Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] each [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A tribunal in The Hague is slowly resolving each country 's claims against the other , including Tehran 's demand for the return of $12billion in military equipment and spare parts which the regime says were paid for but never delivered . |
| 2 | His shadowed eyes roved around , as though he were personally serenading each woman in the room , and Shelley felt a shiver when his glance rested on her neat fair head and blue eyes . |
| 3 | For the famous Mason Pearson pneumatic cushion technique conditions your hair as it brushes , reaching right down to the scalp and firmly but gently caressing each strand to promote shining health and loveliness . |
| 4 | For much of this time the country was in a continual state of war , with the Moors in the south and the Christians in the north constantly invading each others ' borders . |
| 5 | ( Alan Whicker , it seems , was first choice : Palin makes an interesting substitute given the wicked Python parody of Whicker Island : a place full of Alan Whickers endlessly interviewing each other . ) |
| 6 | It does a thorough job of not only testing each part of the hard disk but it also saves any data on the disk while doing so by reading all usable tracks into memory before reformatting the track and then writing it to disk again in the same place — provided it was usable . |
| 7 | By so phrasing each paragraph and bringing each incident to a proper conclusion , Nijinska gives both dancers and audience time to consider what has been done and what is yet to happen . |
| 8 | They sat down together facing each other , her face full of unaccustomed excitement , and then she rose to fetch him a dish to tickle his appetite , six pale gleaming molluscs like oysters , with wedges of lime around them , prettily , and a sprinkling of red pepper over them . |
| 9 | Top : These Apple Snails are not mating — they are , in fact merely grazing each others ' shell . |
| 10 | Under a nearby tree , a group of children were having their school lunch , feverishly jostling each other as they scraped the bottom of a three-legged pot with scraps of bread . |
| 11 | When Drummle stupidly said that he was stronger than any of us , we all protested , foolishly showing each other our muscles to prove how strong we were . |
| 12 | Even by the standards of New York , the primary race for the Democratic presidential nomination has been a shameless charade , with the candidates grotesquely outbidding each other in their hunger for the city 's myriad sectarian votes . |
| 13 | Lucker and myself lie together idly exploring each other 's bodies with the curiosity of two baby elephants who are too young to take advantage of what they have found . |
| 14 | As these changes in electrical potential may be very small in relation to fluctuations in ongoing EEG activity the usual procedure is to use a computer to sum the potentials during the half-second or so following each presentation of the evoking stimulus so as to produce an average value . |
| 15 | The child had landed face down with his shoulders and arms across the railings , and the wickedly sharp spikes had pierced his tiny body in several places , mercifully passing each side of his neck . |
| 16 | Eventually , after a series of confrontations in which both sides seemed curiously reluctant to come to blows , Mar 's and Argyll 's main armies were left uneasily eyeing each other at Stirling , while Mackintosh , around 22 October , joined up at Kelso in Roxburghshire , on the River Tweed , a mere five miles [ 8 km ] short of the Border , with ‘ General ’ Forster 's English rebels , forming a combined force of around 2100 men , of whom 600 were well-armed cavalry . |
| 17 | That 's all they 're thinking on , all just slagging each other off really are n't they . |
| 18 | The EXTREMELY suspect one where they run to each other ( or more likely one sad git runs to the scorer … desperate to get some attention ) , hold hands , trot backwards stroking each others hands in the process ? ? |
| 19 | They go to bed as strangers and then spend the weekend alternately insulting each other and making up , trying to find out if they are fond of each other . |
| 20 | As befits such a highly desirable collection , each plate is individually hand numbered and accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity bearing the same number , thus establishing each plate 's place in the edition . |
| 21 | It 's straight in there there 's a fight between three , two men and a woman , you do n't know what 's going on , they 're just abusing each other and and the picture |
| 22 | Lawn owners have good reason for keeping clear consciences and generally living each day as through it were their last . |
| 23 | And cer the determination of the women , that we were n't gon na be starved back to work , we were n't gon na be forced back to work , we were n't just gon na end in chaos and some of us going back and some of us staying out , I think it was the women possibly talking to their husbands or , and just reassuring each other , you know that helped us no end . |
| 24 | A chance to make a lot of fast , easy cash before finally facing each other as multi-millionaire champions . |
| 25 | It is no good just blaming each other . |
| 26 | ‘ I was just playing each ball on its merits and hoping things went my way , ’ said Arthurton . |
| 27 | At this point all three friends felt an unruly wave of amusement sweeping over them , and the rest of the fire-drill was spent desperately avoiding each other 's eyes in case a fit of the giggles should descend , and they were all agreed ( especially Mildred ) that this would definitely not be the thing to do . |
| 28 | The secret is to hit the edge of the top one with the steel-tipped back edge of your heels and travel all the way down just skimming each stair the same way . |
| 29 | On the continent men were soon killing each other . |
| 30 | They were always touching each other ; they fucked the lecturers and asked them for money for drugs . |