Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [det] other " 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 | ‘ They lived for each other , they leaned on each other , they helped each other , they worked for each other . |
| 3 | Their main pleasure seemed to be in the beautiful garments they made for each other and for their children . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They behaved towards each other like boys who had been educated at rival private schools . |
| 6 | They behaved towards each other like a couple of newly-frozen ice-cubes . |
| 7 | We developed an understanding of what they thought , what they felt , and how they behaved towards each other . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They crashed into each other and then began to laugh |
| 11 | And moments later the two met face to face — as their cars crashed into each other on a winding single-track road . |
| 12 | The Marxist book I reviewed with several others in The Criterion for October 1937 . |
| 13 | Well , the two bumped into each other and the child fell down . |
| 14 | 'E 'd come running from the back garden and we nearly bumped into each other coming round the corner of the 'ouse . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | As they came down there was a slight mishap as two bumped into each other . |
| 17 | Unfortunately the two verbatim reports of what was said slightly disagreed with each other . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | Their voices rose , pure and distinct in the clear air as they laughed and shouted to each other . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The two then fenced at each other with their beaks , each parrying the other 's thrust . |
| 24 | Sam and Rose mouthed at each other : ‘ Candle by the bed , ’ and nodded . |
| 25 | Ludens and Irina jostled each other , shouted at each other , chattered to each other , argued a lot , laughed a lot . |
| 26 | This time , the couple still shouted at each other , but were open and honest about how they felt . |
| 27 | But why , they asked of each other , should a child like that be under the care of the rag woman ? |
| 28 | Sadie and I gradually learnt about each other . |
| 29 | They danced away from each other , they darted towards each other . |
| 30 | I suspect Greenhill was referring specifically to a dearth in the cultural analysis of policing , while his use of the duality of ‘ sides ’ reveals another parallel binary to that of ‘ cops and robbers ’ , with the police and sociology arraigned against each other in yet another of the wars which the police wage against those who defile the sanctity of their definition of the concept of order . |