Example sentences of "[vb past] at [adj] other " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the later 1830s the rulers of Prussia and Russia maintained at each other 's courts military plenipotentiaries , high-ranking officers whose role in relations between the two monarchs was often more important than that of any diplomat . |
| 2 | The two then fenced at each other with their beaks , each parrying the other 's thrust . |
| 3 | Sam and Rose mouthed at each other : ‘ Candle by the bed , ’ and nodded . |
| 4 | Ludens and Irina jostled each other , shouted at each other , chattered to each other , argued a lot , laughed a lot . |
| 5 | This time , the couple still shouted at each other , but were open and honest about how they felt . |
| 6 | Beside him Carol watched the modern-day gladiators as they came at each other . |
| 7 | And they nodded at each other , for all the world , Isobel thought , like a pair of well-fed penguins . |
| 8 | As he introduced them , the two women nodded at each other . |
| 9 | The two men nodded at each other . |
| 10 | They were ballroom veterans , bobbing around a tottering couple with rigid elbows who frowned at each other 's feet . |
| 11 | And frowned at each other , as ill-coordinated a double-act as Fanny and Johnny Cradock : it was hard to tell which one found the other most irritating . |
| 12 | They yelled at each other until the car passed erratically between the electric gates of the elegant , much photographed Lewis home and came to a halt on the gravel before the porch . |
| 13 | The colours all yelled at each other ; most of the furniture was cheap and shabby and it was in a clutter of smelly untidiness , but the general effect was of a room somebody had made the best of according to their taste , and enjoyed living in . |
| 14 | Jenny and Antony moved a few inches further apart , then giggled at each other because of the involuntary movement . |
| 15 | They grinned at each other like conspirators . |
| 16 | As they jolted along they grinned at each other , letting out little exaggerated groans of pain every time the unsprung wheels hit a bump in the road . |
| 17 | They grinned at each other . |
| 18 | They all glanced at each other in dismay . |
| 19 | The word was high-pitched and the sisters glanced at each other and laughed in their different keys , and they all repeated together , ‘ Me ? ’ and Belle , looking from Rene to Florence , said , ‘ Who does she think is going to wear it , one of us ? ’ |
| 20 | They both glanced at each other before saying , ‘ Yes ’ together , and when the supervisor said , ‘ Oh , one will do , ’ Maggie on a tired laugh said , ‘ It 's all or nothing . ’ |
| 21 | As we glanced at each other , we shuddered with apprehension . |
| 22 | We glanced at each other , and I pulled a long , apprehensive face . |
| 23 | The girls glanced at each other then Anne smiled cheerfully . |
| 24 | Huy and Merymose glanced at each other , and withdrew . |
| 25 | Algernon and Heinrich glanced at each other . |
| 26 | James and Algernon glanced at each other . |
| 27 | They glanced at each other , and the same recognition struck them both . |
| 28 | Both young men then glanced at each other , clamming up in some embarrassment as they recalled that the fortune they were at this moment vying for had been lost by Benedict Beckenham , for the story of the will was naturally common knowledge among his intimates . |
| 29 | He nodded and there followed an awkward silence where Julie and Nina must have become aware of the tension , for they glanced at each other at the same moment as a patient arrived in the centre . |
| 30 | There was silence as they glanced at each other , and Sophie said irritably , ‘ It 's exactly as I said . |