Example sentences of "chasing each [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The television showed two children chasing each other round a car , shrieking . |
| 2 | Written as a result of attending a Labour Party conference , it was the product of shock at what then seemed to me the amount of time and energy politicians and journalists spent chasing each other 's tails on such occasions . |
| 3 | It claims there is no evidence that ERM membership offers a less painful way of suppressing the spiral of wages and prices chasing each other higher . |
| 4 | It claims there is no evidence that ERM membership offers a less painful way of suppressing the spiral of wages and prices chasing each other higher . |
| 5 | Moreover , ‘ They were all madly highly-sexed like the Starkadders ’ , she told an interviewer earlier in the decade , ‘ and I think a lot of the laughing at that kind of thing in Cold Comfort Farm comes from a ‘ distaste ’ … if you have it thrust on you from an early age , with divorces left , right and centre and people chasing each other round tables … well . ’ |
| 6 | Nelly watched the thoughts chasing each other across his dour countenance . |
| 7 | There were the usual games in the playground , children chasing each other , boys grabbing girls , everybody laughing and enjoying themselves . |
| 8 | The twins and Nara were chasing each other round and round , hiding in the shadows , then bursting out on each other , screaming , wild with uncontrolled excitement . |
| 9 | Putting paid to Daisy 's hour of peace were also hoards of children clambering over pews , chasing each other down the aisles , punching their mothers , and having to be repeatedly hushed for talking . |
| 10 | A gaggle of Bonefish 's children were in constant , but changing , attendance , sometimes helping me , but more often chasing each other in a complicated game of tag up and over Masquerade 's hull . |
| 11 | There are over 300 horses chasing each other round three Flat meetings today — not much death there . |
| 12 | The gloom rolled back until I could see six or seven huts : they were grass-roofed , mean little constructions of board and lath , surrounded by muddy pools by which dozens of small black pigs were wagging their corkscrew tails and chasing each other over the cliffs . |
| 13 | The unremitting four-mile ascent to the high pass over the ridge reduced me to a walking wet rag ; I was literally soaked to the skin and could feel rivulets chasing each other down my bosom . |
| 14 | I slept later than usual next morning , and woke to see half past nine on my bedside clock , and a cascade of raindrops chasing each other down the window . |
| 15 | It is in this frame of mind and with the ideas chasing each other around in my head that the day now ends . |
| 16 | They are laughing and chasing each other . |
| 17 | As they stood there , less than an arm 's length apart , five lines of blood started across Carey 's face , like beads of rain chasing each other on a window pane . |
| 18 | They 've got us placed now — if we start moving around , we 'll all be chasing each other all night . |
| 19 | Any morning you could see them tearing through the tree-tops , chasing each other up and down as they searched for the red berries that they loved . |
| 20 | They seemed to have darkened , smouldering in a way that sent hot and cold chills chasing each other through her body . |
| 21 | She and Henry ( Stephan Kreiss ) , cavort like young lovers , chasing each other round the kitchen table , while outside , in the desert , danger lurks . |
| 22 | Sue and Bryony were busy cooking , and the kids were chasing each other round the table , squealing and pushing chairs in each other 's way . |
| 23 | chasing each other , picking fruit ; |
| 24 | ‘ But these are n't bits of paper chasing each other for no purpose . |
| 25 | Then it abruptly disappeared , and all he could see were entrancing coloured patterns chasing each other about the glowing darkness like tropical fish . |
| 26 | Mr Paul Whelan , the party 's organisation officer , claims 10 times as much is spent chasing each expatriate vote as has been devoted to encouraging each unregistered adult living in Britain to claim theirs . |
| 27 | Does the Secretary of State notice that 12 months ago every vacant job in Wales was chased by nine unemployed people but that by last month 13 unemployed people were chasing each vacancy ? |