Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [v-ing] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Nails was laughing and shivering at the same time , so excited that he felt almost ill with it . |
| 3 | 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 ? ’ |
| 4 | Suddenly the anguish was gone and she was laughing and crying at the same time . |
| 5 | I was shivering and sweating at the same time . |
| 6 | Someone was squealing and crying at the same time , as if caught in a trap . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It 's sludging and scaling at the same time . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I fought for breath between heaves , snatching down flecks of vomit and coughing and spewing at the same time . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | His rescuer was smiling , pulling and pointing at the tartan plaid that had protected the young Highlander in his wanderings across eastern Europe . |
| 14 | John was burgling and dealing at the same time , so we had a regular supply , like . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | If parents do not find time for such training they will spend more time scolding and correcting at a later stage . |
| 17 | Men were also in demand for fetching and carrying At a suitable moment after the meal a plate or basket was passed round each table and the guests put in their subscriptions . |
| 18 | Harper was standing in his stirrups , pointing and cheering at the smaller wood to the right . |
| 19 | The difference is that the IXI map is interactive — the user can go to any part of the system by pointing and clicking at a required position on the map . |
| 20 | Occasionally too he saw crows flocking and feeding at a particular part of a sheep pasture — sometimes at a dead sheep but more often at the placenta left behind where a lamb had been born . |
| 21 | Thought to be a Risso 's dolphin , he would meet steamers with faithful regularity , joining and leaving at a particular spot , and then bow riding at speeds up to 15 knots and rubbing his body against the ship 's hull . |
| 22 | He was crying and laughing at the same time . |
| 23 | Outside the gallery a group of curious bystanders gathered , staring and leering at the nude painting . |
| 24 | She needed to be caressed and he caressed her , massaging and pinching at the puckered rose-pink nipples , until the heat burst into searing flame and wildfire licked over her body . |
| 25 | While the CNAA had been debating and arriving at a new policy statement , a considerable diversity of approaches had developed in the institutions . |
| 26 | Duties are changing and accumulating at a faster rate than they can be successfully discharged . |
| 27 | … Everybody was talking and gesticulating at the same time . ’ |
| 28 | I 'm not a social eater and I hate talking and eating at the same time . |
| 29 | ‘ You do n't want to listen to doctors , ’ he tells Irene , coming as close as he ever does to talking and smiling at the same time . |
| 30 | Modernity began in earnest with this industrialism — like the starting up of a great steam-driven machine , straining and clanking at the mechanical bit and snorting with impatience to be off . |