Example sentences of "and [det] the while " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through the summer there were less serious , though very unpleasant , incidents — and all the while , despite Mr K 's frequent requests to Hounslow Borough Council , no one came to remove the racist graffiti . |
| 2 | She was fifteen , lithe , conscious of her own body and beautiful in her art , and all the while as the spectators ' enthusiasm grew her father watched her , drinking Jerez , nodding his head and smiling . |
| 3 | They found their way to the Railway Station and the train back to New York and all the while , Mick O'Neil was fulminating against the unfairness of the universe , particularly as it related to Detroit in the last five minutes of the game . |
| 4 | And all the while we monitor to keep tabs on what is happening and to get the feedback we need to make in-flight adjustments . |
| 5 | And all the while the shadow of the Bomb grew longer as the most powerful nations on earth stockpiled enough megatonnes to blow up the world fifty times over . |
| 6 | She looks tired , but she has control ; she pushes the younger child , answers the endless questions of the elder , and all the while senses the baby within her growing , growing . |
| 7 | And all the while the Scots cannon thundered destruction . |
| 8 | Our eyes met and all the while we were sitting down discussing what we had to do and how we were going to go about it over the four days of the course , my gaze kept returning to the sour-faced buzzard . |
| 9 | And all the while , as it had for aeons and always would , the giant battle-monastery flew onward through the lonely void , towards nowhere at all . |
| 10 | The complex procedures were executed without a hitch : artillery positions were abandoned by the British and smoothly taken over by French units ; as British battalions moved out at night , their French replacements moved in — and all the while without any sign that the Germans recognized what they were about . |
| 11 | And all the while such actions lessened the actual legal powers and authority of the king-duke , serving to encourage factional dissension within Aquitaine and , in particular , within its capital , Bordeaux . |
| 12 | The sense of effort in his conversation staggered her , and she watched him with pity , for he laboured as though he were to try to write a sonnet , and all the while the conversation was predestined , unnecessary , a mere coin of payment . |
| 13 | He began to say all the prayers to the Blessed Virgin and the saints which he had been taught at his mother 's knee , and all the while , as he prayed , he was aware that under a mile to the west lay Gribbin Head , where murder had been done eleven months before : murder he had been witness to and had profited by ; murder he had known full well was mortal sin for which , at the Judgement Seat , he would have to give account to God . |
| 14 | Over the sandy soil we walked , past Scots pines black against the night sky , past silver birch , gorse and heather and all the while we listened intently for night sounds . |
| 15 | And all the while , her son Richard was there to remind her … sleeping , waking , looking at her in that special way that was Tyler 's . |
| 16 | Tenderly , she stroked his face , running her slender fingers over the newly grown stubble on his chin , tracing the classical lines of his nose with the tip of her finger , and all the while gently thrusting herself against him , arousing him , wanting him . |
| 17 | It was not until the murderer 's long soliloquy that we were able to look around ; frozen as we were in profile , our eyes searched you out , first confidently , then hesitantly , then desperately as each patch of turf , each log , every exposed corner in every direction proved uninhabited , and all the while the murderous King addressed the horizon with his dreary interminable guilt … |
| 18 | And all the while , while he was handing him the plate of meat and bread , and while he was holding the cup to the trembling lips , a little silvery voice was beating inside Fergus 's head : this is all wrong . |
| 19 | And all the while he had been creeping up on them , unseen . |
| 20 | They were jostled and pushed , and all the while she was catching glimpses of stunning costumes . |
| 21 | And all the while I was hunting … ’ |
| 22 | We talk about London and Grand Isle , and all the while I am praying that he will ask us on his boat . |
| 23 | And all the while Shelly 's smelly libido was wafting up my nose , calling me to her . |
| 24 | So Richie 's Hotline pocket phone became the channel for a very high level communication and all the while he was standing on the grass of the main grandstand . |
| 25 | They begged him to desist , in order to give them some words of edification , and for two consecutive hours he proceeded to give them excellent exhortations , while at the same time never ceasing his writing — and all the while what he was writing was not the same as what he was speaking . |
| 26 | And all the while my mind is thinking how beside the point all this talk of happiness is . |
| 27 | And all the while , from the Saxa Salt box opposite , he watches me read , smiling his sideways smile . |
| 28 | So she sipped champagne , and smiled , and ate , and all the while her fury against Naylor simmered away . |
| 29 | She threw herself into her work harder than ever , doing anything that was asked of her , from pinning hems to sweeping the design-room floor to helping the showroom models with their make-up , and all the while she counted the days until she could leave this city and go back to New York , where she belonged . |
| 30 | It took six days to replace the locks on the car , and all the while I was worrying that the thieves might try to steal it . |