Example sentences of "while [pers pn] be [v-ing] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There is no point ’ , she said , ‘ in you sitting in class doing nothing while I am teaching the rest of the form the two-times table and how to spell cat and rat and mouse . |
| 2 | ‘ While I am pursuing the offender I do not want blood on the streets . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ That 's a police whistle in case I 'm attacked while I 'm collecting the week 's takings . ’ |
| 4 | And while I 'm focusing the overhead , this is the er , this is a postcard that er , a student did this course some years ago , sent me from the U S. |
| 5 | erm and with this money that I 'm going to earn in the first six weeks and then possibly erm getting a job while I 'm doing the correspondence course erm you know even if it 's just bar work and especially |
| 6 | No , use that while I 'm doing the entertainment . |
| 7 | Hellen , Wally and Oscar were producing films all over Canada and while I was enjoying the hospitality of Shelly Films I was also enjoying the pleasant company of Hellen Semmens . |
| 8 | Perhaps I take a special pleasure in Cold Comfort Farm from the fact that I was myself brought up in a rural setting , surrounded by wild-eyed manic depressives of the Starkadder school , while I was reading the works of D.H.Lawrence and F.R.Leavis , whose loam-laden versions of country life did n't quite chime with mine . |
| 9 | no he went off quick , but I mean before you , while I was getting the money |
| 10 | While I was taking the dog out . |
| 11 | While I was investigating the toilet paper downstairs I missed their new single ‘ Goodbye ! ’ . |
| 12 | While I was visiting the area , one perched on a small hawthorn tree on the other side of the road and I got quite close to it . |
| 13 | No , it would n't have surprised me if he 'd been at his easel while I was painting the town red ! |
| 14 | While I was testing the Seayak on the west coast of Ireland I failed to pull it far enough up the beach on the night of a rising spring tide . |
| 15 | ‘ While I was checking the computer I came across a reference to the P-PRD . |
| 16 | He was lurkin' in a doorway while Ah was grabbin' the driver . ’ |
| 17 | During those five minutes , while she was reading the history of the poppadom from the back of a packet , a female voice said to her , in a strangled way , ‘ Mrs Bouverie ? ’ |
| 18 | Two men , aged 26 and 27 , contested the case but were found guilty of rape and aiding and abetting each other on the sex attacks on a 21-year-old French woman , who told how the two burst into her room at a friend 's flat while she was reading the Bible . |
| 19 | Ross said some hours later as he entered the apartment while she was giving the children their supper . |
| 20 | Later , while she was crossing the foyer of the hospital , she stopped to admire the colourful blooms on the flower stall just inside the door — carnations , pyrethrums , freesias and anemones . |
| 21 | No help at all , I should think — I once fell asleep while she was arguing the pros and cons of Henry versus Hank-from-Texas , and toppled onto the floor with a very loud crash which woke everyone up . |
| 22 | There was n't much he could do about Preston except shout abuse across the garden fence at his nan while she was putting the washing out , but he managed to persuade her it would be a mistake sending him to a Catholic school . |
| 23 | While she was making the coffee , boiling her kettle , he glanced across at her Herald Tribune . |
| 24 | PAUL MORLEY : unintelligible art-punk mastermind ( 8,000 words on The Members ! ) now presents TV programmes that are on the other side while you 're watching The Bill . |
| 25 | And the other thing erm which er er is good , supposing you 're watching er a programme and there 's a football match on and you 're interested in the , the football er but you do n't really want to keep , you know , switching to find out what the score is , er I 'm talking about teletext as opposed to a programme , you press the update and it w er and if something 's happened , you know , they 've changed and there 's been a score , it 'll come up er er while you 're watching the programme , er it 'll let you know that erm there 's been something happening . |
| 26 | ‘ You could look for them while you 're drinking the coffee . ’ |
| 27 | not while you 're taking the penicillin . |
| 28 | I mean it 's a bit like watching the television while you 're doing the ironing . |
| 29 | Well I think er several points should be ventilated and er I , I think the , while you 're doing the agenda this evening you could add something to each item in turn |
| 30 | enthusiastically communicate a vision to people ( vision is seeing the cathedral while you 're mixing the cement ) |