Example sentences of "be [verb] to [det] other " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sixteen coffees , ’ she announced in the cool voice that they seemed to be using to each other , ‘ followed by — er — ’ Consulting her list , she continued , ‘ Six rounds of toast , five boiled eggs with soldiers … ’ |
| 2 | 3 The compartments should be joined to each other by corridors . |
| 3 | Pointers of the same type can be assigned to each other . |
| 4 | I saw now what I 'd known all the time , only I 'd hidden it craftily from myself because it did n't fit in with what I wanted to do , that Terry and I had no basis for a love-affair ; we were friends who happened to be attracted to each other physically , which was far from enough , and by thinking it was enough we 'd gone against the very nature of our relationship . |
| 5 | Look , sit down , have a cup of tea , let's be civilized to each other at least . ’ |
| 6 | Individual nerve cells , muscle cells and secreting cells operate on such precisely similar principles that knowledge from one species can be transferred to all others . |
| 7 | Secondly , although certainly important , the current preference by some writers to relate creativity to the affective forms of psychosis should not divert us from the fact that it is actually schizophrenia which has inspired most of the theorising — and generated a good deal of the empirical evidence — about how psychotic and creative traits might be related to each other . |
| 8 | The first manner in which objects may be related to each other is as type-tokens . |
| 9 | All of the forms within one database can be related to each other . |
| 10 | The underlying concept is that pairs of sentences that have constituents in common can be related to each other by a linguistic transformation . |
| 11 | The various moduli can be related to each other in a simple manner , because an isotropic body is considered to possess only two independent elastic constants and so |
| 12 | If bees can communicate distances and directions , corrected for wind variations , by their waggle dance on the side of the honeycomb , then may not the birds and other creatures be communicating to each other , in some considerable detail , those things relevant to their personal realities ? |
| 13 | Claud Lorrain sometimes painted that celestial luminary in his pictures , but , if not , the sun was but little out of it — a choice generally to be preferred to all others . ’ |
| 14 | The latter two did not appear to be speaking to each other , and Sid and Algernon were prowling round each other like lean and hungry panthers waiting for an opportunity to strike . |
| 15 | The structure of the ‘ curriculum for all ’ rests fundamentally on the Conservative government 's intention to locate children in standardised hierarchies of achievement in each subject throughout their school career , so that they could be compared to each other , their teachers ' performance compared to that of other teachers and their schools ' standards set against their competitors in the marketplace . |
| 16 | So for that reason the two must be introduced to each other and become acquainted . |
| 17 | The hotel or hall staff can arrange chairs , drinks , and someone to direct and greet the late arrivals , who can then view the wedding presents , or be introduced to each other until a suitable moment arrives for them to enter the dining hall . |
| 18 | Those that are still up do at least seem to be talking to each other ! |
| 19 | Would they be talking to each other ? |
| 20 | They might be talking to each other . |