Example sentences of "on [adj] other 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jay giggled along with him , they cried on each other 's shoulders and , every week or so over cocktails , swore to marry each other . |
| 2 | Territorial disputes give rise to elaborate tournaments in which workers extend their legs to walk on stilts and drum their antennae on each other 's abdomens . |
| 3 | But that will make AT&T 's service and equipment-manufacturing businesses step on each other 's toes again . |
| 4 | When we came out of the Clerecia , after dipping hands in the holy water stoup and placing a drop on each other 's brows , as we had seen the novios and novias do ( the boy on entering a church would dip his hand in the water and transfer a drop to his fiancée 's fingertip so that they could cross themselves in unison ) , we would go into La Casa de las Conchas next to the Clerecia , with elaborate wrought-iron window-grilles and its tranquil courtyard , and sit there quietly for a while , thinking of the next poem , or of the one we were working on . |
| 5 | The whole pretence about his future plans does not belong to relations between brothers , especially brothers who have just wept on each other 's shoulders , and who have shown each other such surprising willingness for reunion . |
| 6 | Jostling , raspberrying and treading on each other 's toes , they crowded round their officer to hear what he had to say . |
| 7 | The families of North Tynedale in westernmost Northumberland — Charltons and Robsons , Milburns and Dodds — were never slow to lay hands on each other 's property in the lawless old days . |
| 8 | This tended to give a certain bias to the work likely to be found in schools , especially as the coterie of advisers who knew each other 's work well , often teaching on each other 's courses and jointly helping to tutor the national D.E.S . |
| 9 | She could have asked for the moon , and seen the clansmen climb on each other 's shoulders to reach it down for her . |
| 10 | Come down with a hand on each other 's shoulders . |
| 11 | Funny thing how people can get on each other 's nerves down here . |
| 12 | When Karen and I used to feast on each other 's bodies , Dennis was the unseen guest at the table . |
| 13 | The world closed quickly in on them and was limited to the gleam and crackle of the dying fire before them , to the firelight on each other 's faces , and the pale darkness of the sky above them scattered with stars . |
| 14 | They still played sickening games that I could n't avoid , like putting sperm on each other 's nose and calling one another Merkin and Muffin , for God 's sake . |
| 15 | But I do n't want us to tread on each other 's toes . |
| 16 | ‘ They 'll get on each other 's nerves , ’ she said to herself , ‘ they 'll do nothing but fight . |
| 17 | The crowd are climbing on each other 's shoulders to get close to them and the hippychicks are dancing acid-trip hand jives in pairs . |
| 18 | We have n't set up a company , we 're just going to work on each other 's customer base and then take the value proposition to the market . |
| 19 | They lay together , their bodies bathed in sweat , their hearts beating a tattoo on each other 's chests . |
| 20 | Rather than looking for formal ‘ truth conditions ’ in an utterance , Rommetveit prefers to start from H. James ' point ‘ we trade on each other 's truths ’ ( Rommetveit , 1982 ) . |
| 21 | The chief problems of the NEA the attempt to please every constituency , the absence of firm administrative control , an ossified panel system rife with artists and administrators sitting in judgment on each other 's grants , even if not on their own , and above all , the lack of a clearly articulated policy as to what should be supported remain , and will surely bedevil anyone brought in to run the agency . |
| 22 | It will alter the way in which doctors , nurses , and other professionals work ( not least in making them rely more on each other 's information ) . |
| 23 | There is no space here for a full account of her system , but its key characteristics are phases of ( a ) free associations with the topic , ( b ) reflections on each other 's associations , ( c ) collaborative reformulation of prior knowledge . |
| 24 | They certainly pay close attention to one another 's progress , frequently glancing from side to side to check on each other 's position . |
| 25 | Everyone was getting on each other 's nerves , and there was tension all the time . |
| 26 | Co-operative R&D ventures are a way of internalizing these spillovers ( eliminating the ability of rival firms to free ride on each other 's R&D ) , and can , therefore , be expected to increase total R&D activity . |
| 27 | But the effect that people with mental disorder and their relatives have on each other 's lives is a critical factor in community care . |
| 28 | Perhaps appropriately , given the inflammatory nature of the effect Gav and Janice seemed to have on each other 's glands , it was called Red Heat . |
| 29 | They and their guests never get on each other 's nerves , because they have self-contained accommodation in what used to be the barns and outhouses . |
| 30 | Two needy people in competition for caring are more likely to end up bitter , hostile and dissatisfied , when what they most need to do is weep on each other 's shoulders . |