Example sentences of "while i be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But while I am looking at it my eyes constantly wander from one flower to the next , pausing at some , ignoring others , picking out the details of their shapes and colours . |
| 2 | Personally , I find that I sometimes get new ideas while I am engaged in activities that have nothing to do with my research at all , such as gardening , painting in the house , or even shaving when I get up in the morning . |
| 3 | While I am waiting on the platform , a railway employee shouts across the track that the 9.49 is cancelled , and that the next train will be at 10.19 . |
| 4 | With headaches the pain will almost always disappear ( while I am working on them ) as soon as they release the tension that has caused the pain . |
| 5 | If a car suddenly swerves round the corner while I am standing in the middle of the road , the right thing for me to do is to jump for the pavement as spontaneously as a cat . |
| 6 | One thing I must ask you about just while I 'm thinking about it . |
| 7 | I think about telling her that Andy was there , in his sleeping bag , listening the whole time , but while I 'm thinking about it something goes wrong ; there must have been a flaw in one of the glasses , or the weight is just too much , because there 's a cracking sound and one side of the pyramid starts to collapse , sending an avalanche of falling glass and frothing champagne spilling crashing down off the table and smashing , bouncing and splashing onto the mats and the floor below . |
| 8 | Thought while I 'm thinking about it I 'll do it . |
| 9 | Run upstairs on your windowsill , in the corner , cos I 've seen it Stephen , go and get his number and while I 'm thinking about it , go on . |
| 10 | Yes , just , can we just , while I 'm thinking about this , try and think of positive things . |
| 11 | It 'll soon dry on me while I 'm leaning against the cows , they 're warm , they are . ’ |
| 12 | You can do a bit more to your drawing while I 'm looking at Countdown , do you want to ? |
| 13 | That 's why I 'm so thankful that I 'm on the reading and that I like sewing , I like walking and I 've made some very nice friends within easy walking distance , I can go out and have a coffee with them , because I , while I 'm recovering from the agony 's of from the finance |
| 14 | I ca n't find out what 's going on while I 'm locked in the basement . ’ |
| 15 | While I 'm paying for your time , we 'll discuss whatever I think necessary , ’ and if that was n't enough to send her temper soaring , ‘ So , for a start , you can begin by telling me why , when I know as fact that two men at least hang their hat up in your home , you 're so intent — the glasses , the schoolmarm hairstyle — on living up to the Miss Frostbite label they 've pinned on you here ? ’ |
| 16 | And I 'm out a lot , I tend to just slurp down a cup of Slimma-soup , stick a wee dollop of quiche in the microwave or something while I 'm waiting for my Carmens to heat up . |
| 17 | I always fall off while I 'm waiting for you . ’ |
| 18 | I 'll be glad of the company , I expect , while I 'm waiting for the police . |
| 19 | Where 's my I 'm putting my lipstick on while I 'm waiting for that to take . |
| 20 | So when my dad had to ski all the way down to the bottom , while I 'm sitting on the side of this bloody slide . |
| 21 | But , in meantime while I were waiting for them to ring me I were that mad ! |
| 22 | While I was gazing at the chamber a schoolgirl who was touring the gallery with her father came up and asked me how it worked . |
| 23 | Ok , Time found hidden in a hard day , dry earth becomes a dance floor , audience of three fowl , the fourth along with a reaper turns it back , wooden shoes meant for mud , rug on dancing feet Erm the next one is the still life on , on with three puppies , while I was looking at Gaugin 's work I could n't help but notice he 's constantly struck by the fact that he use set of three symbols through out his work it seems , and very , very often three caricatures erm or lines of three or three objects and I found this very interesting , more point of view that something that I , I wanted to incorporate in my own work , but I wanted to find a line or a phrase to use in the same way , erm , all of my work starts as one or a series of visual images and , and I then turn them into characters , repeating a word or repeating a line would be a way of erm emphasising characterise erm and the puppies that are in this painting erm , they delighted my children so much , I do n't know if any of you know , do you know the painting of the three puppies |
| 24 | I wondered what he was up to when I spotted him coming back inside while I was looking for you . ’ |
| 25 | While I was looking through them , the woman , who was a friendly , cosy old body , noticed my bare hand and laughed at herself . |
| 26 | She had a few words with him while I was speaking to Meryl Armitage — a delightful girl . ’ |
| 27 | That evening while I was strolling by the sea , I felt some small twinge of sadness that I could not possess such physical belongings . |
| 28 | The SPAR system was developed at Cambridge University Computer Laboratory while I was supported by the British Library and King 's College , Cambridge . |
| 29 | While I was searching for some Arab property in the area , I had come across three young Palestinians standing beside a shabby food stall on the waterfront . |
| 30 | Violet Sangston found me while I was searching for a hiding-place . |