Example sentences of "[vb base] at each [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She watched his whole body stiffen , his fists clench at each side of his hips , then his big soft-lipped mouth , the feature that marred his otherwise handsome looks , stretch wide as he ground his teeth one set over the other . |
| 32 | Rusticated masonry arches stand at each end of the bridge , which is now used only for farm access . |
| 33 | ‘ Tell me about those three-storey houses that stand at each corner of the crossroads . |
| 34 | We stare at each other for quite a bit — me and this pigeon . |
| 35 | We stare at each other . |
| 36 | The aim of the exercise , then , is to hypothesise a set of syntactic stages through which children pass in their progress towards the adult language , and to classify the structures and categories which operate at each stage , thus providing a syntactic profile chart of development . |
| 37 | They grasp at each other with numbed fingers for the comfort of touch . |
| 38 | They would kick each other under the table , take food off one another 's plates , throw food on the table , shout and scream at each other . |
| 39 | I squeeze between a pleasant-looking , well-built car repairer called Bob and an enormously furry small-businessman who 's name I fail to ascertain , and we all smile at each other . |
| 40 | ( They smile at each other . ) |
| 41 | And then they just smile at each other and look away and talk about the weather et cetera . |
| 42 | We smile at each other , but though we 're still light and happy the urgency has gone . |
| 43 | They smile at each other . |
| 44 | Another very firm edge can be obtained by knitting a ‘ cord ’ or roll at each edge ( see Diagram 2 ) . |
| 45 | The goats lunge at each other with their horns and try to flip each other off the ledge . |
| 46 | Essentially what Darwin realized was that sexual dimorphism , particularly where it makes the male spectacularly different from female is not always the outcome of inter-male conflict , very often it is , we saw examples of the films of stags , of erm elephant seals , those kinds of animals where the dimorphic differences appear to be the result of inter-male conflict , for instance elephant seals are seven times heavier , the males are seven times heavier than the females on average because sheer weight is what wins those astonishing battles they have on the beaches when they , they kind of lunge at each other . |
| 47 | At the bar half a dozen very grey old men sit and grimace at each other , saying absolutely nothing . |
| 48 | Pieces of material much longer than the vice jaws should be gripped between two wood strips and held in the vice with the addition of a G-cramp or screw at each end ( fig.2 ) . |
| 49 | ‘ We will shake hands before the game , then shout at each other across the dug-outs during the match , and shake hands again afterwards , ’ said Souness . |
| 50 | They just shout at each other . |
| 51 | We nod at each other . |
| 52 | The two of them walk together and gently paw at each other rather sweetly . |
| 53 | Sometimes we may use much more of one colour than another ; this is natural since different demands and opportunities arise at each phase of life . |
| 54 | Meltingly they eat at each other , like two carnivorous ice-creams . |
| 55 | We grin at each other . |
| 56 | We grin at each other . |
| 57 | We grin at each other through forkfuls of spaghetti . |
| 58 | If you put the N1 cam in the centre of the machine , you will get four complete repeats and a quarter repeat at each edge ( Fig. 2 ) . |
| 59 | If you put the N1 cam half-a-repeat to the left of centre on the machine , in this case between needles 12 and 13 on the left of centre , you 'll get three complete repeats and a three-quarter repeat at each edge ( Fig 3. ) , again rather messy when seamed . |
| 60 | The slot for the fielded panel at the bottom of the curved members , needed a template which rested on the wood at each end of the slot to which I glued and screwed a 50 x 50 batten , the slot being routered to the correct depth in the middle and slightly oversize at each end . |