Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [prep] [art] [det] " 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 | Persian rugs have traditionally been considered the most expensive and easily re-saleable of all oriental rugs , and allowing for a few notable exceptions ( usually older and more collectable items from different parts of the world ) , this assumption has generally held true . |
| 8 | It is anticipated that Group Awards incorporating these modules and relating to the same needs will be developed . |
| 9 | I know it did n't hurt , the paint pellet hitting and exploding with no more than a mild flick . |
| 10 | I could n't help but imagine the scene of panic and desperation that must have taken place a few hours earlier - the young dolphin fighting and dying in a few frantic spasms , its grieving mother well able to defend her child from sharks but helpless against a silent , resisting wall of nylon . ’ |
| 11 | And still without needing to turn my head , but looking straight to the front , and walking at the same even pace along the path , I was conscious of a man perched motionless on the top bar of the gate , one leg over , so still that he might have been part of the gate itself . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He was crying and laughing at the same time . |
| 14 | Nails was laughing and shivering at the same time , so excited that he felt almost ill with it . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ We were just the same age and living in the same hole , ’ she said vaguely . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | His move towards contracting led to his being awarded the contract for the Llanidloes and Newtown Railway in 1855 , reaching his home village a year later and passing within a few yards of his first contract , the iron bridge . |
| 21 | As we 're gon na be commemorating and celebrating in a few moments the sacrifice to the very point of giving his own life . |
| 22 | Ten a.m. , 24th July ; just finished breakfast with the mortar team and relaxing for a few minutes over a mug of hot tea discussing the number of casualties after the heavy shelling last night . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I was shivering and sweating at the same time . |
| 26 | The three of them talked politely about horses and racing for a few minutes , before Kelly decided it was time to leave . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Presenting a good size three bedroomed semi detached property situated in this convenient location , close to all local amenities and benefiting from an own drive to garage at the side . |
| 30 | I fought for breath between heaves , snatching down flecks of vomit and coughing and spewing at the same time . |