Example sentences of "[vb past] with [adj] other " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately the two verbatim reports of what was said slightly disagreed with each other . |
| 2 | He also had the confidence of the new king , George V , and of his two private secretaries , Francis , first Viscount Knollys , and Sir Arthur Bigge ( later Baron Stamfordham ) [ qq.v. ] , who disagreed with each other on the constitutional issue . |
| 3 | Numerous factions squabbled with each other and among themselves . |
| 4 | Questions were raised in the House of Commons about a group of local hippies arrested early in 1967 , and local MPs vied with each other to be in the vanguard of efforts to control the ‘ army of secret drug takers in the area … ( who need to be ) brought back from the brink of madness ’ ( Newcastle Evening Chronicle : 27 February 1967 ) . |
| 5 | BOHUNT and Mill Chase pupils vied with each other in a closely-fought end-of-term contest to win a place in the final of a quiz sponsored by Hampshire Racial Equality Council and the county education authority . |
| 6 | Under attack on all sides , not least from the infant population which was itself unwittingly helping to spread disease through the narrow streets and alleys of the town , some Frome people found a temporary escape in one or other of the forty or more pubs which vied with each other for custom ; drunkenness was commonplace , and many of those who did n't go to an early grave with some infection or other departed this life with a putrid liver . |
| 7 | The companies vied with each other to find new settings for the basic story-lines and messages that they had to put over . |
| 8 | While the sibling competition was an inevitable part of growing-up , far less bearable was the growing parental rivalry , conscious or not , as Frances and Johnnie vied with each other to win the love of their children . |
| 9 | They frequently inhabited the same Soho haunt but at Muriel 's , where they vied with each other in buying bottles of champagne , they often occupied different ends of the room . |
| 10 | He reminds the visitor that so famed were Swiss soldiers for their heroism that monarchs vied with each other to hire them , and that the Swiss guards of Louis XVI died to a man in his defence when the mob stormed the Royal Palace in August 1792 . |
| 11 | The nearest town was sufficiently far north to be a pie place , and nearly all the shops — the butchers , the bakers , the grocers , the solitary delicatessen — vied with each other in the quantity and variety of their pies . |
| 12 | Cities vied with each other to build more beautiful towers . |
| 13 | The presence of tattoo shops , ‘ topless ’ discothèques which offered dancing and music almost twenty-four hours a day were a reminder that Copenhagen was an active and important port , yet the overall effect was charming and romantic as flowers spilled out of window-boxes and the cafés and restaurants vied with each other to attract custom by the quality of their food and their individual décor . |
| 14 | The traditional political " families " still vied with each other in pursuance of their particular objectives ; but the old clans of Catholics , monarchists and Falangists were now joined by a new breed of apolitical technocrat and a new kind of Falangist . |
| 15 | They vied with each other to fill me in on the gruesome details . |
| 16 | This means a shed full of aquariums and two ponds interconnected with each other with a total water capacity of around 2000 gallons . |
| 17 | In business they conferred with each other for a few minutes and then made their offer . |
| 18 | Loud French pop music howled out of a cassette recorder and everybody danced with each other to a song which was in the charts at the time , . |
| 19 | Blake noticed that people used more than words when they communicated with each other , and realised that horses did the same . |
| 20 | Theodora paused to speculate how , since a Holy Week retreat at St Sylvester 's would almost certainly be conducted in silence , these two communicated with each other . |
| 21 | Its leaders were local magnates who co-operated with each other by exchanging and transporting stolen cattle . |
| 22 | By the early 1940s , the influence of Orson Welles and William Wyler as directors , together with Gregg Toland , the innovative lighting cameraman they shared with each other ( and sometimes with John Ford and Howard Hawks too ) , made deep-focus more fashionable . |
| 23 | Bands of yellow light rose and fell across its surface ; diaphanous spokes rotating about rose-hued hubs intermeshed with each other , beautiful reflections of a deeper order within . |
| 24 | He showed that it was possible , starting with a uniform concentration of chemicals which interacted with each other , for the system to develop differences in the concentration of the chemicals , which he called morphogens , such that there would be chemical waves with peaks and troughs of concentration of the morphogens . |
| 25 | In the background to this central theme in his thought lie two major influences upon him which interacted with each other and with the impulses derived from Kant . |
| 26 | Social life for Malinowski was like capitalism for Keynes : ‘ a going concern ’ , in which individuals interacted with each other in pursuit of mutually rewarding transactions . |
| 27 | To make the principle of representation effective , the regime had to create institutions in which the various social orders interacted with each other . |
| 28 | My conflicting thoughts argued with each other from pavement to pavement . |
| 29 | They bantered and argued with each other , laughed raucously , became angry and fell into sulks , changing moods as quickly and as unpredictably as children . |
| 30 | These drops of water argued with each other all day long . |