Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [v-ing] [prep] each " in BNC.

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1 Again the two brothers were pushing at each other and as they all mounted the steps Ellen stepped and walked by the side of her son , something she was in the habit of doing whenever they were in company , and which Joe had been aware of from the time she had recovered after his uncle 's death .
2 One such place where the two plates are edging past each other is at the San Andreas fault in Northern California : the consequences of a major release of tension along that line are too well-known , and too horrific , to bear repeating here .
3 Now the allies are tearing at each other in a savage grab for territory .
4 It then gives the process a stamp of its own by running league tables within the group that show how the various subsidiary banks are performing against each target .
5 But the other two Palestinians were shouting at each other in Hebrew .
6 But while the legislators were vying with each other to amend insolvency laws which all were agreed were far from fair or just , in 1842 they were able to agree on the need to do away with the notorious symbol of that unfairness and injustice , the Fleet Prison .
7 Not so long ago lenders were falling over each other to offer mortgages .
8 HOLLYWOOD producers are scrambling over each other to snap up rights to top-secret data on some of the biggest Cold War spy scandals .
9 However , in those situations where professionals and paraprofessionals are working alongside each other , the team approach seems to be gaining wider acceptance as its potential for making optimum use of available personnel resources is being recognized .
10 Now , everything had changed , and their bodies were moving round each other in the orange light of the dance court .
11 A pair of tysties are displaying at each other on a ledge , their high-pitched calls extending even beyond our human audio range , judging by the soundless opening of vermilion-lined beaks .
12 Matters are made worse if different selectivity processes are operating for each subgroup .
13 If bees can communicate distances and directions , corrected for wind variations , by their waggle dance on the side of the honeycomb , then may not the birds and other creatures be communicating to each other , in some considerable detail , those things relevant to their personal realities ?
14 The teachers were shouting at each other and scrambling up the shelves but getting nowhere .
15 Circle members were looking at each other with slowly dawning horror and suspicion .
16 A cabin cruiser was chugging down the wide brown river towards that little harbour I 'd seen , and over the other side the bank was so steep that the rows of terraced houses were leaning over each other to get a view .
17 Pairs of RIC men were patrolling on each side of the wide thoroughfare and , though to Jacob they were of no more account than any other pedestrians , he realised that Deirdre could not feel so unconcerned .
18 A crimson stain swept up her face when she felt how swollen her breasts were , and how hard the crests were pressing against each hot palm .
19 Both sides were spying on each other quite openly in the course of which many aggressive situations had occurred with loss of spy aircraft and their crews .
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