Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [prep] [art] 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 It is anticipated that Group Awards incorporating these modules and relating to the same needs will be developed .
8 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 .
9 Consequently things only started to get funny around four songs in , just as the band began bringing the stops off cleanly and ending in the same places .
10 He was crying and laughing at the same time .
11 Nails was laughing and shivering at the same time , so excited that he felt almost ill with it .
12 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 .
13 What such arrangements traditionally have provided is a large group of women , related to each other as in-laws and living in the same household , who operate their own quite complex social organization in which each gains significant support .
14 The 60 interviewees were then asked to state how many of their ‘ five closest friends ’ ( of the same sex and living in the same township ) regularly used heroin during the year in question .
15 ‘ We were just the same age and living in the same hole , ’ she said vaguely .
16 Hurriedly showering and pulling on the same pair of jeans she had worn the day she 'd arrived , she jerked a baggy sweater over her head and went downstairs .
17 Acceleration can only fake gravity when the gravity is the same everywhere — equally strong and pulling in the same direction — like it is in this room , more or less .
18 I was shivering and sweating at the same time .
19 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 .
20 You would also need to study the lists to see if there is anything conditioning the sounds , i.e. if they are in complementary distribution and belonging to the same phoneme , or if they contrast in some way , thus constituting different phonemes .
21 I fought for breath between heaves , snatching down flecks of vomit and coughing and spewing at the same time .
22 Ideally , you should try to dovetail selling and buying at the same time .
23 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 .
24 Someone was squealing and crying at the same time , as if caught in a trap .
25 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 ? ’
26 Suddenly the anguish was gone and she was laughing and crying at the same time .
27 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 .
28 In the case of the curious ‘ rodent-run ’ display , it is as if the bird is running away and hiding at the same time .
29 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 .
30 The sergeant 's irritation was sharpened by Blanche lying back , eyes closed , and wallowing in the same opera music she had played the morning before .
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