Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [prep] each " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the tucks occur , the stitches that are knitting on each side are pulled upwards , out of shape . |
| 2 | One indication of that was that at the request of the British , both sides agreed to stop the radio propaganda campaigns they have been waging against each other . |
| 3 | These changes in facial colour are the most visible sign that you are reacting to each other . |
| 4 | We are gazing at each other , and it never occurs to us to kiss . |
| 5 | If their full bellies make me fail to recognise my communality with a woman of colour whose children who do not eat , because she ca n't find work ; or a woman who has no children because her insides are rotten from home abortions and sterilisation ; or if I fail to recognise the lesbian who chooses not to have children , or the woman who remains closeted because her homophobic community is her only life support ; the woman who chooses silence instead of another death ; the woman who is terrified lest any anger triggers the explosion of hers ; if I fail to recognise these women as other faces of myself , then I am contributing to each of their oppressions , but also to my own . |
| 6 | Now the allies are tearing at each other in a savage grab for territory . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It seemed incredible to Tug that only five minutes before he had been calling her Ma and they had been grinning at each other . |
| 9 | For a long time now , they have n't been looking at each other . |
| 10 | We 've been writing to each other for eight years but had never met until this year . |
| 11 | The two cousins had been writing to each other in secret for several weeks , and Cathy had used the milkman as a messenger . |
| 12 | Matters are made worse if different selectivity processes are operating for each subgroup . |
| 13 | I think that 's true of the women , but of course an awful lot of our young men erm come from all boys ' schools and quite a lot of our young women from all girls ' schools , so this is the first time , when they get to Oxford , that they are interacting with each other , on a day-to-day basis I should say , and I think that in itself will they are not sure how to act towards each other and there 's going to be confusions . |
| 14 | In 1907 Picasso and Braque had been living near each other in Montmartre for some time , and after 1908 began meeting daily to talk , visit the galleries and museums , and to examine each other 's work . |
| 15 | In the last week , both Protestants and Republicans have been vying with each other to grab the headlines by claiming the 3,000th victim . |
| 16 | HOLLYWOOD producers are scrambling over each other to snap up rights to top-secret data on some of the biggest Cold War spy scandals . |
| 17 | Mr Campbell said that during the first incident , when Mr Friel and the two younger accused had been shouting at each other in the shopping centre , the lawyer had struck the 15-year-old on the face with the dog leash . |
| 18 | Richard Phelps and Graham Brookhouse … they were in the British team at the Olympics in Barcelona … this weekend they 're competing against each other for the British Title in Bedford … |
| 19 | When we finish we 're hanging onto each other . |
| 20 | I says , Well er we 're going about here , the two shunters are going about here and they 're vying with each other to see how much they can ignore me . |
| 21 | You 're you 're telling you 're communicating with each other . |
| 22 | Not to the extent where you 're living in each other 's pockets , it 's just that er you know enough about each other to see if there 's anything out of the ordinary happening . |
| 23 | Now we 're looking for each other . |
| 24 | Right now you 're speaking to each other ? |
| 25 | If you really know what you 're doing on each and every single note in your lead then you 're controlling your solo , as opposed to merely playing a bunch of licks and exercises while trying to land on a cool note here and there . |
| 26 | Twenty-two women , eight washbasins , two toilets , it 's just impossible ; twenty minutes to do all that and bunk your bed as well , and if you 're sleeping in a bunk in a crowded room you 're falling over each other trying to fold your sheets and blankets at the same time . |
| 27 | I 'm happier to stand back and let him do his bit and I 'll do my bit , as long as we 're talking to each other . |
| 28 | You , ho you should ideally all have a ouch , a file like this and , before I pick this up , erm , the best way of organizing your files and just , just take separate bits of paper now , to save yourselves time , is to take separate pieces of paper for the separate topics , that separate people have done , and as you 're talking to each other , begin making notes and adding to , to these different bits . |
| 29 | They and they 're and they 're guzzling they 're fighting with each other and oh . |
| 30 | Now it 's got the three and we 're batting for each other , you know playing on the same side . |