Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] each " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , I should stress , was a successful conversation — and the example could of course be extended , to include the times when we talked simultaneously , or interrupted each other , or gave multiple answers to the same question , as well as the times when there was unintelligibility , resulting from two of the four participants talking with their mouth full — but I leave all these to your imagination . |
| 2 | When you see those wildlife programmes on telly they 're all either fucking or eating each other . |
| 3 | In the first phase the therapist will be assessing the structure of the family , current communication patterns , how family members either support or undermine each other , and the ability of the family to address problems . |
| 4 | It is big enough for the bands to circle without getting in each other 's way or drowning each other out . |
| 5 | Table 1 provides information on how many of the referrals started in or out-of-hours each month . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , the possibility remains that , as Wallace argued , many of the sex differences in plumage and coloration ascribed by Darwin to the action of female choice may have evolved because they help the sexes to recognize or locate each other or because they improve male success in competitive interactions . |
| 7 | Stevenson is also anxious that we should not dismiss with contempt the more completely non-rational aspects of ethical discussion in which we affect each other 's ethical attitudes by the use of emotive language or influence each other 's emotions in other ways which do not require the mediation of rationally based changes in belief . |
| 8 | Wipe with a damp cloth and grill them , or top each one with a spoonful of stuffing , then bake . |
| 9 | A relatively small number of people , about 180 to 200 , are admitted or discharged each year , compared with the 200,000 or so people admitted to ordinary Health Service psychiatric units . |
| 10 | Next to them stood the second rank of drinkers , ‘ troops ’ of the gangs , not yet vicious enough to challenge the leaders or even each other , unless they were mob-handed . |
| 11 | Around a million kitchens are purchased or upgraded each year in Great Britain . |
| 12 | Mark your caravan by etching or engraving each window with your postcode . |
| 13 | Particularly strong articulative relationships are established when what we can call ‘ cross-connotation ’ takes place : that is , when two or more different elements are made to connote , symbolize or evoke each other . |
| 14 | And we should not oppress or surrender each other . |
| 15 | And this shifting between the past and almost- present is equally felt in the choreography — it contains some of the cleanest , most authoritative classical dance Page has produced while simultaneously suggesting modern bodies and modern mores in the way the dancers loll negligently on the floor or challenge each other 's strength . |
| 16 | People can not smell or touch each other , so new devices are needed to give the impression that people are in the room . |
| 17 | You could have sex in front of mirrors ; take Polaroids and videos ; or watch each other jerking off … |
| 18 | The unpleasant notion of children as the ‘ property ’ of their parents — or as ‘ objects ’ over whom adults assert or contest each other 's rights is abandoned in favour of a term which emphasizes the obligations they have towards their children . |
| 19 | The Bishop of Chester saw them as the solution to the problem of reconciling " manual labour and spiritual instruction " in a way so " as not to interfere with or obstruct each other " . |
| 20 | He also imagined men photographed in colour , sprawled alone or holding each other , doing extraordinary things but in ordinary rooms , living rooms ; doing things on sofas , on sheepskin rugs , stretched across a coffee table . |
| 21 | They may argue as a point of fact that , to carry on a taxable ‘ business ’ ( or ‘ economic activity ’ — the terminology in the EC 's Sixth Directive , Art 4(1) and ( 2 ) ) and so use the partial exemption rules , the person must do more than just sell a mere , say , £5 worth of food , drink , tobacco , matches , magazines , books , postcards , camera films , audio or video tapes , cassettes , compact discs , records , sunglasses or combs each year . |
| 22 | The second and more common approach involves breaking or segmenting each cursive word into sub-parts . |
| 23 | These interfere with each other , cancelling each other out or reinforcing each other to produce bigger waves . |
| 24 | He is right to warn of such dangers , but they are more likely where leading indicators are set in some general , non-rigorous way without carefully developing a model of what is needed , and by when , to improve or maintain each SBU 's competitive strengths . |
| 25 | put it in the shop window in New York on St Patrick 's Day along with forty shades of green paperweights , the lacquered shillelaghs , and the wonderful world of deedeelee eedeelee eedeelee Irishness ; skipping dancing jolly little leprechauns in bright buckled shoes and battered hatted bow legged bright red drunken faced gombeen men with little devils in their laughing Irish eyes , mischievous gossipy white haired old women with shawls , pure white skinned colleens skipping carefree through green fields dutifully ready to return in an instant to domestic chores , strapping athletic lads with fine belts and sturdy boots ever willing to put in a fair day 's work or hit each other a clout . |
| 26 | or plugged each other with their fingers , |
| 27 | By Faraday 's time , the problem was more acute ; electrically charged objects were known to repel or attract each other , as did magnetic poles . |
| 28 | With the best will in the world many cases have to be withdrawn or discontinued each year . |
| 29 | Superposition is of the essence of waves , which can be added together to reinforce or cancel each other out . |
| 30 | If I close one slit the pattern disappears since there are no longer two sets of crests and troughs to reinforce or cancel each other . |