Example sentences of "while she [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erika thawed , melted , forgave Fritz , for which he was pathetically grateful , and sent him for fruit juice while she looked for Paul who was happily playing table tennis . |
| 2 | Later , I drove her back to the flat she shared and stood leaning against some rusted railings while she looked for her keys . |
| 3 | This Monday morning she was intending to register with a secretarial agency ; a temporary job would do while she looked for something more permanent . |
| 4 | Theda held her while she fought for breath , taking in great gasps of air . |
| 5 | One day Glumdalclitch put me down on the grass in the palace garden , while she went for a walk with some of the Queen 's ladies . |
| 6 | Jane clutched her beige cardigan tightly in one hand while she searched for a tissue in her handbag with the other . |
| 7 | Folly put the phone down and sat on the bed , looking round the poky little hotel room that was all she could afford while she searched for more permanent accommodation . |
| 8 | While she queued for coffee , her friend held the handicapped child and Jean ‘ made believe she was n't mine . ’ |
| 9 | Verity wiggled her bottom , plonked it back down , calmly braked and shifted up to fifth , dawdling along behind the green Parceline truck while she waited for it to overtake an Esso tanker . |
| 10 | She wandered across the concourse to the Travellers ' Fare buffet and sat warming her hands around a cup of coffee while she waited for her train to arrive . |
| 11 | Her plan was really just to find the place , then go away and have tea somewhere while she waited for him . |
| 12 | Rosalba prayed , often , these days while she waited for Tommaso 's return to Rupe and the walk they would take together , as he had told Caterina they would , and she applied herself to acquiring those skills at crochet , at knitting , at pattern cutting and sewing that Fantina learned from her sisters , who were themselves taught by Auntie Rosa , later , in America . |
| 13 | While she waited for the water to come to the boil she put on her boudoir cap to conceal the steel haircurlers ( dragon 's teeth through the night but never mind that ) , and her Jaeger dressing-gown ( which cost the awful sum of £5 ) , and set forth for her regular deliverance on the lavatory . |
| 14 | She should have got something to drink while she waited for the chemist but she had n't thought of it then . |
| 15 | Accordingly he disappeared into the upward-travelling lift , while she waited for one to take her down a floor where a corridor linked this building to the next one , in which the twenty-four-hour blood bank was located . |
| 16 | The words finished on a long , drawn breath while she waited for the words she had no wish to hear . |
| 17 | The car was locked , and she was forced to sit on a low wall that surrounded the garden while she waited for David to return . |
| 18 | She felt she was in a private hell of her own on Saturday morning while she waited for Naylor to call . |
| 19 | By ten to two she had deposited the larger of her two suitcases , had partaken of a cheese sandwich and a cup of coffee and , seated in the hotel lounge , and with time to kill while she waited for Ven , she was again being plagued by the vexed question of that abominable interview . |
| 20 | HOSPITAL officials have pledged to investigate allegations that a 90-year-old patient was not properly cared for while she waited for an operation . |
| 21 | while she yearned for the insect dance |
| 22 | She cut the ropes with the knife he 'd given her , and wondered at the strange types of deviation men dreamed up ; deviations she 'd have to endure while she worked for C 's Circus . |