Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] while [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The air pressure forced me to my knees and I watched while the wind screwed great oak trees out of the earth and then dropped them in a mess of green leaves and splintered wood . |
| 2 | Once in the car-park I waited while the men unloaded the coffin . |
| 3 | Finally , I left hospital and joined a community near Banbury in Oxfordshire , most of which disbanded while the remainder came here to Glastonbury . |
| 4 | Independent events are those which are most unlikely to have been brought about by the behaviour of the respondent , such as a husband 's car accident which happened while the woman was at home . |
| 5 | Survivals include the Cambrian Coast , radio signalled in 1988 , where Barmouth viaduct was after all repaired , the Central Wales where a decision was taken to rebuild the bridge which collapsed while a train was crossing it in high flood , and the Settle & Carlisle where the government perhaps surprisingly refused closure . |
| 6 | Anyone who spoke while the results were being read would receive a snarl of disapproval . |
| 7 | A few months before , when she was much younger , she would have screeched this aloud and brought the breakfast table to an uproar , but now she smiled while the coldness took careful and eternal appreciation of the fact that he had been flattered to be asked . |
| 8 | Her gown had a train which brushed the floor , and she waited while the woman following her looped it up into neat folds and attached them to the fastening at her wrist . |
| 9 | Stripped to the waist , one dug while the other stacked . |
| 10 | One worked while the other watched , clutching his grotesquely enlarged erection . |
| 11 | One rowed while the other held a rope over the stern . |
| 12 | We waited while the ‘ phone receiver , now held aloft in Murray 's hand , spluttered and then was silent . |
| 13 | Again , there was a slight hiccup when the entire Leyland Class 155 fleet were withdrawn for almost a year with door troubles ; they opened while the train was running . |
| 14 | They paused while the two players chose clubs for their second shots . |
| 15 | And other royals such as Prince Charles are likely to cancel any leisure plans they had while the family crisis summit goes ahead . |
| 16 | They waited while the mist cleared a little in the valley , and the cows in the field raised themselves awkwardly , leaving patches of crushed grass , and began to graze . |
| 17 | His first important conservation scheme in Leeds was for the conversion of St Paul 's House , a Moorish-style Victorian warehouse in Park Square , which he designed while an Associate at Booth Shaw and Partners in 1970 . |
| 18 | One man who , greatly to the relief of his family and parishioners , did not see the burning , for he died while the rebels were on their way , was the minister , William Reid . |
| 19 | It appeared while the European Commission had yet to approve the £600 billion fusion budget . |
| 20 | Our rambling sketcher did n't , alas , go in himself and record the young phenomenon with his pencil ; but he waited while a French cavalryman paid his penny farthing , entered the caravan , and emerged mouthing ‘ some very choice Norman phraseology ’ . |
| 21 | He waited while the Inspector got them down . |
| 22 | He paused while an ironic cheer went up . |
| 23 | The question which arose in those cases was whether the cessation of trade , in the sense of ‘ putting the shutters up , ’ immediately deprived the court of bankruptcy jurisdiction over the married woman , or whether it continued while the trade debts remained unpaid . |
| 24 | Sir John Pope Hennessy , an Irish adventurer , successfully claimed immunity from arrest for the recovery of the huge debts he accumulated while the Member for King 's County in the 1860s . |