Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [prep] each [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Almost all the media coverage would be about her and Charles , how far apart they stood , whether they spoke or looked at each other .
2 She found that in the time allowed four-fifths of the adult pairs conversed , looked or smiled at each other .
3 The stars lit up the scene , and the little black iron lamps that gleamed outside each villa , in perfect keeping with the traditional style of the architecture .
4 To make the comparison fair , we should have to assume that built into each typist 's chair is a gun , wired up so that if he makes a mistake he is summarily shot , his place being taken by a reserve typist ( squeamish readers may prefer to imagine a spring-loaded ejector seat gently catapulting miscreant typists out of the line , but the gun gives a more realistic picture of natural selection ) .
5 The dark tenement block loomed up on her left and through the broken windows she could see the reflection of the naked gas jets that burned on each landing .
6 Soon complex life-forms emerged , based upon chemical arrangements that differed from each other .
7 Adam 's Renault was among 60 cars and lorries that piled into each other on the M62 at Ainley Top , near Huddersfield , on Monday .
8 Maud and Roland neither looked nor spoke to each other .
9 They were approaching the open riverside yard where the giant square tubes were being assembled , on pontoons that floated with each spring tide .
10 They laughed a little hysterically , and whispered to each other to be quiet and then laughed again , drunk with the joy of touching hands and the scent of their bodies in the dark .
11 Slowly , they got together at the far end of the house and whispered to each other .
12 So they sat on a blanket and clung to each other , tears streaming down their cheeks .
13 They bantered and argued with each other , laughed raucously , became angry and fell into sulks , changing moods as quickly and as unpredictably as children .
14 The Secretary shall minute the proceedings of each meeting such minutes to be produced , and read and passed at each sederunt .
15 If the paddocks can be topped and harrowed after each grazing , a more even , tussock-free sward can be maintained .
16 Their voices rose , pure and distinct in the clear air as they laughed and shouted to each other .
17 And frowned at each other , as ill-coordinated a double-act as Fanny and Johnny Cradock : it was hard to tell which one found the other most irritating .
18 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 .
19 They snuffled and sighed to each other , beckoning Tabitha , knowing a haulier when they saw one .
20 We practised endlessly , experimented , studied books , played games and climbed into each other 's psyche with ease and without inhibition .
21 Starting at the airman 's feet he moved up and raved at each disaster until he came to his head .
22 And then I went to Hereford for six months and I did er six months of medicine , and that was a long way from home in Essex and er we all sort of er mucked in and er made our own entertainment and cooked for each other and that erm was quite a good time .
23 On TV stations around the world , they coyly nudged and giggled to each other .
24 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 .
25 Look at that time Louise 's boy-friend — the miner 's son from Wales — met him , and how they argued and snarled at each other , and we were all against G.P. for being so contemptuous about working class people and working-class life .
26 They stopped and looked at each other and James laughed .
27 We stopped and looked at each other , then shook hands .
28 And there , a mile apart , the two armies sat and looked at each other .
29 Joe and I gasped , and looked at each other .
30 They sat down beneath the shade of an umbrella , and looked at each other across the table .
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