Example sentences of "while she [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | From this , Mrs Lamport discovered she had misread one name and her researches into Mrs Piggott were scrapped while she took up the new challenge in the name of Mrs Pigou , a theatre-goer of French origin . |
| 2 | ‘ What will you have ? ’ he enquired , going over to a drinks table while she tested out the couch and discovered that its appearance of comfort was no lie . |
| 3 | He sat on a kitchen chair while she peeled back the plaster he 'd stuck over the wound . |
| 4 | He held onto my suit while she added up the bill ( more than £20,1 could n't help noticing ) , took his money , gave him change , wrapped the flowers and poked them under his arm . |
| 5 | There was a quiet period while she put down the receiver and wrote her notes . |
| 6 | She gathered her straggly hair into a bun at the back of her head , holding it with her left hand while she pulled down the polo neck of her thin jumper . |
| 7 | Then she asked the ‘ patient ’ to hold the other end while she measured out the length again , mumbling a strange , unintelligible gibberish all the while . |