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

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1 Her words tumbled over each other .
2 The words tumbled over each other in her eagerness. ‘ 'T WOULD only be for a day or so while I try to get a message to the Queen .
3 As we have seen above , discount houses and other members of the monetary sector have substantial short-term funds lent to each other .
4 She was being carried into strange , alien territory , grim and bleak , in and out of stations with unfamiliar names , where the porters shouted to each other in uncouth accents .
5 That the Empire grew in power is certain , but there were civil wars , periods where there was no Emperor , where rival Emperors warred against each other , and times when Orcs and Goblins plundered the lands .
6 And moments later the two met face to face — as their cars crashed into each other on a winding single-track road .
7 The two cars slammed into each other several times as they sped along a quiet tree-lined avenue before the youths finally forced her into a garden .
8 The presence of tattoo shops , ‘ topless ’ discothèques which offered dancing and music almost twenty-four hours a day were a reminder that Copenhagen was an active and important port , yet the overall effect was charming and romantic as flowers spilled out of window-boxes and the cafés and restaurants vied with each other to attract custom by the quality of their food and their individual décor .
9 Giant voices boomed at each other .
10 However , many of the new stations began to feature a strongly marked nationalism as the assertive spirits of rival nations jostled with each other and advanced their claims for continental dominance with increasing stridency .
11 The two gentlemen looked at each other , then turned away from the house and walked on .
12 The Sherman brothers looked at each other in silence .
13 Their words ran over each other and they stopped .
14 Unlike the November general election when the BJP and the Janata Dal ( the main component of the National Front ) had generally agreed on seat adjustments in the Congress heartlands , the two parties competed against each other in many of the February state elections , often creating a three-cornered contest .
15 Cities vied with each other to build more beautiful towers .
16 Within it the areas devoted to each will be under the aegis of the respective heads of departments .
17 Numerous factions squabbled with each other and among themselves .
18 The companies vied with each other to find new settings for the basic story-lines and messages that they had to put over .
19 The parents glanced at each other and Mrs Hobden nodded slowly .
20 A sack of empty tins lay beside each aircraft : accumulated cookhouse waste .
21 Social life for Malinowski was like capitalism for Keynes : ‘ a going concern ’ , in which individuals interacted with each other in pursuit of mutually rewarding transactions .
22 As the days meandered into each other she found herself spending all her free time painting , even though she had known almost from the start that painting him was not going to exorcise him .
23 Here the customer can browse through picture boards devoted to each artist , selecting a style and price to suit , much as one might choose an haute couture outfit .
24 Above that were two windows which opened every hour and a procession of Apostles appeared in each window .
25 The version Cranko first appears in 1850 , but the two versions competed with each other at least until the end of the decade .
26 They knew , for example , that in the Coniston Mines where a fault ran into a vein there might be a bunch , or a general enrichment , particularly if two veins ran into each other .
27 There , identical buildings stood on each side of the track .
28 A row of four metal beds stood against each wall .
29 This means a shed full of aquariums and two ponds interconnected with each other with a total water capacity of around 2000 gallons .
30 While officers struggled with each other to improve their own positions they often united to block any attempts at reform by the Crown .
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