Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] each " in BNC.
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| 1 | But although Frank took two wickets for South Africa and cousin J.T. took one for England , they failed to get each other out . |
| 2 | That meant he and Sara had hours and hours of hanging around together waiting to be called — and they got to know each other rather well . |
| 3 | But as they got to know each other Annabelle discovered that Steven liked the arts as much as the sciences/hiking as well as driving/driving cars as well as repairing them . |
| 4 | They knelt facing each other and to George , Elizabeth looked no older than her sister , Sarah . |
| 5 | I would like to record that they tried to cheer each other up in their double misery , but I 'm afraid the truth is that as far as I know they never spoke to each other again . |
| 6 | There stood the King of Kings and the president , choking and weeping as they tried to praise each other , their wives by their sides . |
| 7 | Their eyes rolled and their manes tossed , as , snorting and whinnying , they tried to bite each other . |
| 8 | When they seemed to resemble each other rather too closely , he introduced random mutations in the offspring . |
| 9 | They seemed to inspire each other . |
| 10 | Little by little the Grants began to do more things together as they came to trust each other , and to find enjoyment in each other 's company . |
| 11 | They came to help each other especially at the clipping time , the time of the clipping the sheep . |
| 12 | Later , when they came to know each other better , the pupil might graduate to calling him ‘ Lewis ’ , but this would be in the case of intimates . |
| 13 | They 'd seen each other fairly regularly since , but more and more competitively as time went on . |
| 14 | They 'd seen each other every day since then ; sometimes , because of rehearsals and because Gesner had so much work to do , it was only for a drink at the Franz Joseph . |
| 15 | There was really very little to talk about , since they 'd seen each other at breakfast , so conversation became desultory once Irene had told Juliet about the other patients — the hysterectomies , the ovarian cyst as big as a football , and the girl who had come to be sterilised and was found to be pregnant . |
| 16 | A lip turned up at the towel in her hair , as if he was remembering that first time they 'd seen each other , but the quirk of that lip was cruel . |
| 17 | It was as pained and as lost-even now , as he came to kill her — as it had been when they 'd faced each other in the street . |
| 18 | Since that afternoon two days ago they 'd treated each other with a cool formality , a style initiated by Roman on the return trip from the Blue Grotto , when he 'd seemed to withdraw into a kind of amused reserve , as if he 'd tested her out in some way and now lost interest in the original conquest . |
| 19 | They 'd missed each other so much . |
| 20 | By the time Victoria 's Guider called her , they felt they 'd known each other for ages . |
| 21 | They 'd clinked glasses and laughed and just cruised onto the dance floor as if they 'd known each other for years . |
| 22 | As they turned to face each other , the music ended . |
| 23 | They began to tease each other and the experimenters with self-conscious relish . |
| 24 | It goes on to say and it came about that in thy journeying eastward they eventually discovered a valid plain and a land of Shinar and they took up growing there and they began to say each one to the other come on let us make bricks and bake and bake with a burning process , so bricks served as stone for them and |
| 25 | As time went on , they began to visit each other 's homes . |
| 26 | On hot days they wallowed in bogs or streams ; at noon they took siestas ; they began to groom each other and established communal loos , well away from their sleeping quarters . |
| 27 | They began to race each other around the edge of the table , making loud zooming noises . |
| 28 | Following the uprising and the overthrow of the legitimate government , whatever common interest there had been between these groups ceased and they began to fight each other . |
| 29 | She was only nineteen , and short and plump and cuddly , and they loved to fuck each other . |
| 30 | Then they started beating each other with clubs and sticks . |