Example sentences of "'s while " in BNC.
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| 1 | There will be 7–8 great trips , costing around £12–£14 per trip , although if you book them all , you will receive a reduction on the total trip cost , free entry to the Set disco as well as Tiff 's 2 , and a discount voucher booklet saving you £££ 's while in resort . |
| 2 | And that 's while he was telling me that he wanted his Harley Street centre to offer a rape examination suite . |
| 3 | Cars , of course , are also offered for comparative testing but there is usually no question of the tester -keeping the car at the end of the trial period , whereas the vacuum cleaner would not really be worth the manufacturer 's while collecting . |
| 4 | Hugh was coming towards her carrying their tall eldest , whose arms and legs fell haphazardly like a doll 's while a long strip of green weed circled her ankle . |
| 5 | The works in a collection like New Hall 's while they engage with some of these issues about women 's lack and absence from history , at the same time abrogate the very claim that women have not and can not command a semantic field which expresses their own meanings and tells their own stories . |
| 6 | Angel explained that she would be staying at her mother 's while he went to Brazil alone to see if the country was suitable . |
| 7 | Citizenship presumably had certain advantages which made it worth a man 's while taking it up , but in a period of increasing civic oligarchy one may wonder how greatly these outweighed the disadvantages . |
| 8 | Finally , the high turnover at the polls might be indicative of changes in the local population , or prudential calculations amongst particular electors as to whether it was worth one 's while trying to exercise one 's right to vote ( on the logic that people will not bother to turn up to the poll if they believe their preferred candidates have no chance of success ) ; it could equally well be indicative of various forms of electoral manipulation and influence , such as the artificial creation of new electors , the ability of returning officers to prevent one side 's supporters from polling , or the ability of some members of the local elite to " persuade " electors not to register a vote in opposition to their wishes . |
| 9 | I was just thinking about erm er y'know while it 's while it 's reasonably fresh in my mind . |