Example sentences of "[vb past] to [adj] other " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their voices rose , pure and distinct in the clear air as they laughed and shouted to each other . |
| 2 | She was being carried into strange , alien territory , grim and bleak , in and out of stations with unfamiliar names , where the porters shouted to each other in uncouth accents . |
| 3 | There was a roar of assent and the gathering began to stir and kindle into easier feelings — neighbours muttered to each other and laughter came from the Grandtully part of the crowd . |
| 4 | The doctor and the priest , stepping back on the other side of the room , murmured to each other . |
| 5 | The branches above murmured to each other and refracted the light from the street lamps into kaleidoscopic shapes on the pavement , shades of concrete grey , forming and reforming , overlapping and separating . |
| 6 | They snuffled and sighed to each other , beckoning Tabitha , knowing a haulier when they saw one . |
| 7 | So he stood with her , and held her , and very soon nature began to teach them both what to do , and before very long the neighbours heard a little shriek come from Pascoe 's cottage , and the old wives glanced and nodded to each other , content that the marriage had been consummated , and anxious to share with each other reminiscences of their own experiences in similar circumstances . |
| 8 | On TV stations around the world , they coyly nudged and giggled to each other . |
| 9 | WHEN Derry and Fran Dunnett visited Inchcolm Abbey one day last summer they remarked to each other how lucky the abbey 's custodians were to live on the island . |
| 10 | They belonged to each other . |
| 11 | They bowed to each other like Thérèse had to the Virgin . |
| 12 | The way they talked to each other just went to emphasise this . |
| 13 | She felt completely comfortable in her presence , and the two of them talked to each other more or less as equals . |
| 14 | They talked to each other exchanging facts but not communicating . |
| 15 | They talked to each other again , and then the first horse made clear signs for me to follow him . |
| 16 | Dada and Aunt Tossie talked to each other with scarcely a pause , showing a concern for Maman 's silence as though to be silent was to be sick . |
| 17 | Most of the day Jamila and Zahira chatted to each other . |
| 18 | Instead of sitting lost in their own thoughts or sleeping , the patients had been stimulated and they now chatted to each other as they recalled the places , the people or the events of the past . |
| 19 | As a protest some people never really made any attempt to get on with their writing project but just sat there and chatted to each other . |
| 20 | In an attempt to prove they were unaffected by this , they raised their voices as they chatted to each other , and pretended not to glance uneasily at the nearby rectangles of darker , freshly turned earth . |
| 21 | They waved to each other and Sammy immediately shot forwards . |
| 22 | ‘ And we waved to each other last week at the opera . |
| 23 | He chose a route back down the hill that did not involve too many serious gradients , moving from Roseberry Road to Warburton Drive to Chesterton Terrace and , from there , doubling back along a series of streets with an offensively tangible air of esprit de corps — Lowther Park Drive , where people called to each other over their Volvos and , even worse , Stapleton Road , a place that seemed almost permanently on the verge of a street party . |
| 24 | They laughed a little hysterically , and whispered to each other to be quiet and then laughed again , drunk with the joy of touching hands and the scent of their bodies in the dark . |
| 25 | They whispered to each other . |
| 26 | Slowly , they got together at the far end of the house and whispered to each other . |
| 27 | They whispered to each other that Tess was sure to marry that handsome gentleman . |
| 28 | As we have seen above , discount houses and other members of the monetary sector have substantial short-term funds lent to each other . |
| 29 | Silver-blond and red-head , they clung to each other occasionally as long-time friends , and spoke to Nolan , cousin of one , ex-fiancé of the other , with an odd mixture of dread , exasperation and compassion . |
| 30 | They clung to each other , speaking in desperate whispers , sharing the shock and terror of a recently confirmed test result . |