Example sentences of "competed [prep] [det] other " in BNC.

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1 They competed against each other in business and in the show ring but each respected the other 's knowledge of horses .
2 While in 1965 at the Spencer Churchill sale top examples were changing hands for around £600 , and in the 1970s in the low thousands , the prices at the Castle Ashby sale shot up into the hundred thousands for the first time as new collectors , both Greek and American , competed against each other .
3 Unlike the November general election when the BJP and the Janata Dal ( the main component of the National Front ) had generally agreed on seat adjustments in the Congress heartlands , the two parties competed against each other in many of the February state elections , often creating a three-cornered contest .
4 The teams competed against each other ( and a freak heatwave ) to make the highest profits for their branch , and the eventual winners were Ireland , with England runners-up , Wales third and Scotland fourth .
5 Single capacity was supposed to reduce conflicts of interest as brokers found the best prices from jobbers for their clients and jobbers competed amongst each other to produce fair prices .
6 In some instances , the followings of different leaders competed with each other for different favours .
7 The version Cranko first appears in 1850 , but the two versions competed with each other at least until the end of the decade .
8 As we have seen , some of the earlier and more enthusiastic apologists for pluralism , such as Dahl and Plamenatz , did suggest both that the spread of pressure and interest groups covered more or less the whole of society and also that such groups competed with each other on a roughly equal basis .
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