Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] at each [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Instead he raised his talons and struck at the wire mesh in his own turn , which only provoked the other eagle to do the same again , the sounds of both of them increased by the flapping of their great wings and the crashing of their beaks on the cage walls as they vainly tried to get at each other .
2 They continued to watch in stunned silence as Guy ran up the stairs and disappeared through the doorway , then turned to look at each other .
3 On 7 July 1575 Sir John Forster , the Warden of the English Middle March , took offence at an insult offered him by his opposite number , supporters of the two men began to jeer at each other , and a skirmish ensued in which several men were killed and Sir John and his son-in-law Lord Francis Russell were carried off as prisoners .
4 They all started to look at each other rather furtively .
5 Bell and his colleagues now believe these were caused by head-on fights with opponents , who appeared to lunge at each other in much the same way that present-day crocodiles do , but with more apparent gusto , using strong jaws to tear at each other 's snouts .
6 The target word that the user intended to write at each position is also known and stored in a file .
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