Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] at the same " 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 Experience with 761 had shown that loading and unloading at the same door was too slow on the Promenade .
4 ‘ But the most difficult thing about this band for me is actually playing parts live and singing at the same time !
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 And still without needing to turn my head , but looking straight to the front , and walking at the same even pace along the path , I was conscious of a man perched motionless on the top bar of the gate , one leg over , so still that he might have been part of the gate itself .
8 He was crying and laughing at the same time .
9 Nails was laughing and shivering at the same time , so excited that he felt almost ill with it .
10 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 .
11 I was shivering and sweating at the same time .
12 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 .
13 I fought for breath between heaves , snatching down flecks of vomit and coughing and spewing at the same time .
14 Ideally , you should try to dovetail selling and buying at the same time .
15 Starting and finishing at the same belay points , this gives pitch more in keeping with the overall HVS grade of the route — many feel that the original and serious second pitch should elevate the route to E1 .
16 Someone was squealing and crying at the same time , as if caught in a trap .
17 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 ? ’
18 Suddenly the anguish was gone and she was laughing and crying at the same time .
19 If Barth was now able to say at least some of the things that Brunner also wished to say , he was doing so within his own perspective — and demonstrating at the same , time that that perspective was not as narrow and restricted as Brunner had imagined it must be .
20 In the case of the curious ‘ rodent-run ’ display , it is as if the bird is running away and hiding at the same time .
21 This puts me in mind of the last Top of The Pops I watched , a show replete with beflared , poncho 'd , kaftan 'd persons doing psychotropic ‘ dances ’ , tripping out and boogieing at the same time .
22 John was burgling and dealing at the same time , so we had a regular supply , like .
23 Evening classes are a good way of meeting people , adding to your skills , having fun , and learning at the same time , without the organisational demands that a club may make upon you .
24 The densely hooded vegetation is soothing and disorientating at the same time .
25 It 's sludging and scaling at the same time .
26 … Everybody was talking and gesticulating at the same time . ’
27 I saw women dealing with having kids and working at the same time and the kids were happy because of the closeness with their mother .
28 ‘ You do n't want to listen to doctors , ’ he tells Irene , coming as close as he ever does to talking and smiling at the same time .
29 Add the oil very carefully , drop by drop , beating in between each drop to avoid curdling until about a quarter has been added , then mix in the rest , pouring it in slowly and beating at the same time .
30 Independent control of water supplies to individual sections would facilitate this and the flexibility and effectiveness of the extinguishing system would be further improved if zones could be triggered by remote manual means linked into the automatic system and terminating at the same point as isolation valves and of venting controls .
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