Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] each [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had spent most of her own childhood trying to persuade her parents to fall in love with each other and known how little they really cared for each other or for her , but until recently she had not realised how little real love there had been in her own marriage . |
| 2 | He then wired through each hole a Christmas tree light bulb connected to a battery and a bell-push button . |
| 3 | ‘ They lived for each other , they leaned on each other , they helped each other , they worked for each other . |
| 4 | Their main pleasure seemed to be in the beautiful garments they made for each other and for their children . |
| 5 | The production cost for each box is in the region of £100 and illustrates the commitment behind the complete portfolio of presentational material . |
| 6 | The finance cost for each period should be the dividend rights accruing in respect of the period . |
| 7 | If the paddocks can be topped and harrowed after each grazing , a more even , tussock-free sward can be maintained . |
| 8 | Tonight , Dada and that little girl , whose company he had so much dreaded , had their heads nearly touching as they bent towards each other , she asking , he elaborating . |
| 9 | They behaved towards each other like boys who had been educated at rival private schools . |
| 10 | They behaved towards each other like a couple of newly-frozen ice-cubes . |
| 11 | We developed an understanding of what they thought , what they felt , and how they behaved towards each other . |
| 12 | That the Empire grew in power is certain , but there were civil wars , periods where there was no Emperor , where rival Emperors warred against each other , and times when Orcs and Goblins plundered the lands . |
| 13 | Two lanes north and two lanes south cars poured through in an unbroken line ; container trucks , like cliffsides on the move , whammed into each other 's slipstream . |
| 14 | Noakes was busy hosing down one of the dozen or so grey slate slabs ranged along each wall . |
| 15 | To make the comparison fair , we should have to assume that built into each typist 's chair is a gun , wired up so that if he makes a mistake he is summarily shot , his place being taken by a reserve typist ( squeamish readers may prefer to imagine a spring-loaded ejector seat gently catapulting miscreant typists out of the line , but the gun gives a more realistic picture of natural selection ) . |
| 16 | They crashed into each other and then began to laugh |
| 17 | And moments later the two met face to face — as their cars crashed into each other on a winding single-track road . |
| 18 | Well , the two bumped into each other and the child fell down . |
| 19 | 'E 'd come running from the back garden and we nearly bumped into each other coming round the corner of the 'ouse . |
| 20 | Though it was a chance meeting with Travis when he called at the apartment block , ostensibly to visit Leith and Sebastian , when the two bumped into each other . |
| 21 | As they came down there was a slight mishap as two bumped into each other . |
| 22 | Unfortunately the two verbatim reports of what was said slightly disagreed with each other . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | They are presented in the order of the amount of space devoted to each court case and the immediate aftermath . |
| 25 | Certainly , if we use a ruler or some other simple measure to calculate the amount of speech devoted to each speaker in a typical course book , we find it balances out very nicely . |
| 26 | In terms of the law , the Secretary of State is empowered to lay down all aspects of the curriculum , except for the time devoted to each subject and the style in which it shall be taught . |
| 27 | Here the customer can browse through picture boards devoted to each artist , selecting a style and price to suit , much as one might choose an haute couture outfit . |
| 28 | Limits on space devoted to each record and the number of fields in each record will vary depending on the hardware and software used . |
| 29 | To check whether the relative emphases in the programme get carried over into government priorities , we can count the sentences devoted to each topic and see if these relate over time to spending in various areas . |
| 30 | ‘ They were fortified towns built in the Middle Ages , some by the French and some by the English , from which they preyed on each other , particularly during the Hundred Years ’ War between our countries . |