Example sentences of "[noun pl] while his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obediently Thacker closed his eyes while his curious companion rummaged through one of many hiding places and produced a dark bottle . |
| 2 | This season Murphy has already sent out 12 winners while his boss is often left to drive the horse-box and saddle up in the parade ring . |
| 3 | It may be that some of our roles conflict ( e.g. parental responsibilities might conflict with commitments at work ) or different groups might impose conflicting expectations in relation to one particular role ( e.g. in a man 's role as shop steward the managers might expect him to calm disputes while his work-mates might demand that he never compromise with the bosses ) . |
| 4 | The winner will stay in a top London hotel and receive top-to-tail grooming at Peter 's Posh Pets while his or her owner enjoys the human equivalent at Harrods . |
| 5 | She raised her face to him like a shy virgin , and he kissed her passionately on the lips while his fingers busily freed her of her underwear . |
| 6 | His mouth prevented her from replying , violently possessing her lips while his hands roughly sought to drag off her bodice completely . |
| 7 | ‘ Naylor , ’ she whispered , and knew yet more rapture when his mouth returned to take her lips while his warm and gentle hands caressed in sensual , skin-tingling movement from her throat , over her shoulders , down to her waist , and then , in a wonderful touch , upwards to capture her breasts . |
| 8 | fish and chips while his . |
| 9 | Alan Cooke , who has the disadvantage of playing ‘ cold ’ in the doubles while his opponents are invariably warmed up from previous games , hit a cascade of winners in the crucial mid-match doubles . |
| 10 | A bad drive down the 10th , from which he was lucky to make five , stopped him in his tracks while his double-bogey five at the 12th was the last straw . |
| 11 | He lived for another four years while his empire lapsed into chaos . |
| 12 | Jamie was off work for three days while his bike was patched up . |
| 13 | Hymns was an alternately brutal , comic and touching study of pubescent schoolboys while his new work , dull morning cloudy mild , stems from the diary of an old man whose memories are bound up with his obsessive recording of the weather . |
| 14 | At Milan he took high-speed films while his animals ran along the force plates . |
| 15 | Robertson Nicoll 's daughters married army officers while his son became a physician ; J. H. Paton 's son became High Master of Manchester Grammar School ; Silvester Horne 's eldest daughter went up to Oxford while one son became a barrister and the other , Kenneth , the star of BBC Radio 's ‘ Round the Horne ’ series , programmes which did not always accord with the Nonconformist Conscience . |
| 16 | The House must ask that question , given that the hon. Gentleman is asking about vetoes while his party is in favour of lying down and being rolled over . |
| 17 | Rather be back in Athens , stuck in the Hotel Abrawang with Fat Alex goggling at lesbian snuff movies while his wife pored over back issues of the Puzzler through her magnifying glass . |
| 18 | This ‘ leadership ’ , however , is not that of a gallant subaltern , charging the machine guns while his platoon has a smoke in the dug-out . |
| 19 | Mr Arafat 's advisers in Tunis could scarcely choke back their emotion as they answered reporters ' questions while his fate was uncertain . |
| 20 | Thijs Lijbregts , who took over from Rinus Michels after Holland won the European Championship , has the additional pressure of managing one of the fancied teams while his best player , Ruud Gullit , is struggling to recover from a knee injury that has so far necessitated four operations and is threatening his career . |
| 21 | Just as Jennie had been on the sidelines while his first wife was alive , Mary became his mistress almost immediately he went through his second marriage ceremony . |
| 22 | Guitarist Kendall Jones plays the straight man , articulating Fishbone 's mix-and-match musical philosophy in earnest , common-sense terms while his colleagues lark about with frantic abandon — particularly livewire vocalist Angelo Moore . |
| 23 | He was a fine supplier of telling , passes to his forwards while his confidence and authority were magnificent . |
| 24 | One of the greatest private European drawings collectors of this century , Frits Lugt ( 1884–1970 ) also collected prints , paintings , artists ' letters , frames and Indian miniatures while his book on collectors ' marks remains the standard reference volume . |
| 25 | His cartoons regularly appear in national newspapers and magazines while his 15 books in The Crazy World series sell at home and abroad . |
| 26 | By 1985 he had been relegated to a place in the wings while his wife , now a media star , glowed . |
| 27 | Her brother had taken the opportunity to entertain a large group of teenage friends while his parents were out of the country . |
| 28 | He is often so busy that the less powerful males are able to disappear into a corner and copulate with his favourite females while his back is turned . |
| 29 | Mr Major enjoys chicken tandoori while his wife Norma loves a korma . |
| 30 | His 259 Palace appearances keep him high on our all-time charts while his 90 League goals still remain the club record in the post-war era . |