Example sentences of "in [noun] while " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doing a homemade version is much more fun , as we found out at St Edwards , in Runcorn while celebrating 150 years of parish life . |
| 2 | This rule , still in existence while Visa and Mastercard fight a rearguard action with the Office of Fair Trading , prevents banks from processing card transactions until they have built up a large base of card-holders . |
| 3 | He raised his eyebrows at her nod , as if the idea was astounding , then picked up her bags in resignation while the taxi driver stared at him open-mouthed . |
| 4 | But we can say nothing to these things you know Jackson , we must jog on and be content with the jingling of the bells , only d — it , I hate a dust , and kicking up a dust , and being confined in harness while others ride in the waggon , under cover , stretching their legs in the straw at ease , and gazing at green trees and blue skies without half my Taste . |
| 5 | Kanashimiwa Yukinoyouni ( Fear Like Snow ) is number one in Japan , Das Boot ( The Boat ) is number one in Germany while George Michael and Elton John 's Do n't Let the Sun Go Down On Me is top in France . |
| 6 | Sidacai had been held in chains while he was a prisoner , and the marks of the manacles were plain upon his wrists . |
| 7 | ‘ Everyone wrote off Norwich a few weeks ago , but they beat Sheffield United in midweek while we lost , and Villa slipped up by only drawing with Tottenham . |
| 8 | Childless women declaimed prayers to the Virgin in Latin while tears rolled down their faces ; and the parents of idiot children danced with them in the market place , swearing that their little brains had been set all to rights . |
| 9 | Welfare state politics could lie in response while the engine of economic growth did its work . |
| 10 | Sometimes my brothers and I were allowed to get out of the car with him and peek at the movie in progress while he spoke to the manager or cashier . |
| 11 | Thus , the TNCs protected their monopoly in technique while appearing to transfer the technology to local people . |
| 12 | Yet Gemma had shown no more than a polite interest in Almsmead while Linnet , who was very dear but not Gemma , after all , had positively thrown herself into all the excitements of housebuilding and furnishing , taking to Far Flatley as if she had been born there . |
| 13 | Martin Frears from Cheltenham was arrested in Lugano while trying to de-program a young Italian man . |
| 14 | Tumbleweed had vanished leaving a bundle of pondweed under his chair but everybody else seemed reluctant to go and we stood about in groups while Aunt Bedelia and the ladies of the WI handed round cups of tea . |
| 15 | The Parliamentary Labour Party , despite its greatly reduced numbers , was not prepared to return to the previous Standing Orders which had allowed the ILP to put forward a distinct policy in Parliament while still remaining within the Labour Group . |
| 16 | Shimon Peres ' best chance of forming a government probably came and went when two members of an orthodox religious party caused an uproar in parliament while renegeing on a promise to join the Labour Party coalition . |
| 17 | The rasp of the Pratt and Whitney R985 radial engine is not quite so authentically nostalgic as the putter of the old Tiger Moth 's Gipsy Major , but lost of people do like to do things in pairs while on holiday . |
| 18 | For an hour the men were placed in pairs while they received basic instructions , first in defence and then attack . |
| 19 | Then the news came that Hurricane LF363 had crashed in flames while making an emergency landing at Wittering . |
| 20 | Panoramic visions of the whole village circle going up in flames while our cameras captured the moment danced before our eyes . |
| 21 | Talking Heads and The Beat are caught live in LA while cover stars Simple Minds at London 's Lyceum create a ‘ rich , unnerving sound ’ according to our chap . |
| 22 | Talking Heads and The Beat are caught live in LA while cover stars Simple Minds at London 's Lyceum create a ‘ rich , unnerving sound ’ according to our chap . |
| 23 | WHATEVER ELSE it brings , April 9 marks the anniversary of the death of Francis Bacon , the philosopher who perished in 1626 from bronchitis contracted in Highgate while he was experimenting with ways of preserving chickens in snow . |
| 24 | Conrad was securing his own interests in Alemannia while acquiring , it seems , Adelaide 's dowry in the region of Auxerre . |
| 25 | William III , helped by the ‘ Protestant wind ’ that kept the English navy pinned in harbour while William 's Dutch fleet could choose a convenient place to land , was able to carry out a successful invasion with quite a substantial military force , so the events of the 1680s underlined the possibility that James II might be able to make a successful return from exile . |
| 26 | During the war he served in the RAOC as a senior quartermaster and was mentioned in dispatches while on service in Egypt . |
| 27 | Julian Hopkins , national director of international relief agency CARE , who travelled with the Mirror team , said : ‘ To see that huge amount of food lying idle in Mogadishu while thousands of babies and young children are starving to death is an outrage . |
| 28 | To give you an idea of the margins recorded in the past between the two countries — in 1977 Romania beat Spain 76–3 in Bucharest while in Barcelona four years later they won 56–6 . |
| 29 | ‘ Let them that owns the shop watch over it , ’ Mrs Bennet said , ‘ instead of skulking in Southport while the likes of youse risk yer lives for it . ’ |
| 30 | The village felt rather as if it were a hopeful ark floating in isolation while the rest of the world was covered over , hidden from sight by watery winter . |