Example sentences of "were [v-ing] each [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A quiet that was close to let-down replaced the wild bustle of the preparation but they were enjoying each other 's company , the animal comfort of other presences , banishment of loneliness . |
| 2 | ‘ It is an open secret that they were seeing each other regularly until all hell broke loose back in the summer , ’ said a source close to Camilla last night . |
| 3 | and I ca n't remember what , the last time we were seeing each other it |
| 4 | The lads were nudging each other and pointing at me . |
| 5 | ‘ I felt people were nudging each other and pointing at me and saying , ‘ Him , the juvenile lead ? ’ |
| 6 | Is that why you , you and Lorna were nudging each other ? |
| 7 | They were helping each other . |
| 8 | But a closer look at the video recording showed that both men were helping each other to drive . |
| 9 | Then together she and Peter were helping each other from the room , Marc 's compassionless black stare following them out . |
| 10 | Before long , both sides were accusing each other of breaches of the agreement , and in the autumn of 1931 , while Gandhi was in London for the second , inconclusive , Round Table conference , civil disobedience and political violence broke out again . |
| 11 | ‘ I though it must have been because they were accusing each other of sleeping with each other 's husbands , ’ said McLean . |
| 12 | Surprising when you consider that it 's ‘ not so very long ago ’ that they were eating each other ( laughter ) . |
| 13 | Unix System Labs and The Santa Cruz Operation were patting each other on the back last week , their leaders having emerged from a late night session in the midst of SCO Forum with what they called a ‘ workable plan to come together . ’ |
| 14 | Baidoa , where in the middle of last year 500 people were dying each day , is no longer a charnel-house ; nor are Merca , Bardera or Kismayu . |
| 15 | Indeed the Lucas workers were alarmed to learn that whilst they were facing structural unemployment 3000 people were dying each year for want of a lightweight portable dialysis machine which uses carbon filters and a small microprocessor for patient monitoring . |
| 16 | Drawn up by a UN team and representatives of the Kenyan government , the report found that tens of people were dying each week in camps set up for the refugees in the remote border region of Kenya and described it as " appalling and embarrassing " that they were supposed to be under the care of the Office of UN High Commissioner for Refugees . |
| 17 | There was a smattering of musket-fire from far beyond the stream , evidence that the rival picquet lines of skirmishers were bidding each other a lethal good morning . |
| 18 | But I do n't think we were understanding each other . ’ |
| 19 | When I left at two o'clock , Tally and I were addressing each other by first names ( ‘ Elliot ’ was strange to him and we settled for ‘ Ellix ’ ) and I was able to address the two waitresses by their first names without feeling uncomfortable . |
| 20 | Indeed , their bodies were brushing each other when Ven raised an arm and , as if meaning to turn her away from him in the direction she must go , placed it around her shoulder . |
| 21 | Instead Rory had found out only when Ken had had his first story published , and now it was as though they were passing each other travelling in opposite directions ; Ken slowly but surely building up a reputation as a children 's story-teller while his own supposed career as a professional recounter of traveller 's tales sank gradually in the west . |
| 22 | By the summer of 1942 the staff of Hut 6 were solving each day the settings of some twenty-six German army and air force keys — keys which themselves changed daily . |
| 23 | Two were pulling each other 's hair and screaming at each other while the men tried to part them . |
| 24 | Several young boys were racing each other across the open expanse , leaping and shouting , and from the abbey itself the voices of monks chanting the noon office rose on the air . |
| 25 | ’ You were racing each other were n't you ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ The last time I was in this room , ’ Samantha reminisces , ‘ me and Gail were funking each other senseless . |
| 27 | In no time at all , girls from three schools in the neighbourhood were punching each other and being dragged away by the police . |
| 28 | They were facing each other , Ward saying , ‘ We have nothin , that could make it there and back . ’ |
| 29 | Well it we it was a terrace and , and one side of the ter the front doors were facing each other and there was twelve or thirteen houses on each side . |
| 30 | Laughing , Edward moved sideways , sweeping her with him , untangling her legs , straightening her until they were facing each other , side by side . |