Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [prep] the [det] [noun] " 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 | Experience with 761 had shown that loading and unloading at the same door was too slow on the Promenade . |
| 4 | ‘ But the most difficult thing about this band for me is actually playing parts live and singing at the same time ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Consequently things only started to get funny around four songs in , just as the band began bringing the stops off cleanly and ending in the same places . |
| 8 | He was crying and laughing at the same time . |
| 9 | Nails was laughing and shivering at the same time , so excited that he felt almost ill with it . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | What such arrangements traditionally have provided is a large group of women , related to each other as in-laws and living in the same household , who operate their own quite complex social organization in which each gains significant support . |
| 12 | ‘ We were just the same age and living in the same hole , ’ she said vaguely . |
| 13 | The 60 interviewees were then asked to state how many of their ‘ five closest friends ’ ( of the same sex and living in the same township ) regularly used heroin during the year in question . |
| 14 | Plans for eight flats , a shop and garaging on the former Ringtons Tea site and a neighbouring builder 's yard in Oxford Road , Hartlepool , were thrown out by councillors after planners said the development was too intense for the area . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Acceleration can only fake gravity when the gravity is the same everywhere — equally strong and pulling in the same direction — like it is in this room , more or less . |
| 17 | I was shivering and sweating at the same time . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | You would also need to study the lists to see if there is anything conditioning the sounds , i.e. if they are in complementary distribution and belonging to the same phoneme , or if they contrast in some way , thus constituting different phonemes . |
| 20 | I fought for breath between heaves , snatching down flecks of vomit and coughing and spewing at the same time . |
| 21 | Ideally , you should try to dovetail selling and buying at the same time . |
| 22 | Starting and finishing at the same belay points , this gives pitch more in keeping with the overall HVS grade of the route — many feel that the original and serious second pitch should elevate the route to E1 . |
| 23 | Someone was squealing and crying at the same time , as if caught in a trap . |
| 24 | 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 ? ’ |
| 25 | Suddenly the anguish was gone and she was laughing and crying at the same time . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In the case of the curious ‘ rodent-run ’ display , it is as if the bird is running away and hiding at the same time . |
| 28 | This puts me in mind of the last Top of The Pops I watched , a show replete with beflared , poncho 'd , kaftan 'd persons doing psychotropic ‘ dances ’ , tripping out and boogieing at the same time . |
| 29 | The sergeant 's irritation was sharpened by Blanche lying back , eyes closed , and wallowing in the same opera music she had played the morning before . |
| 30 | John was burgling and dealing at the same time , so we had a regular supply , like . |