Example sentences of "[adv] while i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Let's walk up and down while I tell you . ’ |
| 2 | Ken said , ‘ I had to put it down while I put the amp into the van . |
| 3 | I set the float two inches shallower , and then lay the rod down while I spend five minutes trickling maggots down the run . |
| 4 | It was just to keep his head down while I moved . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I suggest we sit down while I explain them to you briefly . ’ |
| 6 | they had no vision of a classless society , erm , personally while I 've no desire to see uniformity , I see no earthly reason why some people because they have a lower income should be compelled to live in inferior and perhaps crowded conditions , whereas the man with five or six or seven times their income can choose a larger house in a much more delightful district and I think it is things like that that make the difference between what I as a young socialist agitator was advocating and what we find today . |
| 7 | The words tumbled over each other in her eagerness. ‘ 'T WOULD only be for a day or so while I try to get a message to the Queen . |
| 8 | I made a convincing show of joining in all this horse-play and appeared to enjoy it hugely for a week or so while I thought about what I could do to our cousin . |
| 9 | So while I take your point that you are prepared to give us all the information we seek , may I reserve the right to interrupt when it is absolutely necessary to do so ? |
| 10 | But I 'm the one who has to stand up out there and do it , and so while I take his point I have to find the right levels for myself . |
| 11 | so while I cooked you studied starcharts |
| 12 | And there was one just next to the door that must have come in while I had been lying there , unable to move . |
| 13 | Put the toast in while I take out their coffees , then put the big frying-pan on . ’ |
| 14 | The day I left school I told Granpa he could lie in while I went off to Covent Garden to fill up the barrow , but he would n't hear of it . |
| 15 | I left them together while I went to make some coffee , and when I came back into the room , Shanti was saying , ‘ Patsy , where do I get my big feet from ? |
| 16 | I took Henry back to my flat and asked him to wait outside while I went in to look . |
| 17 | I had slept for almost four hours more , made myself a mug of tea at about nine o'clock and carried it outside while I wished Mick and Paddy a merry Christmas . |
| 18 | Just sit back and take it easy while I think . ’ |
| 19 | I watched water the colour of the Thames at low tide drain away while I dried myself , and felt the horror of last night drain away with it . |
| 20 | Right now Stephen hang your cups up and put the knives and forks away while I sort this out . |
| 21 | ’ Could you take over while I go and have my lunch , you see , come on I 'll show you what to do ’ I got on the tractor , he said ’ turn in and go out round and come in again at the edge . ’ |
| 22 | I was between jobs , and I actually had enough to tide me over while I had a sabbatical . |
| 23 | Work him over while I fetch my car . |
| 24 | This is just while I remember to tell you . |
| 25 | Not while I hold on to my cottage , there is n't . |
| 26 | But if it 's a lie , then you 'll end your days as an old maid , Ann , for I 'll not marry a liar , and no other man will have you either , not while I 've aught to say about it . " |
| 27 | I wo n't ever forget you , lad ; not while I live and breathe , I wo n't . |
| 28 | ‘ Not while I have a breath in my body you wo n't . |
| 29 | ‘ Silly or not , I 'd bugger off while I had the chance , ’ she said and glanced over her shoulder . |
| 30 | Do you want to go and shimmy off while I get them ready for bed ? |