Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [pron] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's great to see those guys out here , giving pleasure and enjoying themselves at the same time . |
| 2 | The Eskimos of Alaska were collecting amber and trading it at the late summer fair held at Kotzebue on the north-west coast down to recent times . |
| 3 | ‘ You 're sending it and keeping it at the same time ? ’ |
| 4 | Harvey was there in a red-coat uniform , smiling and doing his neat little dances and pretending to drop plates and saving them at the last minute , and the girls were saying ‘ Ooo ’ and slyly studying each other 's hairdos and shoes . |
| 5 | All the other times were just a way of reminding myself of the realities and provoking you at the same time . |
| 6 | If I forgive you for being male and cruel and unreasonable , you must forgive me for being female and for carrying another man 's child and wanting you at the same time . |
| 7 | Other examples in the Renaissance include the malcontent who haunts the very power structure which has alienated him , seeking reinscription within it but at the same time demystifying it , operating within and subverting it at the same time ; the revengers whose actions constitute an even more violent bid for reinscription within the very society which has alienated and dispossessed them ; the assertive women , the ‘ women on top ’ described by Natalie Zemon Davis who simultaneously appropriate , exploit , and undermine masculine discourse . |
| 8 | Some of them aid the deception by raising their tails and wagging them at the approaching attacker , while keeping the rest of the body still . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm pleading with you and mocking myself at the same time : how can you bear to resist ? ’ |
| 10 | The girl in the conservatory reached out a hand and flicked the switch , lighting them the last few yards , and floodlighting herself at the same time . |
| 11 | Twin solutions to equations ( 9.17 ) and ( 9.19 ) of equal positive and negative values of a again correspond to the possibility of feeding the symmetric section at either end and terminating it at the other end . |