Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] at each " in BNC.

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1 So far as I can reconstruct events , I was gazing at the water jug when the exchange started ; I discovered I was smiling when I realized that Anne was watching me ; whereupon I looked at her interrogatively ; she looked at the water jug with a slight frown ; Millie glanced at each of us in turn , then picked up her dessert spoon and studied that instead ; I watched her smiling at the spoon ; which made me start smiling again ; which made Anne start looking at me again ; which … kept us all occupied throughout the main course .
2 Scott glanced at each of the policemen in turn , then motioned to the chairs close to his desk .
3 Giant voices boomed at each other .
4 Juliet and David looked at each other .
5 He and Branson looked at each other with the candour of two people who know they are utterly different , but for one shared resolution .
6 He and Valerie looked at each other as cordially as two people who loathe each other can .
7 Jenny and Antony looked at each other , brown eyes unblinkingly fixed on blue , over the rims of their upraised pint pots .
8 Jenny and Antony looked at each other dubiously .
9 The two gentlemen looked at each other , then turned away from the house and walked on .
10 The Sherman brothers looked at each other in silence .
11 Tam scrabbled at each pair of legs in turn , remembering the biscuits ; the more uninhibited guests kicked , furtively .
12 And she and Marie smiled at each other , like conspirators .
13 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 .
14 The parents glanced at each other and Mrs Hobden nodded slowly .
15 Frank looked at each of them in turn , then sighed .
16 Karr and Chen looked at each other , some sign of understanding passing between them , then Karr looked back at Haavikko .
17 Mary and Reggie looked at each other , at her , and went hastily into their bedroom .
18 Katherine looked at each face in turn .
19 " When he went upstairs to change for dinner , Lady Agatha and Fidelma looked at each other . "
20 Her confidence grew at each visit .
21 Algernon and Heinrich glanced at each other .
22 Sam and Rose mouthed at each other : ‘ Candle by the bed , ’ and nodded .
23 Mahmoud and Owen looked at each other , then with one accord started walking .
24 Along at Moness House James Flemyng and his wife looked at each other apprehensively and wondered if it was time to bar the shutters .
25 Husband and wife looked at each other , then the wife said , ‘ Our daughter is handicapped .
26 Sam and Rose looked at each other and at the dark , empty square .
27 The remaining gangtypes looked at each other .
28 We three males looked at each other , then meekly trooped to the circular dining table laid out near the window .
29 Talbot and Van Gelder looked at each other in silence , then bent forward over Theodore 's shoulders to look at the figures he had added up .
30 The word was high-pitched and the sisters glanced at each other and laughed in their different keys , and they all repeated together , ‘ Me ? ’ and Belle , looking from Rene to Florence , said , ‘ Who does she think is going to wear it , one of us ? ’
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