Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [prep] the same [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 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I was shivering and sweating at the same time . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I fought for breath between heaves , snatching down flecks of vomit and coughing and spewing at the same time . |
| 20 | Ideally , you should try to dovetail selling and buying at the same time . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Someone was squealing and crying at the same time , as if caught in a trap . |
| 23 | 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 ? ’ |
| 24 | Suddenly the anguish was gone and she was laughing and crying at the same time . |
| 25 | In the case of the curious ‘ rodent-run ’ display , it is as if the bird is running away and hiding at the same time . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | John was burgling and dealing at the same time , so we had a regular supply , like . |
| 29 | Evening classes are a good way of meeting people , adding to your skills , having fun , and learning at the same time , without the organisational demands that a club may make upon you . |
| 30 | For economy of space occupied by the site of the lift the two inclined ways would generally be side by side and although at the same inclination and extending between the same levels they would not be in the same plane but echeloned so that the one extends , so to speak , from the right side of the head bay to the right side of the tail bay whilst the other extends from the left side of the head bay to the left side of the tail bay . |