Example sentences of "while [noun pl] [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taxis waited in a long queue to ferry them away , while others struggled up the stairs with cases or bags , determined to make their way by other means . |
| 2 | On the following Monday some of them pursued him to a review that was taking place on Wimbledon Common , while others went to the City , occupied the Royal Exchange and picketed the coffee houses , carrying placards reading More Wages . |
| 3 | According to the Centre for Pontian Studies in Athens 350,000 Pontians were massacred in 1916-23 ; around 1,000,000 Pontians fled to Greece while others escaped to the Caucasus , only to be exiled to central Asia and Siberia under Stalin . |
| 4 | Some couples were moving away while others waited for the band to strike up again . |
| 5 | She came to It via an employment agency , and , while others slept on the floor , worked , argued , or posed , she would work through the clerical , jobs , type , organize . |
| 6 | Some of the gang members got into the car while others sat on the vehicle 's bonnet . |
| 7 | Servants hurried in and out of kitchens with pitchers of water while others sat in the shade whiling their time away with dice and other games of hazard . |
| 8 | She did not know how to assert herself here ; she felt out of her depth , floating in the warm limbo of the pool while swifts swooped at the water . |