Example sentences of "and [verb] at the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | When I made no response he turned and gazed at the far line of coral reef that was marked by a fret of white breaking water . |
| 5 | She went up to the bedroom and gazed at the old four-poster , hardly noticing the faded splendour of its blue and gold canopy as she scrutinised the decorated wooden frieze that ran along the top . |
| 6 | It 's a thing I love and hate at the same time . |
| 7 | Even with his skills and influence at the Prime Minister 's disposal , however , by the end of January Miyazawa 's future tenure as Prime Minister appeared to be distinctly uncertain . |
| 8 | He 'd worked and taught at the Magic Theater in San Francisco ; had therapy at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur with Fritz Perls ; worked in New York with Chaikin and La Mama . |
| 9 | Christina followed and stopped at the front door . |
| 10 | He was really a very likeable lad , though a bit mysterious and withdrawn at the deepest level . |
| 11 | Accordingly , the investor may seek to include a provision whereby if the investor wishes to sell a specified percentage of the equity , then the other shareholders must follow suit and sell at the same price per share . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , he 's very rich , of course , and mean at the same time . |
| 13 | The implicit assumption is that investors can borrow and lend at the riskless rate of interest . |
| 14 | Harper was standing in his stirrups , pointing and cheering at the smaller wood to the right . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's impossible to cry and inhale at the same time . |
| 16 | Experience with 761 had shown that loading and unloading at the same door was too slow on the Promenade . |
| 17 | We are both exalted and fallen at the same time : sinful and yet given unique status in the universe of things . |
| 18 | widen participation in higher education and to teach and research at the highest level ; in so doing to continue to innovate within Scottish and British Higher Education ; |
| 19 | These writings appealed essentially to a generation of students bored with academic life and attracted by the street credibility of the Situationists , and often provided students with the dubious pleasure of being flattered and insulted at the same time . |
| 20 | ‘ But the most difficult thing about this band for me is actually playing parts live and singing at the same time ! |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | For most of those who link computing and boredom , the explanation is that they have to spend many working hours a day behind luminous screens endlessly tapping a plastic typewriter keyboard , after which they are usually fit only to go and goggle at the luminous screen in their living rooms every night . |
| 23 | It came as no surprise to mystics that DNA is found to function like a right handed helix in which each tread is of the same size and turns at the same rate of 36° per tread . |
| 24 | We all worked and lived at the same place and it seemed pretty cool to me at the time , but it started to become more and more negative until it got to the point where I wanted to leave … and I realised that they would n't let me ! |
| 25 | Most importantly , its key objective was to promote openness and trust at the top level , a refreshing contract to the dog-eat-dog approach being bred into far too many managers in this sado-masochistic age . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ I was only asking why you waste so much time stealing stuff you ca n't eat and then waste more time stealing dogs when you could steal and eat at the same time , as it were . ’ |
| 28 | It enables users to create and maintain dynamic data models that are defined and manipulated at the highest level , by category . |
| 29 | Vodafone Group Plc claims that a survey by the Office of Telecommunications shows that it provides the best quality of service available to mobile phone users : Vodafone has more than 820,000 of the 1.4m UK subscribers and in its first quality survey Oftel monitored 120 routes across the UK , finding that Vodafone had an overall success rate for call connection of 93% against 88.7% for Cellnet Mobile Communications Ltd ; some 95.8% of calls on Vodafone 's network from mobile to fixed line phones were set up and completed at the first attempt , said Oftel , compared with 92.5% on Cellnet 's network ; fixed to mobile on the same basis were 92.4% for Vodafone and 89.8% for Cellnet ; Cellnet reckons it comes out tops in trials of hand portables in the Greater London area . |
| 30 | His accuracy and stinginess with runs made him almost without equal as a one-day bowler , for he could both contain and attack at the same time since the bounce he got from his great height and the control he had over the ball gave him the extra penetration that brought wickets . |