Example sentences of "while [noun] [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The locational or spatial aspects of geographical problems are handled by a spatial database management system while queries relating to the attribute data generally use a relational database management system . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As I noted above , mortgage affordability is likely to fall to a 20-year low this year and while entry costs into the housing market have risen since the boom , they remain low in historical terms . |
| 8 | While Donna lay in the bathtub , inaccurately bawling the bits she could remember of My Fair Lady , Alex dialled Matthew 's number , only to find that he had switched on his answering machine . |
| 9 | Zirnheld succeeded in placing bombs on a few trucks , while Jellicoe sat beside the road and saw nothing . |
| 10 | Charlotte sat feeding her baby while Enoch played on the hearthrug . |
| 11 | I ca n't drift off to dreamland on a shakedown settee while Eva paces round the flat , watching that Jamie does not slip into coma . |
| 12 | While CND concentrated on the aim of British nuclear disarmament , the American Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy — Sane for short — campaigned for general disarmament . |
| 13 | The situation was almost the same at Exeter , but 48 per cent of the subsidy assessments were at £1 , mostly on wages , while in Coventry these were only a handful out of a total of some 700 taxpayers , meaning that almost half the population literally ‘ possessed absolutely nothing but the rags they stood up in , a few sticks and boards for ‘ furniture ’ , and the tools of their trade , if any' , Exeter clearly enjoyed full employment — as full , that is , as was attainable in the conditions of the time — while Coventry languished in the grip of severe unemployment , and indeed in the early 1520s was undergoing a series of acute economic crises . |
| 14 | While Pottz came to the mountain , Richie waited for the mountain to come to him . |
| 15 | While Coleridge waited for the sun to set behind Dowsborough and Higher Hare Knap , he wrote the first fluent draft of a poem reworked soon afterwards as ‘ This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison ’ . |
| 16 | Toby lounged more comfortably in his chair , while Jackson chafed at the lack of hard evidence . |
| 17 | However , while shoplifting occurred in the past , the extent of the crime has grown massively in recent years . |
| 18 | He stands back while Serafin comes into the centre of the room and slowly revolves on his heel . |
| 19 | Since delivery only required one of us , I 'd undertaken to go down to Fraxilly while Mala stayed with the ship . |
| 20 | Madeleine had on her spectacles and was reading the newspaper while Louis dozed on the sofa . |
| 21 | While Louis ducked into the saloon , Trent made his way forward . |
| 22 | The early British sites were neglected as relics of unimagined savagery while attention focused on the scramble for antiquities in the Near East and the securing of the best prizes , like the Rosetta Stone , for the British Museum . |
| 23 | Mick went into the post office while Paddy walked along the square to the hotel . |
| 24 | But while Yorkshire fail on the field there will always be discontent , and Boycott , after a period in which he appeared to have submerged himself in a media career , may head the opposition once more . |
| 25 | Gay stayed with her , while Breeze ran into the inn and , with lively recollections of her last visit , asked rather nervously to see the proprietor . |
| 26 | Eudoxus thus appears well-intentioned but naive , while Irenius emerges as the source of reason and experience . |
| 27 | They could spend their honeymoon staying in the old farmhouse which had once belonged to the d'Urbervilles , while Angel studied at the mill nearby . |
| 28 | Interestingly , while Lee rebelled against the notion of female inferiority , both she and Elderton were convinced of the importance of women 's role as wives and mothers . |
| 29 | Morrissey writes flamboyantly while Gedge converses with the listener in a questioning , deadpan tone . |
| 30 | But , while inflation slowed from the summer of 1974 , prices as a whole continued to rise at an annual rate of 10 per cent during the depths of the slump . |