Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] while [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am constantly ‘ working ’ with my second rod while keeping a watchful eye on my other rod which is cast into the hotspot . |
| 2 | Charlie Broadhead died on Monday 15th October while recuperating from a major operation . |
| 3 | Many little boys experience their first erections while watching their mothers dressing . |
| 4 | Kittens first purr while suckling when they are a few days old . |
| 5 | Doctor Elizabeth Howe , from Oxford , was stabbed to death last July while attending a summer school at York University . |
| 6 | He replaces Alistair Scholes , who died suddenly last month while representing the council at an energy conference in the Canaries . |
| 7 | Taylor , 47 , was taken ill last week while working on his third album in a Florida recording studio . |
| 8 | About 150 fans roared their approval outside court at the last hearing while screaming ‘ Judas ’ at Sugar . |
| 9 | Ferguson celebrated his 21st birthday while negotiating his months in the wilderness and watched Eoin Jess , who has a much sounder temperament , make a sizeable impact on the national coach at the same time . |
| 10 | Middleton had denied breaking into the bank on 6 December last year while acting with others , with intent to steal . |
| 11 | The shooting of Yusef Hawkins last year while looking for a car in another mainly white area of the city led X-Clan to organise ‘ The Taking Of The Brooklyn Bridge ’ , when 10,000 black youths occupied one of the bridges connecting Manhattan Island to the rest of New York in a living roadblock . |
| 12 | 68 year old Idris Owen receives a Gold Badge for paddling over 800km last year while spending much of his time teaching handicapped canoeists on the Montgomery Canal . |
| 13 | Orlando 's crime rate is not excessive when compared to cities like New York , Washington and New Orleans where British tourist Julie Stott from Manchester was shot dead last April while strolling through the ‘ safe ’ streets of the French Quarter . |
| 14 | George McMillan , chairman of the district council , said that the budget would produce ‘ a measure of growth for next year while keeping the council within the Secretary of State 's capping limits . ’ |
| 15 | Peter Jones , 44 , from Childwall , Liverpool , was struck by the disease of the nervous system last Christmas while working at the North-East Nissan car plant . |