Example sentences of "while [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | Occasionally birds disturb mulches while looking for food |
| 32 | However , they will have to satisfy unemployment benefit officers that part-time work is not their usual pattern , and they are just doing it while looking for full-time employment . |
| 33 | However , they will have to satisfy unemployment benefit officers that part-time work is not their usual pattern , and they are just doing it while looking for full-time employment . |
| 34 | However , they will have to satisfy unemployment benefit officers that part-time work is not their usual pattern , and they are just doing it while looking for full-time employment . |
| 35 | The Howard Beach outrage , when a young black man was killed while looking for a public phone in an Italian neighbourhood , provided much of the inspiration for Spike Lee 's Do The Right Thing . |
| 36 | The shooting of Yusef Hawkins last year while looking for a car in another mainly white area of the city led X-Clan to organise ‘ The Taking Of The Brooklyn Bridge ’ , when 10,000 black youths occupied one of the bridges connecting Manhattan Island to the rest of New York in a living roadblock . |
| 37 | Earlier in the day , while looking for the swimming-pool , I had found myself in a park containing the largest number of fire-engines I had ever seen . |
| 38 | Next in importance would come the discovery in 1964 of the cosmic background itself , by two scientists from the US Bell Labs , Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson , who stumbled on it while looking for ways of eliminating noise in radio receivers . |
| 39 | It was Brian , chancing to come across it a few days later while looking for some envelopes , who said , ‘ Who on earth are all these people ? ’ |
| 40 | In the pursuit of authenticity and while looking for original P-40 coolers , the reconstruction crew located a man in Alaska who , after the war , had dug up quite a bit of military surplus from land-fills in his State . |
| 41 | Chant 's body was discovered the following day by 93-year-old Albert Burke , who found it while looking for his errant mongrel , Kipper . |
| 42 | I am continually reappraising in my own mind their strengths while looking for their weaknesses ( although there are depressingly few of these visible ) . |
| 43 | While looking for Da Silva in an oak wood behind the farmhouse , Marius and I cornered Gionesca behind a lichen covered rock . |
| 44 | There was some public outcry about the shooting , and the police would probably interfere with a lot of his business interests while looking for Connie Fraser . |
| 45 | She had met the deceased while looking for accommodation . |
| 46 | Recently while looking for a book on masculinity I was advised by the assistant to look under ‘ womens studies ’ ! |
| 47 | AN AMERICAN accused of killing a Japanese exchange student who knocked on the wrong door while looking for a Halloween party said he acted in self-defence when his trial opened yesterday . |
| 48 | Authorities said 16-year-old Hattori was shot outside Peairs ' home after he and a friend , Webb Haymaker , knocked on Peairs ' front door while looking for a costume party being held in the same street . |
| 49 | Make yourself open to chance — often you will find things by accident while looking for something else , or when just browsing aimlessly . |
| 50 | While looking for food they are careful not to eat animals or human beings . |
| 51 | Northern Arts is giving the money on top of annual grants from a special Drama Production Fund , money ‘ unclaimed ’ by Newcastle-based Northern Stage after it ceased production while looking for a new artistic director . |
| 52 | The manager 's problem tonight is to find a replacement for the injured Brian O'Neil , while looking for a wholehearted performance against a side whose manager , Simon Stainrod , is as relaxed as Brady is uncomfortable . |
| 53 | He said the gear , similar to that used for sub-surface profiling while looking for echoes during North Sea exploration , is sitting unused in a laboratory . |
| 54 | Calls full of anguish , of him confessing his love for her , while imploring for time to explore his spiritual struggle . |
| 55 | He also looked for signs of abnormal radioactivity in the vicinity while seeking for the source of the heat and gas but nothing significant turned up . |
| 56 | By renting accommodation they can enjoy a short-term lease contract while saving for a deposit to be laid down on a property when the market 's future becomes clearer . |
| 57 | Right Said Fred have made it mega big in Japan — and as a result , the hit-making trio were keen to please while rehearsing for a TV show there . |
| 58 | However , facing into the wind while waiting for a launch , a tyre on the wing-tip is just a convenient way of preventing the wing from lifting off the ground . |
| 59 | He then ordered a car to call for him the next morning for a similar occasion and was felled by a stroke while waiting for the lift . |
| 60 | They range from the UK equivalent of plea bargaining to the curiosity that while Boesky , a confessed criminal , can arrange special deals with the prosecution , those charged with lesser offences have to spend three years keeping lawyers in clover while waiting for their turn at justice . |