Example sentences of "between [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The little girl answered and the conversation flowed between them for a while ; the little boy did n't say anything . |
| 2 | It recognized that there was a National Health Service and a private sector and , rather than arguing that one should be taken over by the other , proposed sensible cooperation between them for the benefit of patients . |
| 3 | Silence fell between them for a few steps , then he said , his tone slightly different , ‘ I 've heard on the grapevine that you came to Glasgow from Heymouth , and that you were involved in the disaster there last August . ’ |
| 4 | And two companies with strong Australian transport interests , Britannic Shipping and Playmaker , have agreed sponsorship deals worth nearly £100,000 a year between them for the next three years . |
| 5 | PAUL Hodkinson and Colin McMillan are demanding £500,000 between them for a world featherweight title showdown . |
| 6 | The only objects in the entire room were two upturned wooden boxes to serve as chairs and a third box between them for a table . |
| 7 | But Daphne 's dear familiarity , the pleasure of her company , the comfort of knowing pretty well what she would say in response to any remark , the whole warm , easy , ancient closeness that had subsisted between them for more than half a century , won over Cecilia 's temporary , though profound , embarrassment . |
| 8 | Piper squirmed between them for a moment , fighting to get free , then went limp . |
| 9 | On each side were stalls heaped with fruit , vegetables , fish and other staples , behind which strapping black-shawled women bawled produce and price , oblivious of the packs of snarling dogs and ragged children lunging in and out between them for whatever scraps they could scavenge . |
| 10 | Therefore price competition between them for the right to sell to the retailers would drive price to marginal cost . |
| 11 | They were presented by the Treasury with £1,000 between them for their services . |
| 12 | The implied criticism hung in the air between them for a few moments . |
| 13 | It was the first physical contact between them for four years , but for just an instant it had seemed as if it had only been yesterday when she had last touched him . |
| 14 | That last dangerous statement seemed to hang in the sunlit air between them for a very long time . |
| 15 | Yet Dysart 's expression reminded him of something else she had said : that Dysart and Clare had been arguing immediately before the explosion ; that there had been friction between them for some time . |
| 16 | Mark Williams and John Austin from Pest Control Oxford have a competition running between them for sales up until the year end . |
| 17 | Although the KDP were also in revolt at the same time , there were too many differences between them for there to be any prospect of co-ordinated action . |
| 18 | There 's been a distinct froideur between them for months . |
| 19 | Nuri was one of Egypt 's great landowners and the Khedive considered there was sufficient identity of interest between them for him to be able to use Nuri 's services without fear . |
| 20 | This emerged as the Butt Report and was immediately rejected out of hand by the incumbent Commander-in-Chief , Bomber Command , but not so by the Army and Navy to whom the report had been leaked and who were bent on carving Bomber Command up between them for their desperate needs in the Western Approaches and in the war in the desert . |
| 21 | Travis must have discovered her disappearance by now , and with a sinking heart she realised she had n't put nearly enough distance between them for safety . |
| 22 | The players have now scored 70 goals between them for Rangers in all competitions this season , though McCoist was jocularly chided by his manager as he attempted to reply to the unanswerable question , posed him by a foreign journalist , of how many goals he expected to score tonight . |
| 23 | ‘ There 's been one thing understood between us for years and that was that you were to be discreet . |