Example sentences of "[verb] at [det] other " in BNC.
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| 1 | Memory and imagination were grappling at each other 's throats , and these people would lose if he lay here much longer . |
| 2 | So when staff are literally fuming at each other , and wanting to sue , the simple solution is to install an electrostatic air filter . |
| 3 | A taxi driver told Gloucester Crown Court that he saw two drivers laughing at each other as they roared past him nose-to-tail just before the crash . |
| 4 | James is a good teacher and we have great fun laughing at each other 's mistakes . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A group of like-minded individuals used to meet at each other 's house on a Monday nearest the full moon . |
| 7 | Everyone looks at each other , and somebody finally says : ‘ Floyd says you 'll drop dead in a year . ’ |
| 8 | Everyone looks at each other with the blank expression reserved especially for when someone who is off their trolley comes into the near vicinity . |
| 9 | The two then fenced at each other with their beaks , each parrying the other 's thrust . |
| 10 | Drums began pounding , and several seemingly frail old men launched into a frenzied war-dance , prancing and stabbing at each other with their kerises . |
| 11 | Sam and Rose mouthed at each other : ‘ Candle by the bed , ’ and nodded . |
| 12 | They had looked at each other , disconcerted at this apparent lack of liaison , but McLeish had been reassuring : very natural that they had n't compared notes , extremely useful that he now knew how long the car had been there . |
| 13 | The way she looked at them was odd , because there was no story here as yet , no drama whose next development or twist of plot or big scene we were all awaiting ; remember , they had not yet met or even looked at each other . |
| 14 | It had been gentle , a sweet , surprised discovering , and they had looked at each other shyly afterwards , unable to speak . |
| 15 | The girls had looked at each other curiously and Antonia had trailed obediently after the older woman . |
| 16 | The boys around him had looked at each other . |
| 17 | Letters like these are worthy of recording , especially when the writer from Camberley finished with a p.s. that concludes ‘ As a satisfied customer , needless to say I have not even looked at any other . ’ |
| 18 | They did n't even glance at each other when greeted by traditional musicians dressed in 14th-Century attire , and their suite at the Seoul Hyatt Hotel has two bedrooms . |
| 19 | She saw them glance at each other and exchange a conspiratorial arching of the eyebrows , compounded in Miller 's case by the faintest of nods . |
| 20 | Now the allies are tearing at each other in a savage grab for territory . |
| 21 | Ludens and Irina jostled each other , shouted at each other , chattered to each other , argued a lot , laughed a lot . |
| 22 | This time , the couple still shouted at each other , but were open and honest about how they felt . |
| 23 | Rushing about the Rante , attached like Siamese twins by a synch-pulse cable , tripping over and swearing at each other , burying our heads for mysterious minutes in black film-changing bags , endlessly sticking our noses into other people 's business was a cause for considerable levity amongst the participants . |
| 24 | Lasting impressions so far : the sun ( miraculously ) shining on the slopes of Dalwhinnie , far in the north , on the first leg of the journey ; stumbling across Drew from the World Cup holiday in a motorway café somewhere in England in the middle of the night ; breakfast and mineral water with Claire ( oh , it was good to see her ) in an Italian cafe near London Victoria ; people throwing up all over the joint on the Seacat crossing to Boulogne ( and me staggering about , legs way out of control , on the deck , getting soaked by the spray , saltwater taste in the mouth , and a rainbow arcing on top of the water behind the catamaran ) ; complaining English and American tourist ( ‘ It 's ridiculous that we have to go through customs — why do we have to go through customs anyway ? … ) ; terrible fatigue on the train to Paris , and temperamental French men shouting and swearing at each other in the aisle ; relief at finding Angela 's flat in Paris ; difficult negotiation of the very narrow stairwell , finally finding her way at the top on the 6th floor ; food , and wine , and a shower , and a bed-settee for the night ; Japanese tourists at Notre Dame , and a man announcing his state of poverty and homelessness on the Métro — ‘ ‘ . |
| 25 | They stood swearing at each other , both aware that everyone was watching . |
| 26 | She thought they must have looked ridiculous , two people over thirty surreptitiously clawing at each other through layer upon layer of raincoat , wool and cotton . |
| 27 | To others , for whom the signals of the year are equally important , progress is marked by that dramatic change in the lifestyle of the jays , the feathered brigands of many splendoured tints who are , for most of the year , the vocally irritable members of the crow family , shrieking at each other and at any intruder in their territory . |
| 28 | The noise in the taproom stilled for a moment , even the farmers in the corner drunkenly arguing about the price of wheat ; two harridans from the town shrieking at each other over an upturned barrel ; and a group of young bloods , garishly dressed in costly silks , noisily roistering before a night out on the town . |
| 29 | Again the two brothers were pushing at each other and as they all mounted the steps Ellen stepped and walked by the side of her son , something she was in the habit of doing whenever they were in company , and which Joe had been aware of from the time she had recovered after his uncle 's death . |
| 30 | He thought he might as well look over his skiing equipment , instead of listening to his parents snapping at each other . |