Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [prep] each other " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather they rely not only to some extent upon judgement and intuition about the future , but also upon personal negotiations and bargaining between the executives , who may be competing with each other for scarce resources and may each be supporting their case with OR and economic models . |
| 2 | They would be competing with each other in the canopy for exactly the same sunlight , but they would all have ‘ paid ’ much smaller growing costs to get into the canopy . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 … ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You will be checking on each other . ’ |
| 5 | If you switch sides , the characters , judging by their eyelines , will no longer appear to be looking at each other . |
| 6 | The opening round of fixtures brings together fierce rivals Pegasus and Portadown on Saturday , and two of Ireland 's rising young starts , Lyndsey McVicar and Claire McMahon — who will be training alongside each other for most of the season in preparation for the finals but who will face each other in the first league fixture — went along to the Ulster Garages at Belfast 's Boucher Road , to help launch details . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | The implication at the beginning of the text is that the lord feels his worldly duty and his love for God to be pulling against each other and unbalancing him : The state to which Hilton hopes to point him is one of discretion in which self-knowledge and the love of God are the means of integrating what seem like opposites in equilibrium . |
| 9 | Aware , as she most certainly was , that she could not be pleased to see him — grief , if past experience was anything to go by , they 'd no doubt be going for each other 's throats before the meal was half over — Leith returned to the kitchen and prepared some salad . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We seemed to be running against each other in some complex obstacle race . |
| 12 | Bristol and Coventry happened to be playing against each other . |
| 13 | Those that are still up do at least seem to be talking to each other ! |
| 14 | Would they be talking to each other ? |
| 15 | They might be talking to each other . |
| 16 | What 's more , if our marriage were of public interest , I 'm sure that our friends would be falling over each other to tell appalling stories of our life together ( albeit anonymously ) : The arguments , the forgotten anniversaries , the time I threw a carafe of red wine across the room at him , that awful day when he mislaid the baby . |
| 17 | If all the Romanies in the forest try to squeeze into fifty acres we 'll be falling over each other all the time and there 'll be fighting like no one 's ever seen . |
| 18 | We do n't want to be tripping over each other . |