Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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1 | He stopped walking and looked at the scrubland now directly in front of them . |
2 | Bobbing and bobbing at the well-wall |
3 | They could hear Oliver banging and kicking at the cellar door . |
4 | But what struck like an ice-cold knife into Owen 's heart was the group of six or seven men standing in the middle of the road , between him and the fire , laughing and jeering at the villagers ' puny efforts to save their homes . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | For laughing and singing at a funeral her husband gave her a reproving tap , and she had to return to her home in the lake . |
7 | Nails was laughing and shivering at the same time , so excited that he felt almost ill with it . |
8 | 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 ? ’ |
9 | Suddenly the anguish was gone and she was laughing and crying at the same time . |
10 | Eyewitnesses indicate that ‘ the couple spent three hours laughing and cuddling at a Melbourne nightclub . ’ |
11 | A small boy in pyjamas put down the basket he was weaving and looked at the face for a second or two , then turned back to his basket . |
12 | Quiss clawed at the wall , tearing the faded , yellowing books away from it , throwing them behind him like a dog digging a hole in the sand , bellowing incoherently and tearing and swiping at the wall , baring the green-black slate beneath as the torn , ripped pages fluttered away behind him falling to the grimy glass floor like some flat , grubby snow . |
13 | However , each limb can now attack , clawing or kicking at the adventurers . |
14 | He was groaning and clawing at the pillow . |
15 | I was shivering and sweating at the same time . |
16 | But certainly he 'll be pushing and pushing at the front there and making runs to get in the back all night I 'm I 'm certain of that . |
17 | Someone was squealing and crying at the same time , as if caught in a trap . |
18 | The pattern consisted of repetitive peristaltic contractions in the body of the oesophagus not related to swallowing and occurring at a rhythm of four to eight contractions per minute and lasting for periods of two to eight minutes . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | A good luncheon or supper dish — and very decorative looking when cut at the table , into the cross-slices of which Elizabeth Raffald notes that " the skin makes them look ribbed " . |
21 | It 's sludging and scaling at the same time . |
22 | There was fluid in my lungs , rattling and wheezing at every breath . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | Current Department of Agriculture inspection methods — feeling , smelling and looking at the food — were judged inappropriate as , in the case of fish , they can not not detect the toxins . |
26 | A tale of when Saltash was a busy riverside fishing town and , so it was said , Saltash lads and maidens were noted everywhere for their smart trick of turning their hand to everything , including fishing , gardening , boat building , oyster dredging and pulling at the regatta for prizes , is that of boatswain 's mate Charles Hoskins and his sweetheart , Bessie Lee . |
27 | I fought for breath between heaves , snatching down flecks of vomit and coughing and spewing at the same time . |
28 | He could imagine her posed , mouth moistly open , hips jutting and staring at the cameras with that apparently obligatory look of arrogant resentment . |
29 | Not that he was playing any flash lead parts but to keep a strong rhythm part going and sing at the same time is rather like having to twiddle both your thumbs in opposite directions at the same time . |
30 | To be fair to be fair to him I think that he would erm he 's set his heart on going and working at the lawn mower place on the production line |