Example sentences of "[v-ing] at the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They sat on the sofa and watched The Two Ronnies , laughing at the same jokes . |
| 2 | Israel and I were both on our knees , side by side , with tears streaming down our faces , yet laughing at the same time . |
| 3 | He was crying and laughing at the same time . |
| 4 | This is occurring at the same time as the Commission is using the single market as an excuse to augment its power for political means . |
| 5 | Frequently it is found that an accident is the result of a combination of adverse circumstances , each of which is normally containable but when occurring at the same time can lead to disaster . |
| 6 | In saying that an event c caused an event e , or that e was the effect of c , we typically have in mind but do not say that a set of things including c , but not necessarily all occurring at the same time , was required for e . |
| 7 | Did you see that one advertising triple glazing at the same time as his double would you believe ? |
| 8 | Classes help the actor to gain confidence in dealing with many things happening at the same time , and this is an important part of student work . |
| 9 | Edward Blishen , the presenter , has an enviable gift for sketching in background and perspective , drawing up different strands of what was happening at the same time to make his argument , all with ease . |
| 10 | You can not deduce from the fact that it was happening at the same time that it was a cause . |
| 11 | Yeah well this is , th this is it I mean th th there are often a lot of things happening at the same time er er some of which as you just sort of hinted at are sort of er erm of a psychological er er have a psychological factor in them which all add to it do n't they ? |
| 12 | I originally had this idea through the workers union in Manchester , and I was wondering if there were any comparative studies that were happening at the same time , and that would be really interesting to see how Oxford compares to other areas . |
| 13 | The black eyes were pouring through her , amused and oddly smouldering at the same time . |
| 14 | How often do you meet and how many people there , you 're showing interest but you 're also qualifying at the same time and it 's not padding , it 's actually useful information because you 're thinking well that 's worth pursuing the R N I , yes but there 's money there . |
| 15 | This shows the present-value profiles for two bonds A and B , trading at the same price and yield to maturity , and having the same duration . |
| 16 | The flames did help to disperse the fog and also to make the runway more visible , but of course one air field could n't hope to cope with all the 8 Group heavies returning at the same time , and things were pretty chaotic for a few hours . |
| 17 | Belinda listened on tenterhooks to one side of the discussion as Tom somehow managed to present his case forcefully while driving at the same time . |
| 18 | Somehow her own anger and his frustration together turned into a mutual all-embracing passion , and they clung together , hating and loving at the same time . |
| 19 | He had a calculator to help , but tried to keep his temper , his blood this side of boiling point and a little , at least , of social grace by listening at the same time to a Schubert piano sonata on a portable radio alongside . |
| 20 | Nails was laughing and shivering at the same time , so excited that he felt almost ill with it . |
| 21 | They are not necessarily all living at the same level on the shore . |
| 22 | Of the joint registrations made in 1989 , 72% were made by parents living at the same address , which suggests that some 50% of children born outside marriage were born to a cohabiting couple . |
| 23 | This includes two adults and any number of children , living at the same address . |
| 24 | Family Membership ( £10.50 ) covers two adults and any number of children living at the same address this new category needs to be publicised . |
| 25 | Thus Janet D. , the daughter of a cooper , and James R. , a chauffeur and the son of a flourmill warehouseman , were living at the same street number when they married in 1911 . |
| 26 | I struggled to keep my love pure , remembering at the same time something Madeleine had told me and that Rena was to repeat : ‘ What you need , Jimi , is the love of a bad woman . ’ |
| 27 | In 1946 in Milan , Werner met a young woman who was looking at the same things as he was . |
| 28 | To lie hour after hour in the same hot , crumpled bed , looking at the same crack of sky between the curtains . |
| 29 | Looking at the same issue from another angle — percentage of total taxation ( including social security contributions ) derived from taxes on household incomes — the UK was joint second in 1971 and fifth in 1978 out of ten countries . |
| 30 | Within the natural sciences there was little of that passionate and puzzled confrontation which occurs when there is a clash , not of different hypotheses , but of different ways of looking at the same problem , i.e. when one party proposes not merely a different answer , but one which the other party considers to be impermissible or ‘ unthinkable ’ . |