Example sentences of "[det] other [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had performed the movement so many times , our bodies slipping past each other into a new configuration . |
| 2 | There has been racing at York since roman times when horses were matched against each other about a mile to the north of the city . |
| 3 | For the first time , black and white political leaders are starting to talk to each other about a common , not a divided , South Africa . |
| 4 | The parties then wrote letters to each other about a proposed appointment of a surveyor to review the rent . |
| 5 | LORD Spencer 's death might have served to remind this country of the dread winter of 1978/1979 when rubbish was uncollected in the streets , the fire brigades were on strike , hospitals were picketed by auxiliary workers who demanded to approve all surgical operations , housewives fought each other over a cauliflower leaf and the dead lay unburied in every churchyard . |
| 6 | If we are to communicate clearly and precisely with each other over a wide geographical and social range , we must obey the rules of Standard English as they are current at the time we are speaking or writing . |
| 7 | Thus , while Piaget emphasised the importance of the child 's actions upon the world , other researchers have focused upon the child 's reactions to other people and the interactions which occur when adult and infant act and react towards each other over a period of time . |
| 8 | There will be no material ownership or management relationship between the two after the spin-off , although they will continue to provide products and services to each other over a transition period . |
| 9 | We were in the front lounge of Uncle Hamish and Aunt Tone 's Victorian villa in the attractive Gallanach suburbette of Ballymeanoch , facing each other over a card table . |
| 10 | Like two regiments facing each other over a stretch of muddy field . |
| 11 | Llanwrtyd Wells is the smallest town in Britain … but it 's big claim to fame is being the home of one of the strangest races in the world … every year … runners … mountain bikers … and horses come to race against each other over a country course of 22 miles … |
| 12 | He found the two opposing armies facing each other across a battlefield littered with corpses from the recent encounter . |
| 13 | The omnibuses were horse drawn , single decker with passengers sitting facing each other across a middle aisle , and other omnibuses travelled westward from Chiswick through Brentford , Isleworth and Hounslow . |
| 14 | The two offices faced each other across a large internal courtyard entered through low archways from Downing Street and Charles Street . |
| 15 | THE PARENTS of a bride and groom glared at each other across a courtroom yesterday — in an amazing dust-up over the bill for their wedding reception . |
| 16 | Two blackbirds sang against each other across a territory boundary . |
| 17 | In minutes they stood facing each other across a few feet of upland grass , the fresher horses of Jinneth 's escort stamping impatiently . |
| 18 | Once I heard two calling to each other across a valley , a weird sound , vaguely resembling a baboon 's bark . |
| 19 | In its final form , it contained some half dozen suites of rooms in two wings opposing each other across a central court . |
| 20 | The spacious living area of his suite was as luxurious as everything else she had seen of this hotel — a pair of couches facing each other across a low table , two individual chairs at an angle close to the window , with a desk and a bar supplying practical touches . |
| 21 | Two black leather chesterfields faced each other across a low glass-topped table bearing a cylindrical flower vase of highly polished stainless steel surrounded by three slimmer and smaller cylinders of the same material , which , empty , could have been a rather large cruet set , but the true function of which was illustrated by the pure white candles , long and pointed , which emerged from their upper openings . |
| 22 | ‘ I hope you 're hungry , ’ Luke remarked , as they faced each other across a beautifully appointed table in a restaurant overlooking the canal . |
| 23 | Two enormous sofas in a deep burgundy brocade looked hugely luxurious in contrast to the rest of the room as they faced each other across a low glass table . |
| 24 | He and Miles had last faced each other across a battlefield strewn with the dead and dying . |
| 25 | The rival generals faced each other across a wooden table in a green desert tent , General Schwarzkopf sitting with Saudi commander general , Prince Karla pin Sultan . |
| 26 | Applying it to R & D organisations is a challenge , and learning and sharing with each other through a network , such as the Quality Methods Association R & D group can be useful . |
| 27 | FIVE youngsters were killed as two drivers raced each other through a housing estate , a court heard yesterday . |
| 28 | We communicate with each other through a variety of methods — by the staff newsletter ; by Office Notices ( which may be of three types — mandatory , advisory , and informative ) ; by internal memos and notes ; committee minutes , and by word of mouth . |
| 29 | Publishers are also being invited to pay for four or five copies of a magazine to be lined up against each other along a shelf , so the title appears to be a fast seller — a common US practice . |
| 30 | Along a transform boundary , two plates simply move laterally past each other along a transform fault without any major element of divergence or convergence . |