Example sentences of "[noun pl] while [pron] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Notice by the way , that you should take care not to touch the knitting , cast-on comb or weights while you are taking the lace carriage across , to avoid dropping stitches . |
| 2 | Yes , I know We 're going to be investigating some carpet shops while you 're signing on the dotted line , wo n't need me in there now will you ? |
| 3 | Excuse me , can I finish , er many of them are chained to the parent 's legs while they 're collected for these people then to bring to a circus , traumatized and chained to the ground for life . |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't put your hands over my eyes while I 'm driving , there 's a good girl . ’ |
| 5 | I closed my eyes while he was gone . |
| 6 | I 'd closed my eyes while she was cutting so I could n't see myself in the mirror . |
| 7 | Did your group follow these guidelines while it was working ? |
| 8 | ‘ It made me so angry to see her stepchildren cast as innocents while she was made out to be a dragon . ’ |
| 9 | Shut my ears while they 're going on at me , run upstairs , lock my bedroom door . |
| 10 | Colin Mackie , 26 , a self-confessed former heroin addict , told the court that Murray had injected him with heroin during drug-taking sessions while he was working as a tyre fitter with Kenway . |
| 11 | Both are possibilities but some of the smaller cairns look as though they were thrown together by walkers while they were having their tea break . |
| 12 | These processes are taking place in the minds of young readers while they are widening their world of ideas , knowledge , and understanding , of faith and belief . |
| 13 | Phyllisia faced many trials while she was growing up in Harlem , the first occurred when she was mocked by other pupils in her class , they called her ‘ Monkey chaser ’ and ‘ Teachers pet ’ because she was cleverer than the others . |
| 14 | Kubrick was working for one year with Marlon Brando on One-Eyed Jacks while I was preparing Spartacus . |
| 15 | The boys are furious when the police break their own rules by arresting them for public order offences while they are fighting on their home ground . |
| 16 | All birds are very temperamental and finicky with their food at the best of times , so I started by slipping titbits of chick under her feet while she was sitting on the glove . |
| 17 | At intervals while we were negotiating with him , he screeched his battle songs and war cries . |
| 18 | Funny little things like the way he could find a mental case to confess to every gangland killing , and the number of prisoners who had sudden heart attacks while he was questioning them . |
| 19 | Now that he was clear of the hawthorn scent of the hedge and the reek of cattle dung , he became fully aware of what had already been drifting into his nostrils while he was lying among the thorn . |
| 20 | Personally , I find that I sometimes get new ideas while I am engaged in activities that have nothing to do with my research at all , such as gardening , painting in the house , or even shaving when I get up in the morning . |
| 21 | British Leyland absorbed a massive £2.9 billion in state subsidies while it was nationalised . |
| 22 | So how do students feel when the likes of Gary Lineker , Bryan Robson , Nigel Kennedy and Lenny Henry are handed honorary degrees by their universities while they 're swotting in some squat with all the comfort and respect afforded to a New Age Traveller ? |
| 23 | Avoid places such as dry cleaners and petrol stations while you are testing out these measures . |
| 24 | In fact , I would not be able to conduct sessions of regression therapy — whether present- or past-life — if I thought that my patient was going to go through agonies while it was going on . |
| 25 | With a regretful look at her glass , and a warning glance at Lord Beddington should he tamper with its contents while she was gone — she had observed his hand stealing towards it already — she rose to make her way upstairs to the ladies ' retiring room . |
| 26 | They played all sorts of tricks while they were learning and then when they came upstairs Victor was doing an exhibition dance , a tango . |
| 27 | There are also a lot of advantages in acquisition accountancy which can provide a sort of beer mat for the first years while you are trying to put the businesses together , and of course we did n't have these in the merger . |
| 28 | It is even more rare to observe individuals while they are producing mixed messages during a meeting reflecting on their actions and the features of the organisational culture that makes the undiscussable undiscussable . |
| 29 | I watched both them and Mathews closely throughout both days while he was giving evidence , and for most of the time all three of the judges had their heads and eyes down on the notes they were keeping . ’ |
| 30 | She 's the kind of person who 'd probably forget to eat or sleep for days while she was painting , then eat ravenously for the next week to make up , if she could . |