Example sentences of "[verb] and [v-ing] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside in the howling , flobs of rain were twisting and twining around the few remaining hutches . |
| 2 | She stood up , holding her hands to her face , laughing and weeping at the same time , gasping for breath , feeling her heart and only finally throwing her arms up in joy . |
| 3 | Nails was laughing and shivering at the same time , so excited that he felt almost ill with it . |
| 4 | The two women held one another , laughing and crying at the same time , while little Danny pulled at Ruth 's skirt , wanting to know , ‘ Who 's that lady , Mam ? ’ |
| 5 | Suddenly the anguish was gone and she was laughing and crying at the same time . |
| 6 | In very cold weather it might be worth living and sleeping in the same room so that you only need to keep one room well heated . |
| 7 | I was shivering and sweating at the same time . |
| 8 | However , the drugs dust was really stirred with the apparently unrehearsed efforts of two rugby-medicos , Laurie Knight , the former All Black flanker now practising medicine in South Africa , and John Mayhew , in recent years the doctor tending and travelling with the All Blacks . |
| 9 | Someone was squealing and crying at the same time , as if caught in a trap . |
| 10 | Hurriedly showering and pulling on the same pair of jeans she had worn the day she 'd arrived , she jerked a baggy sweater over her head and went downstairs . |
| 11 | It 's sludging and scaling at the same time . |
| 12 | By tactfully praising and criticizing at the same time , he had pupils flocking into the school , eager to train , rightly believing he had special abilities in this sphere . |
| 13 | I fought for breath between heaves , snatching down flecks of vomit and coughing and spewing at the same time . |
| 14 | More surprising , and to Paviour more confounding and conciliating at the same time , was the presence of Gus Hambro , busy with a large clip-board , charting on squared paper the patch of ground to be taken up , and sketching a hurried but accurately proportioned elevation of the exposed vault of the flue . |
| 15 | John was burgling and dealing at the same time , so we had a regular supply , like . |
| 16 | He was crying and laughing at the same time . |
| 17 | So , we can think of different modules from Dennett 's flow-chart as being stored and functioning in the same place in the machine , just as we can think of different levels of translation of programming language as being carried out in the same place in the machine . |
| 18 | ‘ But the most difficult thing about this band for me is actually playing parts live and singing at the same time ! |
| 19 | He stared at it , puzzled , deciding it was pulsating , with red lines swelling and diminishing in the self-same rhythm ; tentacles that throbbed with the heart beat of the central creature . |
| 20 | … Everybody was talking and gesticulating at the same time . ’ |
| 21 | I 'm not a social eater and I hate talking and eating at the same time . |
| 22 | ‘ You do n't want to listen to doctors , ’ he tells Irene , coming as close as he ever does to talking and smiling at the same time . |
| 23 | Somehow her own anger and his frustration together turned into a mutual all-embracing passion , and they clung together , hating and loving at the same time . |