Example sentences of "[verb] [det] other [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | They are a lovey-dovey couple , much given , for reasons that remain obscure , to roguishly gagging each other with bits of masking tape , but tension sets in with the arrival of Clara 's best friend Lillibet from America . |
2 | And if the herd is threatened , they will gallop off together or maybe huddle together , touching each other for reassurance . |
3 | We 've seen Turners opposing each other for Australia and New Zealand , Richardses for West Indies and England , Manns for England and South Africa ( they both dismissed each other during the 1948–49 series , but it was George catching Tufty which gave rise to John Arlott 's legendary comment about ‘ Mann 's inhumanity to Mann ’ ) , and yet more Smiths ( T.P.B. and F.B. ) for England and New Zealand and for England ( D.V. ) against West Indies ( O.G. ) . |
4 | The six countries had already agreed on Feb. 25 to disband the Pact as a military alliance [ see pp. 38026-27 ] after the Pact and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) declared in November 1990 that they no longer regarded each other as enemies . |
5 | They spent so much time in Zap Zone at Streatham , scampering about in clouds of dry ice , zapping each other with laser guns , so many hours watching Neighbours or running up and down shopping-malls , playing Super Nintendo , they had probably not had time to go anywhere near a mosque or get their heads round the basics of Islamic education . |
6 | They bring each other to perfection . |
7 | MORRISSEY and organisers of the ill-fated Madstock Finsbury Park concerts are embroiled in a legal battle , with both parties threatening to sue each other over Morrissey 's non-appearance on the Sunday bill . |
8 | Brooktree Corp , San Diego and Advanced Micro Devices Inc have settled all pending litigation and agreed not to sue each other on patents related to colour palette chips : the settlement provides for payment to Brooktree of $26.8m from an earlier award of cash damages for patent and mask work infringement and dismissal of all other litigation pending between them . |
9 | Cummings further suggests that certain aspects should be looked in selecting software in order to encourage conversation and pupils to see each other as resources : 1 . |
10 | They had parted in a friendly enough way , promising to see each other from time to time , but Jenna very much doubted if it would ever happen . |
11 | They all sat around , reminding each other of things they all remembered , each waiting his cue for the next reminiscence to be slotted in . |
12 | ‘ And I hope we 're both mature enough to treat each other with civility and respect for the few remaining days we 're forced to spend together . ’ |
13 | It was a wonder they had not all mauled each other to death long ago and left the damp , chilly coastline unpeopled except for howling birds . |
14 | It was very undemanding , revolving round the borrowing of clothes , and helping each other with routines . |
15 | The authors of such statements cite each other in support of their beliefs , but the criticcal reader is hard put to find reference to any systematic test of their accuracy . |
16 | ‘ We 've both been doing a bit of that — accusing each other of things that neither of us is guilty of . ’ |
17 | ‘ We must not start accusing each other of murder . |
18 | Before long , both sides were accusing each other of breaches of the agreement , and in the autumn of 1931 , while Gandhi was in London for the second , inconclusive , Round Table conference , civil disobedience and political violence broke out again . |
19 | They mount each , they tear each other to pieces , |
20 | On the night of the party , they hugged each other before Gedge , still in his black shorts , led the band through the kind of cultured noise which Peel loves . |
21 | They hugged each other in silence for a long time . |
22 | Chained jungle-beasts , doubly confined within force fields , fought each other with horns , fangs and claws , sliding in pools of vermilion blood . |
23 | Bright flowers bloomed , were drowned with snow , then shoots of oak twisted into the new light , grew serenely upwards , fought each other like beasts , tentacles entwined , one overpowering its companions , crushing them , then looming large in Tallis 's view . |
24 | Only the Parsons stuck gamely to their gory sport , circling each other like bull terriers in a pit , with Thomas and I as spectators and referees . |
25 | They had a daughter , who married Wilfrid Scawen Blunt [ q.v. ] , and two sons who succeeded each other as Baron Wentworth and second and third Earl of Lovelace . |
26 | Readers are at one , levels of sophistication vanish , in those cinematic sequences on stairs and landings , where footsteps echo and distant doors slam , and in a flat below two workmen fool about and daub each other with paint . |
27 | He kept still , wanting them both to crave each other beyond emotion . |
28 | Every other spring , New York 's social climbers battle each other for tickets to one of the season 's most desirable parties : the opening of the Whitney Biennial . |
29 | He had never before seen man and woman regard , consider and touch each other as man with man . |
30 | Corbett went up the great steps of the hospital , past the group of old soldiers , their limbs grotesquely amputated , who enlivened each other with stories of their past . |