Example sentences of "while he [be] talking " in BNC.
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| 1 | While he was talking he went on disembowelling the bird in a practised way with his knife . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | What was he doing while he was talking to you ? " she said tightly . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He would turn his back on him while he was talking , or look down smiling into the mouthpiece . |
| 6 | 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 ? ’ |
| 7 | Noticed when he came back in the afternoon , while he was talking to Rose . |
| 8 | He was inside by then , having quietly inserted himself while he was talking . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |