Example sentences of "while she " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So , ’ said Milsom patiently , ‘ what was the doctor doing while she was talking ? ’ |
| 2 | She was a somewhat intense woman who probably rather enjoyed such gatherings , but I 've often wondered if she secretly used them as a ruse to get her husband home to mind the little one while she nipped out for a breather . |
| 3 | A woman who takes five or more alcoholic drinks a day two or three times a week while she is pregnant is at a very high risk of harming her baby . |
| 4 | But while she was setting out plates , a tongue of fury ripped along her spine . |
| 5 | While she burned to have Lucy make love to her , that sudden in control precision made her say : |
| 6 | ‘ An early night for me , ’ was the next thing from him , while she stayed as always , to complete the Guardian crossword . |
| 7 | Luke had disappeared while she was talking to Godfrey . |
| 8 | He kept his face averted while she drew nearer but when she was nearly beside him he turned it to her almost defiantly . |
| 9 | She must have saved herself about thirty pounds a week having you there , because she used to pay her neighbour to look after the two children for her while she was out at work . ’ |
| 10 | Just as Marjorie stayed up all night while Lizzie was recovering from a womb infection , so Lizzie stayed by Marjorie 's bedside while she recuperated after a gallstone operation . |
| 11 | Her actions are unquestionably deedy ; they bear no theoretical burden , unlike Kirillov 's suicide ; they run deeper — while she is on the job — than the paper person in her , and they make a rigid , final opposing of the profane midwife and the God-seeking husband academic and quite inadequate to the novel . |
| 12 | She had left her son Mark , aged 13 months , with her sister , Georgina Gough , 11 , in the broken down Marina car , while she walked the half-mile to the emergency telephone . |
| 13 | Richardson , 37 , who met the the girl while she was walking her dog beside the river near her home in King 's Lynn , Norfolk , was given a 16-month sentence for having sex with a girl under 16 , the legal age of consent . |
| 14 | While she scored above eight on several factors , the judge was particularly concerned with her score of around six-years-old on the ability to answer questions . |
| 15 | Here was a lady who at the age of 50 had certainly decided to quit while she was ahead , and her moving and musically thoughtful recital confirmed it . |
| 16 | Mrs Page-Alucard had apparently been murdered while she was working alone at the centre . |
| 17 | But it is she who has created an atmosphere in which it is possible for her most senior minister to be publicly rubbished while she escapes without blemish or stain . |
| 18 | If you already pay your employee any money while she receives SMP , for example , occupational maternity pay , this will count towards your SMP payment for the same week . |
| 19 | Mrs Thatcher claimed to have read Hayek 's Road to Serfdom while she was still a student at Somerville College , Oxford , just after the war ; but it was not until the 1970s , while in opposition , that she seems to have read Hayek 's writings more generally . |
| 20 | ‘ Liberalism alone is the great Lady Surgeon of a nation 's maladies , and while she is temporarily abed with a broken limb , the nation is the sufferer ’ ( Ramsey in the Gownsman , 6 December 1924 ) . |
| 21 | He wrote to Fisher that while she might never be strong , her health did not depend upon locality . |
| 22 | Then I went back to rehearsing with the band while she sat around listening . |
| 23 | Shortly after the abolition of the CPRS , Professor George Jones noted : ‘ While she has been strengthening her own personal staff resources , she has weakened those at the disposal of her Cabinet colleagues for the performances of their collective deliberations by abolishing the CPRS . |
| 24 | Phoebe could not , try as she might , despise it for her , because it was so obviously making Lisa happy ; while she , clinging to a nostalgic and increasingly sentimental vision of the household , was patently not happy , not useful , and not passionate . |
| 25 | There she was , ably supported by active and intelligent people while she sat at home feeling cold and tired and guilty . |
| 26 | All right then , she thought , her courage high , she had also been extremely happy while she was having her affair with Tom . |
| 27 | She was not afraid of the dark , because when she was very little Maggie had had the last few scales of Fenna 's tail to suck on while she fell asleep . |
| 28 | And even while she remembered , she was also scared by the mystery of the moonlight , by the disorientation and , above all by her daughter 's screams . |
| 29 | Phoebe wrapped Maggie in her towel and called Rachel to come and hold her while she found them both some clothes . |
| 30 | The park , unlikely though it might seem , was not a job , not a political ideology , not a way of filling in the weary hours until she was old enough to retire , not even something to spite her mother with once and for all while she accepted everything else from her . |