Example sentences of "while [pron] was talking " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few years later , while I was talking at a meeting on educational reform , a local superintendent of schools rose from his seat in the back of the room and , moving to the door , said scornfully , so that many could hear , ‘ Well , back to reality ’ . |
| 2 | While I was talking to Metsola one day he swallowed some medicine . |
| 3 | I sat in my chair with my face close to the table , and while I was talking to one group of visitors , the others used to drive round the table . |
| 4 | While I was talking , the King was making notes . |
| 5 | I think she wrote it while I was talking to the doctor , crying my eyes out . |
| 6 | No , and I had I er I had tried to appeal to him to be quiet , he said well I 've got to build this shed , I said well it do n't have to be during the night when other people are trying to sleep , he said well that 's up to them , and he started hammering again , while I was talking to him , and then I kept on and on and eventually , I think while I was talking to him I 'd kept him quiet while I was talking to him . |
| 7 | No , and I had I er I had tried to appeal to him to be quiet , he said well I 've got to build this shed , I said well it do n't have to be during the night when other people are trying to sleep , he said well that 's up to them , and he started hammering again , while I was talking to him , and then I kept on and on and eventually , I think while I was talking to him I 'd kept him quiet while I was talking to him . |
| 8 | No , and I had I er I had tried to appeal to him to be quiet , he said well I 've got to build this shed , I said well it do n't have to be during the night when other people are trying to sleep , he said well that 's up to them , and he started hammering again , while I was talking to him , and then I kept on and on and eventually , I think while I was talking to him I 'd kept him quiet while I was talking to him . |
| 9 | I still have to stitch er , erm my cardigan up for Melanie but erm it was easy to start off the other one while I was talking to your mother . |
| 10 | Your Pat said to me on Sunday while I was talking to her , she said , when she was saying oh well she does n't know whether to vote Tory because |
| 11 | tickling her while I was talking to on the phone ! |
| 12 | jumping around while I was talking to her on the phone , I was getting so pissed the phone . |
| 13 | ‘ So , ’ said Milsom patiently , ‘ what was the doctor doing while she was talking ? ’ |
| 14 | Luke had disappeared while she was talking to Godfrey . |
| 15 | Oddly enough , it was not during one of these silences but while she was talking that her eyes closed and her shallow breathing became deeper . |
| 16 | While he was talking he went on disembowelling the bird in a practised way with his knife . |
| 17 | While he was talking he noticed scratch-marks on the water , hundreds of white gashes , and suddenly the captain 's voice , crackling over the intercom , interrupted him . |
| 18 | What was he doing while he was talking to you ? " she said tightly . |
| 19 | In desperation , he might appeal to witnesses who had seen me sitting on the bench in the park while he was talking to my double outside . |
| 20 | He would turn his back on him while he was talking , or look down smiling into the mouthpiece . |
| 21 | Bob 's phone rang , and while he was talking Dyson , who was sitting back in his chair and waiting for someone at the other end of the line , covered up the mouthpiece of his phone and said , ‘ Are you coming to the funeral , Tess ? ’ |
| 22 | Noticed when he came back in the afternoon , while he was talking to Rose . |
| 23 | He was inside by then , having quietly inserted himself while he was talking . |
| 24 | While he was talking to her , Melissa took the twins out of the pushchair and began to carry them around the store , one balanced on each hip , until she found somewhere to sit down . |
| 25 | and while he was talking to the woman he saw in the hall an elderly woman , and he said to the woman at the door , is that your mother , she said oh yes she 's with me now , she used to live at Woodbridge . |