Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] at each [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But worse still , just as the Poet and the Mistress connived at each other 's deception in 138 , just as the Poet connived at the Friend 's deception in 93 , so in 112 the Poet is inviting the Friend to complete the circle : ‘ For what care I who calls me well or ill , /So you o'er-green my bad , my good allow ? ’ |
| 2 | A communication gap occurs at each juncture where an idea may be dropped . |
| 3 | Bevan favoured Barnes 's route ; it was shorter , cheaper and , despite the lock climbs at each end , less complicated than Telford 's . |
| 4 | The shores rang to the sound of his skates against the ice , a resonant hollow warble drawn at each stride from the depths of the lake . |
| 5 | Smooth the lining out flat again , then turn in the sides of the lining and pin it to the curtains , leaving a 2.5cm ( 1in ) margin of curtain fabric showing at each side . |
| 6 | There 's that one of the man and the woman in the boat smiling at each other . |
| 7 | The consistency check looks at each reading . |
| 8 | All the equipment used at each session is new and sterile and never re-used . |
| 9 | What differs between projects is the complexity and scope of work required at each step . |
| 10 | The noise in the taproom stilled for a moment , even the farmers in the corner drunkenly arguing about the price of wheat ; two harridans from the town shrieking at each other over an upturned barrel ; and a group of young bloods , garishly dressed in costly silks , noisily roistering before a night out on the town . |
| 11 | A proportional tax levied at each date on consumption plus wealth transfers would therefore have the same base as a tax on lifetime income : and the same would not be true of a tax on current income ( ) , where A denotes assets held . |
| 12 | He did n't even try to kiss her , which was very noticeable , as they spent most of the evening staring at each other , feeling electricity crackle between them every time they accidentally touched , and , by the time Rachel left , her stomach was clenched in a knot of intolerable excitement . |
| 13 | Her confidence grew at each visit . |
| 14 | The curve obtained at each temperature is shifted by an amount |
| 15 | If you put the N1 cam in the centre of the machine , you will get four complete repeats and a quarter repeat at each edge ( Fig. 2 ) . |
| 16 | The language competence accredited at each level can be described as follows : |
| 17 | James is a good teacher and we have great fun laughing at each other 's mistakes . |
| 18 | Along at Moness House James Flemyng and his wife looked at each other apprehensively and wondered if it was time to bar the shutters . |
| 19 | Husband and wife looked at each other , then the wife said , ‘ Our daughter is handicapped . |
| 20 | ‘ We 'll have the pair of you spending the day waving at each other from railway trains at this rate . |
| 21 | In the absence of any added protein , strand breakage occurs at each position with approximately the same efficiency ( Fig. 4 , lanes 2 and 7 ) . |
| 22 | Elizabeth and I used with amusement to look at each other 's horoscope in the newspapers , but without credulity : I explained to her that even if one believed in astrology they must be regarded as nonsense , being entirely unscientific and paying no attention to the hour of birth and therefore to the ‘ rising sign ’ . |
| 23 | My mother and father looked at each other . |
| 24 | Child and woman looked at each other with the same wonder and wariness , attracted and afraid . |
| 25 | Mr Utterson and the inspector looked at each other . |
| 26 | When he came to Noreen , Paddy stopped , and brother and sister stared at each other . |
| 27 | ‘ Can I … go for a walk in the garden while I think it over ? ’ she blurted , and brother and sister looked at each other . |
| 28 | The target date should be set against these events and progress monitored at each stage . |
| 29 | It could be measured by the width of a coach with a man walking at each side , but even so it was wider than the streets and alleys leading off from both sides of it . |
| 30 | No bomb was found after a search of the ground with tracker dogs and when the game eventually started over a hour late , both teams , level at 1–1 after the first leg went at each other in an explosive start . |