Example sentences of "'s [noun] and [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Two were pulling each other 's hair and screaming at each other while the men tried to part them . |
2 | Family was Jim and the others ; family was her women 's group and squabbling at two-thirty in the morning about whether women could be said to constitute a separate class because they had a separate relation to the mode of production , while still making each other coffee and giving each other hugs . |
3 | Both are candidates for the Olympic team and Bridge , though the youngest man in the race , rowed in last year 's crew and competed at last year 's world championships in a coxed pair steered by Probert . |
4 | These diverging tendencies in Nizan 's life-style , on the one hand a genuine aspiration towards a communist future , on the other hand a residual implication in a bourgeois past , were symptomatic of a " tension " in Nizan 's life and work at this time , a " tension " that was resolved only in late 1932 and early 1933 , when he became a permanent official entrusted with the task of compiling the weekly " notes de lecture " in L'Humanite and of supervising the party newspaper 's bookshop located at 120 rue Lafayette . |
5 | Every morning Vic drives over the flattened site of his Gran 's house and passes at chimney-pot level the one in which he himself grew up , where his widower father still stubbornly lives on in spite of all Vic 's efforts to persuade him to move , like a sailor clinging to the rigging of a sinking ship — buffeted , deafened and choked by the thundering torrent of traffic thirty yards from his bedroom window . |
6 | Up until this moment of opening the door of Dad 's house and looking at these three men , I had experienced very little prejudice in life either . |