Example sentences of "while [prep] the [noun] [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In part , of course , the problem was simply that the Soviet archives were inaccessible to western scholars , while during the Stalin era the documents and memoirs published in the Soviet Union were sparse and manifestly tendentious . |
| 2 | As did the House Manager who roamed throughout performances in the foyer or the staircases , the bars of Stalls , Dress Circle and Upper Circle , keeping an eye on programme girls ( most of them certainly mature ) who , in their black dresses and little aprons , ushered , sold programmes and in the intervals brought trays of tea and biscuits ( coffee in the evenings ) , while in the orchestra pit the band ( tuxedoed , although who knew whether their trousers matched ) played pleasing music . |
| 3 | In this study the difference between conditions was that in the neutral set of slides the father was a car mechanic seen fixing an engine , while in the arousal version the father was a surgeon operating on a badly injured patient . |
| 4 | On Hutaple Crag , Ron Kenyon and Steve Reid have added Scallywag , E1 , up to the left of the crag , while in the Borrowdale area the same duo climbed Needless Sports , HVS , starting to the left of Squawk and finishing to its right . |
| 5 | Usually the right side is the purl side , while on the knit side the weaving hardly shows at all . |
| 6 | To complete the picture , the restaurant opens out onto a rooftop garden and lawn , while on the ground floor the staff have top leisure facilities including a swimming pool and sauna . |