Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] while " in BNC.
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| 1 | The laughter , the irritation , of the rest of the team who were unloading while he wasted time — none of it mattered . |
| 2 | When they were prattling while they were prattling . |
| 3 | A commission financed by UNICEF arrived in the eastern Amazonian jungle region of Madre de Dios on Aug. 21 to investigate reports that children were either being killed or were dying while working as slaves in gold mines , in saw mills and on ranches , and that their bodies were subsequently being dumped in mass graves . |
| 4 | They were nearly into the spa town , and were waiting while a trolley-bus took right of way , when she saw no reason not to ask what seemed to her a perfectly natural question . |
| 5 | Foinavon chairman Alisdair Mackenzie said they were waiting while the clubs discussed the bid . |
| 6 | They telephoned me at the St. Ermin 's Hotel , where Mollie and I were staying while our house in Smith Square was under repair , to pledge their support . |
| 7 | The big nun 's arms were flailing while the other two attempted to hold her . |
| 8 | Some sweating millionaires were buying while others said they were too hot to think and would come back later — which they did . |
| 9 | She saw how it was for the others : that they were suffering while we , fortunate as we were , had enough . |
| 10 | She and Laura were chatting while Bernard went to buy a khaki-coloured safari jacket . |
| 11 | ( 15 November 1780 ) Meanwhile , Leopold continued to convey Varesco 's alterations to the text , so that his son could enter them in his own copy which he was using while writing the music . |
| 12 | Not because I wanted to go back to my childhood but because I had a deep , healthy interest in finding out a bit more about what was happening while I was growing up . |
| 13 | As has already been indicated this considerable additional development of land was happening while manufacturing employment was falling . |
| 14 | At first , we thought everyone else was booming while we were down in the dumps , but from talking to other businessmen you realise that everyone is suffering the same . ’ |
| 15 | He was waiting while his vivid red roses were wrapped in the distinctive lilac and silver paper . |
| 16 | She cut through the heady memories and concentrated her mind on what Steve was saying while she watched a superb glossy white yacht coming in to berth at the jetty not fifty metres from the window of the restaurant . |
| 17 | I was telling you , was I not , that I was seeing with exactness what the English workman was doing while we were waiting to ascend . |
| 18 | If his voice had been alright at the beginning of his performance , and yet he could hardly speak by the end , then it must be a result of something that he was doing while reciting that was causing the problem . |
| 19 | Coffin was shaving while drinking a mug of coffee . |
| 20 | He is noted for possessing a ferocious intellectual curiosity — and when I asked him what he was reading while cruising across the Atlantic on Concorde , he said without flinching , Conversations with Isaiah Berlin . |
| 21 | Then I noticed that slowly and imperceptibly the rpm was falling while all other engine indications were normal . |
| 22 | Sir Terence was talking while formally opening Teesside TEC 's business growth centre in the TEC premises at Queen 's Square in Middlesbrough . |
| 23 | He was thinking while he listened to the logical thought processes of Leon Gusev . |