Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [verb] [adj] other " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sewell was a dedicated surgical operator , although he was sometimes greatly inconvenienced by the disorderly conduct of students crowding and jostling each other for even a glimpse of what was going on . |
| 2 | They are laughing and chasing each other . |
| 3 | Three or four tables are surrounded by large happy families chatting , laughing and toasting each other 's health . |
| 4 | All around the smoking room , gentlemen seemed to be standing in clusters laughing and clapping each other on the shoulder . |
| 5 | At the end The Bangles — Hoffs , Michael Steele and sisters Debbi and Vicki Peterson — were at each other 's throats , fighting , swearing and sending each other sheep 's heads in the mail . |
| 6 | The Chinese kids piled into a pub , pushing and kicking each other . |
| 7 | Guests rose from their seats , men pushing and shoving each other . |
| 8 | There were shrieks and howls , little bodies in frantic motion , pushing and shoving each other and beating out smouldering cloth and singed feathers . |
| 9 | Thus in the health field , as on the politico-military level , there is a situation of ‘ dual power ’ , with different systems and conceptions of health confronting , interacting and affecting each other in complex ways . |
| 10 | Such being the direct evidence for contacts between Greeks and Jews before the time of Alexander , we ask the obvious question : what did Greeks and Jews make of these various opportunities for meeting and knowing each other As for the Greeks , the answer is simple . |
| 11 | Two men , aged 26 and 27 , contested the case but were found guilty of rape and aiding and abetting each other on the sex attacks on a 21-year-old French woman , who told how the two burst into her room at a friend 's flat while she was reading the Bible . |
| 12 | The boatmen came and went , so that the boat-people 's community ashore was largely one of women , often living together , helping and supporting each other in the absence of their husbands . |
| 13 | Now everybody starts chattering and telling each other what they already know . |
| 14 | There I saw men kissing and holding and loving each other ; something that I never thought possible as the mainstream culture manifests itself in overwhelmingly heterosexual and macho terms . |
| 15 | All around , men were embracing and wishing each other ‘ Id Mubarak . ’ |
| 16 | In Britain , for these women who live alone with their husbands , this comfort is lacking , the afternoon hour spent lying on a bed chatting with their sisters-in-law , combing and oiling each other 's hair , is replaced by empty hours sitting by the heater in some grey suburb . |
| 17 | There was a short silence now in which anyone with good enough hearing to detect a pin-drop would have detected the sound of hundreds of little grey cells jostling and barging each other in frantic efforts to arrive at a perfect understanding of the day 's events . |
| 18 | Kissing , licking , rubbing and stroking each other 's bodies . |
| 19 | When you 're fighting and hating each other anyway , it must be nice for the chick when she turns out to have the law batting for her . |
| 20 | However , while Troilus is fantasizing about Cressida 's bed , men are fighting and killing each other on the field outside Troy . |
| 21 | The whole thing 's unfair , life 's unjust and people are continually hurting and hating each other , and forgiving does n't help — why should I forgive you anyway , when you 'll never forgive me ? " |
| 22 | When you all have to wear the same uniform , there is n't a great deal you can do to make yourself stand out from the crowd , but we did our best , washing and setting each other 's hair and sharing out what precious bits of makeup we owned . |
| 23 | Nearby was expensive Kensington , where rich ladies shopped , and a walk from that was Earls Court , with its baby-faced male and female whores arguing and shoving each other in the pubs ; there were transvestites and addicts and many disoriented people and con-merchants . |
| 24 | Things are so serious they 're actually not arguing and blaming each other . |
| 25 | The two groups have been kidnapping and killing each other 's followers . |
| 26 | ‘ People were hugging and kissing each other as my car powered its way to the finish as they joined me in an early celebration . |
| 27 | There were one or two adults at the centre of each , directing operations ; elders , stooped and greying , weaving about on the periphery ; and in between , aunts and uncles and cousins and assorted offspring yammering and pawing each other . |
| 28 | YE FLIG TOT A group of men smiling and congratulating each other |
| 29 | Today , however , when she glanced up and saw two men high above her on a jig smiling and nudging each other , she simply fled back to the sanctuary of her office . |