Example sentences of "while [noun prp] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Ipswich knocked out Hightown last week in a tense but skilful game , while Chelmsford disposed of the mighty Slough after a penalty shoot-out at Chelmer Park .
2 Max rang to wish me a merry one , followed by Lee and my sister-in-law , Maureen , and while Kenneth snoozed beside me I rang my ‘ lot ’ , culminating in a long chat with my lovely ex mom-in-law .
3 John talked , quickly and urgently , while Patrick drove along the M4 , crossed the Chiswick and Hammersmith Flyovers and slowed down for the traffic in Cromwell Road .
4 Jonathan charts the painful break with union which it seems remains his first love — while Corrigan delves into the psychology of a man who temporarily split up with his wife , Karen , as a result of the grinding pressures of the modern game .
5 While Madeleine snored in the bottom bunk Léonie fought to keep awake , to know the exact moment when , in the very centre of the Channel , precisely equidistant from both shores , the walls of water and of words met , embraced wetly and closely , became each other , composed of each other 's sounds .
6 The Soviet Foreign Minister Boris Pankin also visited Jerusalem , on Oct. 17 , and met with Israeli Foreign Minister David Levi , while Baker met with Prime Minister Itzhak Shamir .
7 Within Outer London , the experience of Bromley and of Newham are almost mirror images : Bromley did relatively badly in the first and third periods and well in the second , while Newham gained in the first and third periods , but had the smallest increase in the second .
8 His mother was leafing through a huge pile of correspondence , the wire-framed spectacles perched on the end of her nose threatening to fall off at any moment , while Senga sat beneath the window , copying verses from an open Bible .
9 First on the scene with punk , while NME argued over Supertramp 's ‘ latest waxing ’ !
10 Tom now spends most of his time in Los Angeles while Lynda lives at their mansion in the Vale of Glamorgan .
11 Tracie is still staying at the £750,000 house with the children while Davidson lives in hotel rooms .
12 Felix 's wife started talking about poetry , which she wrote , while Felix shouted about his last visit to Castro .
13 There was a moment of silence while Lisa took in this frankly astonishing piece of information .
14 Mrs Hurkett and Sharon died instantly while Lisa died in hospital four days later .
15 Robert knew , as he waited while Lalage laughed with some stranger , that he was standing near a death-bed .
16 While Almond aims for tacky , spunky cabaret rock , he 's about as subversive as Come Dancing .
17 But while Whitehall changed from organizing public expenditure on an annual basis to a five-year rolling programme , the House of Commons was still authorizing expenditure on the old twelve-month pattern .
18 Next morning Helen set off early to see Joanna while Sophie dealt with several clients who , having heard of Joanna 's accident , were sympathetic and concerned .
19 His younger brother Fitz , who had been running on the ground , now took over Kendo 's role and chased the monkeys further , while Kendo followed on the ground , along with Macho , Ulysse , Brutus and several females .
20 The dancers engage in playful sport , dressed in simple turtle-coloured costumes , while Wagoner stands at the back as some kind of pondering philosopher figure .
21 Rosie was lounging on the couch in an orange silk shirt-dress , drinking cola from a can while Francisco sorted through the stack of CD discs .
22 Earlier , while Faldo prospered with a blistering outward run of 32 , it was all Tryall and error for crumbling Couples .
23 At any rate , in we went , and soon I was happily splashing around the creeks while Kodiak plunged after sticks thrown by his mistress .
24 Demonstrations throughout April and the first part of May organized by activists opposed to ( ex-Communist ) President Rakhmon Nabiyev 's regime culminated in the formation of a coalition government , announced on May 11 , in which eight of the 24 ministerial posts went to opposition members , while Nabiyev remained as President .
25 Relations with the Vatican had been broken off in 1861 but Pope John Paul II visited Mexico in 1990 [ see p. 37475 ] while Salinas went to the Vatican in July 1991 .
26 BBC1 is very popular , while UTV goes into well over 50pc of homes in the Republic .
27 After that came a stint in the ambulance service , while Jean worked for a catering business .
28 Soon after our conversation was interrupted by my flailing attempts to follow Grond while Pat scampered after me on what appeared to be a completely different route .
29 Rainey 's Italian team-mate Luca Cadalora won today 's event , holding off a late charge by Doohan while Schwantz settled for third after throttling back because of problems with his front tyre .
30 While Gorbachev called for superpower collaboration to " make [ the world ] more calm and reasonable " , Bush sought to assure the Soviet Union that " the West [ sought ] no advantage from the extraordinary changes under way in the East " .
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