Example sentences of "while [pron] [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told the delegates that he was " tired of the impossible state of affairs in which I suffer bitter attacks from the outside … while I am also attacked by colleagues at home who sing the daily chorus of slander and besmirching " . |
| 2 | While I am not suggesting that you immediately dismantle an arrangement of flowers , perhaps after a day or two you could carefully remove a leaf or two , and a few flowers . |
| 3 | Such characteristics as initiative , purposefulness , persistence and self-control are developed through sport and , while I am not sold on the idea of sport as a builder of ‘ character ’ , I do believe that these capacities serve important functions in self-actualization , that tendency of all human beings to develop their full potentialities . |
| 4 | While I am not denigrating individual interpreters working for the immigration service or the Home Office , many of whom work extremely hard and do a very good job , it is essential that those seeking political asylum have an absolute guarantee that the person doing the translating is independent , is fully aware of the importance of an asylum application , is fully familiar with the cases and is somebody whose background has been inquired into to make sure that he or she is not in a position to infiltrate the immigration service and pass information back to the regime from which the individual may be fleeing , thus putting their family at risk . |
| 5 | While I am gradually declassed : mocked and spurned by all the liberties of love . |
| 6 | and I had Mike ironing them while I was putting 'em up , I said right stand here and watch me hang this curtain , so I 'm showing him how to iron it , so while I 'm upstairs putting 'em up he 's ironing |
| 7 | So while I 'm not suggesting that you buy every gauge ( though that would be many a machine knitter 's idea of heaven , I guess ! ) , when working out what machine(s) you want for the yarns you want to knit most , look at the optimum yarn for each gauge . |
| 8 | I 've got my instructions , and none of you newspaper people are getting into this college while I 'm here to stop you . |
| 9 | I have got old while I was not looking . |
| 10 | Tony and Peter were far from complimentary about the new facilities and Peter made this clear in an article in the Irish Field while I was n't asked to vote about anything . |
| 11 | The Tarn is home to many varieties of water fowl including the curlew , the greater crested grebe and the lesser spotted sandwich-pinching duck , one specimen of which had my last tuna-fish butty while I was n't looking . |
| 12 | while I was richly lined and supple , |
| 13 | ‘ My heart was hot within me and while I was thus musing the fire kindled : and at the last I spake with my tongue … ’ |
| 14 | While I was always told I talked too much , Alec was quiet . |
| 15 | SUCH is the power of coincidence that while I was actually writing the letter published on this page today — the one from a sad widow who 's beloved dog had died — a press release plopped onto my desk . |
| 16 | He claims , for instance , that when he was researching Whigs and Hunters , ‘ on several occasions , while I was actually watching , the lonely hour of the last instance actually came ’ ( Thompson , 1979 : 299 ) . |
| 17 | While I was safely locked away , I hope ? |
| 18 | ‘ — but then , while I was merely trying to relieve your pain , you were issuing the blatant invitation — ’ |
| 19 | I got to admit I did n't pop over just to offer yer some neighbourly 'elp , it was on me mind while I was there to touch you for the loan of a bob . |
| 20 | While I was still labouring away , my mother screamed in a rich contralto . |
| 21 | While I was still gazing into the water basin , the doctor then covered me with blankets , enclosing me in total darkness . |
| 22 | While I was still listening to " The Surrey with the Fringe on Top " and " Some Enchanted Evening " , rock and roll burst about my ears . |
| 23 | In February 1990 , while I was still Minister for Housing , I wrote to the Chancellor of the Exchequer : ‘ There must be a danger now of a demand squeeze turning into a real threat to supply-side confidence . |
| 24 | If she could only remember where she 'd been and how much she 's enjoying it while she 's actually doing it . |
| 25 | Whatever the reason , male marmosets have developed a rearing strategy whereby they greatly assist the mother by carrying , holding , and generally caring for infants while she is away eating elsewhere . |
| 26 | While she is away feeding they take the strange kittens and rub them gently in the bedding that carries the female 's scent . |
| 27 | While she was ponderously explaining what an LOA presentation was , they could n't probe at him . |
| 28 | While she was thus engaged Chignell had summoned the hotel doctor , who presently ushered her into his sanctum and gave her something to drink , which tasted horrible but made her feel much better . |
| 29 | He celebrated by going out hunting , while she was clearly determined to enjoy herself . |
| 30 | The events of the last year had left her mentally drained while she was physically exhausted because of her chronic illness . |