Example sentences of "and [v-ing] at [art] [adj] " 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 Duties are changing and accumulating at a faster rate than they can be successfully discharged .
5 Harper was standing in his stirrups , pointing and cheering at the smaller wood to the right .
6 Experience with 761 had shown that loading and unloading at the same door was too slow on the Promenade .
7 ‘ But the most difficult thing about this band for me is actually playing parts live and singing at the same time !
8 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 .
9 ‘ It 's the only castle I 've ever seen that I can imagine living in , ’ she said , standing in the upper gallery and gazing at the magnificent views from the windows .
10 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 ) .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 Cardiff saw its wildly thrashing and monstrous arms , beating and tearing at the dented grey metal of the cabinet .
14 ‘ She could write a little essay on any subject , exactly a slate long , beginning at the left-hand top of one side and ending at the right-hand bottom of the other , and the essay should be strictly according to rule . ’
15 Everybody reacted as one , condemning this nonsense and laughing at the bare-faced cheek of it .
16 He was crying and laughing at the same time .
17 When he shows a film or summat his room 's like a little cinema — you know , people sitting round watching the telly in the dark , and smoking and laughing at the funny bits and that .
18 For here his father was , sitting down beside him , hugging and kissing him , taking his hand again and laughing at the silly terrors his little game had aroused in his son .
19 Changes in proposed greenbelt boundaries affecting a given area , and occurring at the consultative draft stage of local plans and or pre-map stage and the formal deposit of those plans , and or between the deposit copies and proposals subsequently issued by county and local planning authorities by way of desired changes to deposit copies , militate against , and may totally inhibit in relation to that area , emergence within the meaning of the national doctrine most recently propagated in paragraph er within erm paragraph thirty two of the revised version of P P G number One .
20 He passed Caballeros and Bugner as they were holing out at the 15th and driving at the short 16th .
21 Nails was laughing and shivering at the same time , so excited that he felt almost ill with it .
22 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 .
23 If parents do not find time for such training they will spend more time scolding and correcting at a later stage .
24 How lovely , thought Winnie , letting her knitting fall and looking at the leaping flames , if she agreed !
25 Moi , " he knew from his reading , was an Annamese term derived from the Chinese word for " savage , " and looking at the dark-skinned , low-browed men , he could see they were of a different racial stock from the Annamese ; they wore only breechclouts that left their haunches naked and they grinned and chattered animatedly in their own language as they moved quickly about their work .
26 Then she saw how he was staring at her habit , and looking at the two grooms .
27 ‘ Well ? ’ she pressed him , sitting up and looking at the broad back facing her .
28 So I was looking at the slide sitting on the strings , and looking at the major third on the fretboard , and then I said , ‘ If only I could get this note here . ’
29 We too are part of the whole subject area ourselves : our own can be immensely varied , and looking at the various ways people have responded to the natural energies manifesting at ancient sites is central .
30 And looking at the Palestinian revolution ‘ trom a viewpoint higher than my own ’ he regards it as ultimately a revolt reaching to the limits of Islam , a ‘ calling for a revision , probably even a rejection , of a theology as soporific as a Breton cradle ’ ( p. 88 ) .
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