Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] at each " in BNC.

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1 A taxi driver told Gloucester Crown Court that he saw two drivers laughing at each other as they roared past him nose-to-tail just before the crash .
2 She turned away , shutting her eyes to adjust them to the darkness , and then with no further hesitation she was going down the rope hand over hand , her feet and knees checking at each knot .
3 Thankful to hear the change in his tone , I responded with a less playful punch , and soon we were on our feet slapping at each other with a wild hilarity , a contest in which inevitably I was the loser .
4 He thought he might as well look over his skiing equipment , instead of listening to his parents snapping at each other .
5 I mostly stood on the sidelines , watching the heavy-weights raging at each other .
6 He sat up , and so did I. We looked at one another like two cats glaring at each other before a fight .
7 Gabriel watched them through the knothole beside his pillow , their gaberdines stretched out above their jerking heads , like two long-legged birds pecking at each other in the rain .
8 In just the same way , evolution consists of genes spreading at each other 's expense , but many , perhaps most , genetic mechanisms are about enforcing common interest of groups of genes over the selfish ambitions of the few .
9 It is not generally known that among the sculptured panels at the top of the Library facade , there is one featuring two children fingerspelling at each other the first two letters of the alphabet .
10 We seemed drowned in dusk ; two men staring at each other .
11 Here were these two sworn enemies screaming at each other through car windows .
12 The train rattled along and we both hung on to the straps looking at each other .
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