Example sentences of "while [verb] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In her book she describes a conversation with a poet friend while resting on a climb to the top of the highest beacon in the Malvern range . |
| 2 | However , I found that my arm rested quite comfortably along the 44mm-thick body , allowing relaxed fingerstyle playing while resting on the neck-side of the pickup . |
| 3 | The government 's aim was to keep the budget deficit to within 3 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) , or GD 60,000,000 , while building on the achievements of the 1985-90 economic recovery plan ( ERP — see p. 35110 ) . |
| 4 | The citizens were literally waiting to seize the disembarking troops and bear them off to their homes for lavish entertainment , while singing on the quayside was the ample figure of Perla Siedle Gibson , ‘ The Lady in White ’ . |
| 5 | Levine , an investment banker at a prestigious Wall Street firm , was alleged to have been involved in insider trading over a period of six years , during which time he made huge profits while trading on the basis of material nonpublic information in the securities of companies . |
| 6 | When the officers were finally allowed to see Oliver , Dr Losberne said , ‘ This is a boy who was shot this morning while walking on a farmer 's property where he should n't have been . |
| 7 | A man who collapsed and died on Sunday while walking on a hill path at Braemore Junction , Ross-shire , was named yesterday as Bernard Hynes , 51 , a builder , from Rippenden , Halifax . |
| 8 | A MOTHER-of-four was crushed to death by a boulder while walking on the holiday isle of Crete , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 9 | WHILE WALKING on the pavement last month , I received injuries which disabled me for for one week caused by a mountain bike . |
| 10 | Shimon Peres ' best chance of forming a government probably came and went when two members of an orthodox religious party caused an uproar in parliament while renegeing on a promise to join the Labour Party coalition . |
| 11 | while perched on the lip of a light-aircraft ; |
| 12 | In this , they have important strengths , and they can teach students skills which courses concentrating on formal features of language often omit : how to greet people , or how to maintain polite contact while listening on the telephone . |
| 13 | 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 .. |
| 14 | On the way , one night while camping on the sandbanks , the river being now slow in the middle of the Hungarian plain ( Pusca ) , we witnessed one of the most spectacular thunderstorms I have experienced . |
| 15 | However , to interpret play as merely a stage towards , for example , the more satisfactory situation of pure verbal expression while lying on a couch , would be unfortunate . |
| 16 | Later , while riding on the crest of a wave as the gormless Frank Spencer on television , Crawford had an annexe built on to his Bedfordshire cottage and his grandmother lived there until she died , at the age of ninety-eight . |
| 17 | I was also dropped by winch onto a precariously narrow ledge , while reporting on the police rescue team in the Avon Gorge . |
| 18 | Finally , it produces thousands of young , which transfer into the next fly that picks them up while feeding on the host . |
| 19 | On the Gulf crisis , the Council denounced Iraq 's " unscrupulous use " of hostages and agreed unanimously " not to send representatives of their governments in any capacity to negotiate with Iraq the release of foreign hostages and to discourage others from doing so " , while calling on the UN Secretary-General to send a special representative to Iraq to press for the hostages ' release . |
| 20 | AMOCO , the US oil company , announced last night that it had found a new gasfield 125 miles east of Aberdeen while drilling on a prospect it has named Appleton . |
| 21 | The recognition of things creates a figure and ground relationship ( see ‘ Foveal and peripheral vision ’ ; while focusing on the object , the background is out of focus ) . |
| 22 | His wife , Mary , accompanied him on his early forays , but in 1862 , while travelling on the Zambezi , she caught a fever and died , worn out by the privations of travel and child bearing — her fifth child was born under a camel thorn bush on a trek through arid wastes of the interior ; her fourth child , born on an earlier trek , had lived only six weeks . |
| 23 | While travelling on the mainland of South America , Darwin was brought face to face with the conflict that was under way between the European settlers and the native Indians . |
| 24 | We threw parties while travelling on the tube on the good old Central Line . |
| 25 | Richard Cunningham , a botanist who had been trained at Kew by William Townsend Aiton , elder brother of John Townsend Aiton ( who had trained Gould as a gardener at Windsor Castle ) had been murdered by Aborigines only a short time before Gould 's departure while collecting on an expedition along the Murray River . |
| 26 | Once the child starts to relax while seated on the potty the parent can gradually reduce the amount of attention and start to leave the room for short periods . |
| 27 | Mannaia seem to have taken care to propose people who were indeed from the active lineages but who lived in Tazarbu , and were therefore not personally involved in the conflict with Awlad Amira : while insisting on the principle of unrelenting solidarity , they tacitly mitigated the provocation by proposing candidates who had themselves not been active in the dispute . |
| 28 | Noël Coward was inspired to write the song ‘ London Pride ’ while standing on the platform of a London station on the morning after a particularly bad blitz and seeing Londoners going about their business ‘ gay and determined and wholly admirable ’ . |
| 29 | Bees learn colour only in the final three seconds as they land : the colour visible to the bee before the landing sequence , the colours it sees while standing on the flower to feed and while circling the blossom before flying off , simply never register . |
| 30 | Punctuated by interjections from Mark , Clem told the story of how Mark had fallen into a barrel of high viscosity oil while standing on the lid to get at another barrel with his hand pump . |