Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] at each [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I gave myself just half an hour to get to the theatre and prepare for curtain up — and phoned home at each interval . |
| 2 | Chuck peered intently at each girl they passed , but without exception they avoided his gaze . |
| 3 | The iron-clad Monitor and Merrimack hammered away at each other in the American Civil War . |
| 4 | The two men nodded warily at each other . |
| 5 | The men glanced quickly at each other . |
| 6 | The two boys looked uneasily at each other , but said nothing . |
| 7 | Even the pair of plumed cockatoos that normally chattered away at each other in their wrought-iron enclosure were asleep on their perches . |
| 8 | They stared glumly at each other for a few moments , before Laura shrugged . |
| 9 | He continued up the hill , and she went on down ; but a few paces further on she stopped and looked back , and it was at that precise moment that it happened , because he had turned back as well and for a few moments they looked longingly at each other , each tongue-tied , but each sure , now , of the other 's feelings . |
| 10 | Christina joined in whilst James and Elaine looked helplessly at each other . |
| 11 | John listened hard at each introduction and heard , variously , MacMahanon , MacManamon , MacMarneymum , and — once-MacMillan ; he gave up and settled once again for MacMinimum , to which the man invariably answered without so much as the lifting of an eyebrow . |
| 12 | The men stared silently at each other , then one plucked up courage and said , ‘ There 's something not quite right down there , ’ pointing to the line of fish vans . |
| 13 | Seb and Nahum looked across at each other and both tried not to smile . |
| 14 | When they parted they looked searchingly at each other . |
| 15 | He surveyed the two women , who were oblivious of his presence as they tore verbally at each other . |
| 16 | Branson and Draper smiled broadly at each other . |
| 17 | Kenneth and Mary smiled uncertainly at each other . |
| 18 | ‘ One of these days ’ George promised and they smiled quickly at each other isolating Maxim in a twinge of envy . |
| 19 | Haavikko saw how the two men smiled knowingly at each other and felt a sudden warmth — a sense of belonging — flood through him . |
| 20 | Delicate lines , like tracings , rayed out at each corner of her eyes . |