Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [art] same breath " in BNC.
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| 1 | New actors need to try and widen their range all the time and in the same breath find a way of being commercially as well as artistically viable . |
| 2 | In a single serpentine sentence Porfiry seems to dissolve into his own prose , showering Raskolnikov with a patter of tiny verbal blows as if exercising the Russian particle for its own sake ( nu da uzh ) , telling him that he considers him ‘ quite incapable ’ of committing suicide , and in the same breath to leave ‘ a short circumstantial note if he does . |
| 3 | Well , that 's the way it goes , Piper , ’ and in the same breath , ‘ look in that canvas bag on the back seat and help yourself to what you want . ’ |
| 4 | They disparage themselves for doubting and in the same breath defend their doubt like a treasured possession which nothing could persuade them to give up . |
| 5 | As Elizabeth Roberts has remarked , older women will refer to the hardness of their lot as young wives and in the same breath claim that ‘ they were good times ’ . |
| 6 | When she saw them she was going to tell them about the tea and in the same breath demand to know what they had found and why Cobalt had anticipated finding anything in the Villa Fiesole . |
| 7 | He manages to back the calls for a ban on advertising and in the same breath say this will not harm the local Rothmans factories . |
| 8 | Lawrence 's masquerade of adjustment involves a projection of his own fears , anxieties , and neurosis which , in the Swift/Celia case , is especially revealing because in the same breath he consciously repudiates the scapegoating process which partly comprises that projection ( pp. 303 — 4 ) . |