Example sentences of "[adv] while [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wearing of breathing apparatus , although necessary , was known to be risky ; the trapped men were not accustomed to the equipment and anyone who has used it knows how alarming and claustrophobic the experience can be ; the effect can be a compelling desire to rip off the apparatus and if one of the trapped miners was to do so while passing through the gas in Bank mine , death would be almost instantaneous . |
| 2 | how you can persist in being so utterly incompetent bewilders me , and so while indulging in a little light entertainment in the ZZAP ! offices ( brutally torturing the staff for being human ) I decided it was time I found a solution to the problem . |
| 3 | She Caught The Katy meanders along while Messin' With The Kid and Texas Flood are too bluesy and should have been left off the tape . |
| 4 | If Bourke recorded some of these conversations with Blake in October he would have had to take a battery-operated audio recorder with him across the common , as well as the two-way radio , and link the two together while lying in the grass talking to Blake . |
| 5 | Couch potatoes can run the London Marathon , take an in-depth reccy around St Paul 's , and do nine rounds with Chris Eubank , all while tucking into a freshly-delivered deep-pan ! |
| 6 | As is the way with people who undertake these , epics , the accident happened as a result of slipping over while going for a beer with Colin Broadway . |
| 7 | Did we ever use those battered pots , I wondered once while rummaging in the basement . |
| 8 | ADRIANA DUFFY , the 18-year-old American gymnast , broke her neck in Stuttgart yesterday while training on a vaulting horse for the World Championships which begin tomorrow .. |
| 9 | Later while training as a deaconess in London she saw his funeral in 1912 . |
| 10 | Finally , it produces thousands of young , which transfer into the next fly that picks them up while feeding on the host . |
| 11 | And then they wonder why they get beaten up while walking down the street at one in the morning . |
| 12 | During the day a Cant Z.501 flyingboat of the 184 a Squadriglia R.M. was also lost , apparently to Malta fighters , and probably while searching for the downed German aircrew ; the crew of this aircraft were rescued near the Sicilian coast . |
| 13 | ‘ We have tried to strike a balance between replacing what was there originally while looking to the future , ’ said curate , Fr Anthony O'Connor . |
| 14 | Belinda listened on tenterhooks to one side of the discussion as Tom somehow managed to present his case forcefully while driving at the same time . |
| 15 | As I said , I think that this issue is of very considerable constitutional importance , because the effect of the judgment is to separate the activities of a Minister acting under his own name from those carried out while acting as a Minister of the Crown . |
| 16 | Most of the Vietnamese in Hong Kong arrive in tiny boats with barely enough space to stretch out while sleeping on the decks . |
| 17 | The girl , who was pounced on while waiting for a train at Mexborough , South Yorkshire , was treated in hospital for head wounds . |
| 18 | My dressing room is tiny — six feet square — and Cats has to sit on the floor of the Green Room propped against my open door , writing furiously while coping with the pranks of the dwarfs . |
| 19 | Earlier , five unarmed demonstrators were reportedly shot dead in late April in Manfalut , south-west of Cairo in the Fayourn region , reportedly while protesting at the banning of a traditional Moslem festival . |
| 20 | ‘ What , exactly , does this office job entail ? ’ she demanded coldly while glancing round the room . |
| 21 | Even while moving to the Left , trade-union activists remained hostile to Lenin 's fierce factionalism . |
| 22 | As well as being appropriately dressed you should also be aware that you may have been noted even while looking at the agency 's window display . |
| 23 | So it is worth bearing in mind , when considering the later reign of ‘ the Scot who was a Frenchwoman ’ , that the story of Albany frantically ‘ cramming ’ on Scottish chronicles on the ship which brought him from France is a good pointer to the attitude of a man who managed , with some success , to understand and deal with the domestic problems of Scotland , even while caught in the intolerable welter of shifting relations between France and England , with their rival demands for Scottish support . |
| 24 | His role as peacemaker came about while working as an electricity consultant and economist developing ten year energy projects to boost Third World economies and stop fighting between neighbouring countries . |
| 25 | Since then he has held a number of positions both in this country and abroad while serving with the RAF . |
| 26 | The main tube has to run freely while suspended on the kiteline , so pulleys are used at each of its ends . |
| 27 | Recently while looking for a book on masculinity I was advised by the assistant to look under ‘ womens studies ’ ! |
| 28 | Why are you concerning yourself about these matters ? she queried mentally while staring at the typewriter . |