Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stopped walking and looked at the scrubland now directly in front of them . |
| 2 | Bobbing and bobbing at the well-wall |
| 3 | They could hear Oliver banging and kicking at the cellar door . |
| 4 | But what struck like an ice-cold knife into Owen 's heart was the group of six or seven men standing in the middle of the road , between him and the fire , laughing and jeering at the villagers ' puny efforts to save their homes . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Nails was laughing and shivering at the same time , so excited that he felt almost ill with it . |
| 7 | 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 ? ’ |
| 8 | Suddenly the anguish was gone and she was laughing and crying at the same time . |
| 9 | A small boy in pyjamas put down the basket he was weaving and looked at the face for a second or two , then turned back to his basket . |
| 10 | Quiss clawed at the wall , tearing the faded , yellowing books away from it , throwing them behind him like a dog digging a hole in the sand , bellowing incoherently and tearing and swiping at the wall , baring the green-black slate beneath as the torn , ripped pages fluttered away behind him falling to the grimy glass floor like some flat , grubby snow . |
| 11 | He was groaning and clawing at the pillow . |
| 12 | I was shivering and sweating at the same time . |
| 13 | But certainly he 'll be pushing and pushing at the front there and making runs to get in the back all night I 'm I 'm certain of that . |
| 14 | Someone was squealing and crying at the same time , as if caught in a trap . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It 's sludging and scaling 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 | In the early Liverpool days of Big Flame the comrades had been obsessed with the potential of Ford workers as leaders of the British revolution , and had put great effort into organizing and recruiting at the local Halewood plant . |
| 19 | Current Department of Agriculture inspection methods — feeling , smelling and looking at the food — were judged inappropriate as , in the case of fish , they can not not detect the toxins . |
| 20 | A tale of when Saltash was a busy riverside fishing town and , so it was said , Saltash lads and maidens were noted everywhere for their smart trick of turning their hand to everything , including fishing , gardening , boat building , oyster dredging and pulling at the regatta for prizes , is that of boatswain 's mate Charles Hoskins and his sweetheart , Bessie Lee . |
| 21 | I fought for breath between heaves , snatching down flecks of vomit and coughing and spewing at the same time . |
| 22 | He could imagine her posed , mouth moistly open , hips jutting and staring at the cameras with that apparently obligatory look of arrogant resentment . |
| 23 | Not that he was playing any flash lead parts but to keep a strong rhythm part going and sing at the same time is rather like having to twiddle both your thumbs in opposite directions at the same time . |
| 24 | To be fair to be fair to him I think that he would erm he 's set his heart on going and working at the lawn mower place on the production line |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | His rescuer was smiling , pulling and pointing at the tartan plaid that had protected the young Highlander in his wanderings across eastern Europe . |
| 27 | John was burgling and dealing at the same time , so we had a regular supply , like . |
| 28 | The former eco-terrorists , feared for their readiness to ambush government whenever it marched into the green province , had suddenly become people worth informing and consulting at the highest level . |
| 29 | They found a pocket of spring/summer oscillation and camped overnight there , conscious that just yards away a biting winter was flaring and dying , the trees sprouting , then blackening again , as if the buds were tiny creatures , grasping and snatching at the light , then quickly tugging back into their wood-bark holes . |
| 30 | Alexei signalled to one of the engine tenders , and the man fiddled with the levers so that the rods rising and falling at the top of the funnel slowed jerkily and then stopped . |