Example sentences of "and [verb] at [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I 'm not a social eater and I hate talking and eating at the same time . |
| 3 | Here , at close quarters , the fitful , elusive silver congealed into the turgid brown flood she had seen upriver , a silent surge of water looking almost solid in its power , sweeping along leaves and branches and roots and swathes of weed in its eddies , gnawing away loose red layers of the soil along this near bank , and eating at the muddy rim of the path . |
| 4 | I stood up and gazed at a small pile of my toys which had been thrown to one side of my cupboard . |
| 5 | When I made no response he turned and gazed at the far line of coral reef that was marked by a fret of white breaking water . |
| 6 | She went up to the bedroom and gazed at the old four-poster , hardly noticing the faded splendour of its blue and gold canopy as she scrutinised the decorated wooden frieze that ran along the top . |
| 7 | It 's a thing I love and hate at the same time . |
| 8 | Even with his skills and influence at the Prime Minister 's disposal , however , by the end of January Miyazawa 's future tenure as Prime Minister appeared to be distinctly uncertain . |
| 9 | The first is where the whole of the programme is provided by and taught at a major centre , as in the case of Bristol Polytechnic ; the second is where the first year is provided extra-murally at a number of associated centres , while the second year only is provided at the main centre , as the case of Portsmouth Polytechnic ; and the third is where both the first and second years are provided at the main and associate centres as at Plymouth Polytechnic and Cornwall Technical College , Camborne . |
| 10 | It should be based on or at least draw from coherent bodies of knowledge which go beyond mere skill and are capable of being explicated and taught at a high level . |
| 11 | He 'd worked and taught at the Magic Theater in San Francisco ; had therapy at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur with Fritz Perls ; worked in New York with Chaikin and La Mama . |
| 12 | Christina followed and stopped at the front door . |
| 13 | He was really a very likeable lad , though a bit mysterious and withdrawn at the deepest level . |
| 14 | Accordingly , the investor may seek to include a provision whereby if the investor wishes to sell a specified percentage of the equity , then the other shareholders must follow suit and sell at the same price per share . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , he 's very rich , of course , and mean at the same time . |
| 16 | The implicit assumption is that investors can borrow and lend at the riskless rate of interest . |
| 17 | Duties are changing and accumulating at a faster rate than they can be successfully discharged . |
| 18 | We called out from where we hid in different rooms and listened to our voices echo , we strummed on the few keys left on a rotting piano , and plucked at a broken lute … . |
| 19 | One fan sang along and plucked at an imaginary guitar , but he turned out to be the roadie . |
| 20 | Harper was standing in his stirrups , pointing and cheering at the smaller wood to the right . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's impossible to cry and inhale at the same time . |
| 22 | Experience with 761 had shown that loading and unloading at the same door was too slow on the Promenade . |
| 23 | We are both exalted and fallen at the same time : sinful and yet given unique status in the universe of things . |
| 24 | widen participation in higher education and to teach and research at the highest level ; in so doing to continue to innovate within Scottish and British Higher Education ; |
| 25 | These writings appealed essentially to a generation of students bored with academic life and attracted by the street credibility of the Situationists , and often provided students with the dubious pleasure of being flattered and insulted at the same time . |
| 26 | ‘ But the most difficult thing about this band for me is actually playing parts live and singing at the same time ! |
| 27 | He wondered if Heather , sitting in the same chair and gazing at the same view , had somehow bequeathed to him this reaction , or if it were entirely his own , a product of the self-pity Kingdom had identified . |
| 28 | But she is excellent in the play-extracts , lending Amanda in Private Lives just the right touch of acid mockery and hinting at a whole world of repressed longing as the suburban wife in Still Life ( the embryonic version of Brief Encounter ) . |
| 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 | Nevertheless they mounted and rode at a good trot up the great road towards the north . |