Example sentences of "while he [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While he is dealing with waiting list figures , will he tell us more about the figures for day patients ? |
| 2 | While he is speaking about child deaths , will he confirm that if vehicles travelled at 20 mph , only one child in 20 would be killed ? |
| 3 | She is going about her business , while he is writing about her to the world , and we are seeing her through his eyes . |
| 4 | Their daughter , Shelagh , has moved to Belfast where she has a job in an office but her younger brother , Sean helps here and there on the farm while he is looking for some other work , sadly without too much hope , since there is already much unemployment in the towns . |
| 5 | he has problems with the e-marker , and needs , especially , to hear many of the words he misspells pronounced clearly while he is looking at them , and to have pointed out to him the parts of the word that correspond to the various sounds . |
| 6 | If the arbitrator dies or is unwilling or incapable of acting a new arbitrator may be appointed under the Arbitration Act 1950 , and at least while he is acting within his jurisdiction an arbitrator is immune from liability for negligence ( Sirros v Moore [ 1975 ] QB 118 ) . |
| 7 | It is not unusual for a receiver to continue to run a business while he is selling off the charged assets and in doing so to purchase goods on credit . |
| 8 | How can he , in logic or in practice , sustain a position whereby he is asking the Soviet Union , as was , to dismantle its nuclear deterrents while he is embarking on a system in which each missile provides the equivalent of 80 Hiroshima bombs ? |
| 9 | In another story , Frank tries his luck as a gas repair-man and , while he is working in one house , there is an enormous explosion and the doors and windows blow out . |
| 10 | Accordingly , his introduction takes the form of a long conversation between himself and an old man , a Beggar , who approaches him while he is walking in the fields after a sleepless night at Chester 's Inn , where the clerks lived . |
| 11 | So while he 's looking for you somebody could run out and kick the tin , there you go and fetch him , and if he 'd caught anybody and when you kicked that tin the other , well you could all go and hide . |
| 12 | He 's holding his hand out to me , yelling at me , but I 'm stuck there , terrified , screaming , and I do n't know what to do , ca n't think what to do , even while he 's yelling at me to help him , come out to him , get a branch , but I 'm petrified at the thought of setting foot on that white , treacherous surface and I ca n't imagine finding a branch , ca n't think what to do as I look one way towards the tall trees above the hidden gorge and the other along the shore of the loch towards the boat-house but there are no branches , there 's only snow everywhere , and then Andy stops struggling and slips under the whiteness . |
| 13 | ‘ While he 's stewing over that information . ’ |
| 14 | It 's gone dark while he 's waiting for us outside . |
| 15 | Father-of-two Andrew Morton suffered 40pc burns when a spark ignited a fuel line while he was welding in a Middlesbrough garage . |
| 16 | Wing Commander while he was recovering from his injuries . |
| 17 | The most interesting binocular object is M15 , a globular cluster not far below naked-eye visibility ; it was discovered by Maraldi in 1746 , while he was looking for a comet . |
| 18 | ‘ I met Meli twice , when I came to London while he was living with her . |
| 19 | He started it while he was living with his mother in Wimbledon , before he moved to the School . |
| 20 | The last time was during the War , while he was living in London . |
| 21 | Ill health dogged his period at St Mary 's , and he returned for a further period of treatment while he was the curate , and in September 1962 he came to Coniston as the Parish priest and significantly , no further setbacks were experienced to his health while he was living in proximity to Coniston Old Man and during the period he was Parish Priest . |
| 22 | Legend relates that while he was living in the mountains he brewed a hypnotic drink , and after drinking it fell into a deep sleep and dreamed strange dreams . |
| 23 | While he was wrestling with this problem , he happened to go to a lecture by Einstein , and was struck by Einstein 's remark that his theory of relativity would fall to the ground if any of several tests failed . |
| 24 | Does the Prime Minister recall that , on 26 February 1991 , I met him to discuss the case of my constituent , John Hall , who is seriously ill with leukaemia , an illness contracted while he was serving on Christmas island ? |
| 25 | The causal parasite , a one-celled organism which thrived in red blood cells and was named Plasmodium malariae , was first seen under a microscope in 1880 by the French physician Alphonse Laveran ( 1845–1922 ) while he was serving in Algeria . |
| 26 | Hewitt , who even kept in contact with the princess while he was serving in the Gulf , is presently based just a quarter-of-a mile from Kensington Palace . |
| 27 | WHATEVER ELSE it brings , April 9 marks the anniversary of the death of Francis Bacon , the philosopher who perished in 1626 from bronchitis contracted in Highgate while he was experimenting with ways of preserving chickens in snow . |
| 28 | While he was referring to the Prince 's fawning friends , it was interpreted as a comment on the high staff turnover at Kensington Palace and Highgrove . |
| 29 | While he was staying at Princeton he went down to Washington — he had to give a lecture at the Library of Congress , and wanted to see his cousin , Martha , there as well as Ezra Pound ; he also made two or three trips to Cambridge to visit his family . |
| 30 | Dauntless looked far from happy that a ghost-bottling session would be conducted while he was staying at the house . |