Example sentences of "[vb past] to each [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are presented in the order of the amount of space devoted to each court case and the immediate aftermath . |
| 2 | Certainly , if we use a ruler or some other simple measure to calculate the amount of speech devoted to each speaker in a typical course book , we find it balances out very nicely . |
| 3 | In terms of the law , the Secretary of State is empowered to lay down all aspects of the curriculum , except for the time devoted to each subject and the style in which it shall be taught . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Limits on space devoted to each record and the number of fields in each record will vary depending on the hardware and software used . |
| 6 | To check whether the relative emphases in the programme get carried over into government priorities , we can count the sentences devoted to each topic and see if these relate over time to spending in various areas . |
| 7 | Their voices rose , pure and distinct in the clear air as they laughed and shouted to each other . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Built in the days when the knocker-up came to each house to wake the workers , miners could chalk the times of their shifts on the slates so that the knocker-up could let them sleep if they were not due for work when he came by . |
| 10 | There was a roar of assent and the gathering began to stir and kindle into easier feelings — neighbours muttered to each other and laughter came from the Grandtully part of the crowd . |
| 11 | The doctor and the priest , stepping back on the other side of the room , murmured to each other . |
| 12 | The branches above murmured to each other and refracted the light from the street lamps into kaleidoscopic shapes on the pavement , shades of concrete grey , forming and reforming , overlapping and separating . |
| 13 | Mr Goldring added : ‘ What is really significant in this case is not what happened to each child individually , it is that there were so many collapses . ’ |
| 14 | They snuffled and sighed to each other , beckoning Tabitha , knowing a haulier when they saw one . |
| 15 | So he stood with her , and held her , and very soon nature began to teach them both what to do , and before very long the neighbours heard a little shriek come from Pascoe 's cottage , and the old wives glanced and nodded to each other , content that the marriage had been consummated , and anxious to share with each other reminiscences of their own experiences in similar circumstances . |
| 16 | The court was told by an RUC detective constable that when arrested charged and cautioned Wilson replied to each charge : ‘ I know nothing about it . ’ |
| 17 | On TV stations around the world , they coyly nudged and giggled to each other . |
| 18 | WHEN Derry and Fran Dunnett visited Inchcolm Abbey one day last summer they remarked to each other how lucky the abbey 's custodians were to live on the island . |
| 19 | They belonged to each other . |
| 20 | They bowed to each other like Thérèse had to the Virgin . |
| 21 | The way they talked to each other just went to emphasise this . |
| 22 | She felt completely comfortable in her presence , and the two of them talked to each other more or less as equals . |
| 23 | They talked to each other exchanging facts but not communicating . |
| 24 | They talked to each other again , and then the first horse made clear signs for me to follow him . |
| 25 | Dada and Aunt Tossie talked to each other with scarcely a pause , showing a concern for Maman 's silence as though to be silent was to be sick . |
| 26 | What , any other things that you 'd got , but I talked to each group individually , erm but if you want to share any of your thoughts with everybody else I 'm standing in the way . |
| 27 | Most of the day Jamila and Zahira chatted to each other . |
| 28 | Instead of sitting lost in their own thoughts or sleeping , the patients had been stimulated and they now chatted to each other as they recalled the places , the people or the events of the past . |
| 29 | As a protest some people never really made any attempt to get on with their writing project but just sat there and chatted to each other . |
| 30 | In an attempt to prove they were unaffected by this , they raised their voices as they chatted to each other , and pretended not to glance uneasily at the nearby rectangles of darker , freshly turned earth . |