Example sentences of "[verb] and [verb] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How lovely , thought Winnie , letting her knitting fall and looking at the leaping flames , if she agreed ! |
| 2 | As Charlie approached the Whitechapel Road , he stopped and stared at the frantic bustle taking place all around him . |
| 3 | She stopped and looked at the other three who were scrutinising her in amused silence . |
| 4 | I stopped and looked at the big house . |
| 5 | They stopped and wondered at the crude little pageant parked outside the cottage , stroking its paintwork and prying into the winches and traps . |
| 6 | We are both exalted and fallen at the same time : sinful and yet given unique status in the universe of things . |
| 7 | When she had the hackles high on her shoulders , when she whined and scratched at the back door , then the house was watched . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Nails was laughing and shivering at the same time , so excited that he felt almost ill with it . |
| 10 | 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 ? ’ |
| 11 | Suddenly the anguish was gone and she was laughing and crying at the same time . |
| 12 | ‘ I was only asking why you waste so much time stealing stuff you ca n't eat and then waste more time stealing dogs when you could steal and eat at the same time , as it were . ’ |
| 13 | While in Amritsar he visited and prayed at the Golden Temple , Sikhism 's most hallowed shrine which had been the subject in 1984 of an Army assault [ see pp. 33223-24 ] , in a gesture of reconciliation . |
| 14 | All cases are presented and discussed at the weekly team meeting , after which an initial diagnosis is made . |
| 15 | I was shivering and sweating at the same time . |
| 16 | It is useful , when several people have to get together to collaborate on an activity , to make one of them responsible for seeing that this is done and done at the right time . |
| 17 | The implicit assumption is that investors can borrow and lend at the riskless rate of interest . |
| 18 | Modigliani , of course , spotted her at once and came and sat at the next table . |
| 19 | Hawley decided on an immediate attack by his dragoons on the enemy right wing before his own weary infantry had got into line , convinced that the Highlanders would break and run at the mere sight of the royal cavalry charging sword in hand . |
| 20 | Someone was squealing and crying at the same time , as if caught in a trap . |
| 21 | The secondary plate , enabling the creatures to chew and breathe at the same time , is also a mammalian characteristic . |
| 22 | Coun Taylor said : ‘ We are always ready to talk and look at the statistical evidence for increased safety measures . |
| 23 | After Belfast , he knew what women could do and smile at the same time . |
| 24 | There is an elaborate system of inspecting and reporting at the local level , and monitoring at the national level by the Council for the Care of Churches , and at diocesan level by Diocesan Advisory Committees . |
| 25 | Erlich helped out with the Little League team in Rome that played and practised at the American School on the Via Cassia most Saturday mornings . |
| 26 | Behind them twenty-eight rank and file Lionisers exclaimed and marvelled at the quaint harbour beneath them , their thoughts torn between Dickens and murder . |
| 27 | It 's sludging and scaling at the same time . |
| 28 | Shortly after the end of the strike , Dobre left the valley to go and study at the Communist Party 's university in Bucharest , the Academy Stefan Gheorghe . |
| 29 | For most of those who link computing and boredom , the explanation is that they have to spend many working hours a day behind luminous screens endlessly tapping a plastic typewriter keyboard , after which they are usually fit only to go and goggle at the luminous screen in their living rooms every night . |
| 30 | 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 . |