Example sentences of "while [pers pn] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'll have to wait while I get one from the back store , ’ he said . |
| 2 | ‘ While I show him round the shop ’ |
| 3 | While I acclimatised myself to the changes over forty years , I went into my own world , back even further than that first hospital . |
| 4 | While I have him by the lapels I head-butt him across the face , to give him something else to think about . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , aye ; we go into a cubicle and Frank goes in the bowl while I do it into the cistern . ’ |
| 6 | I 'm aching to run , but make myself sit for a second while she watches me through the black circles . |
| 7 | While she presented herself as a target , the second galley had rowed against the wind north . |
| 8 | You mean you 're leaving me here with that man while you enjoy yourself on the ski-slopes ? |
| 9 | The fact that bats construct their internal model with the aid of echoes , while we construct ours with the aid of light , is irrelevant . |
| 10 | I have a fancy to show myself as far as Newport and Cardiff , while they lose themselves in the mountains of Maelienydd and Brecon . ’ |
| 11 | During field-work there was only one incident related to sexual abuse , and this was dealt with by policemen , and while they showed something of a blasé attitude towards it in feeling that the victim was ‘ hardly touched ’ and the offender ‘ did n't do anything anyway ’ ( FN 2/11/87 , pp. 5–6 ) , they pursued the case thoroughly . |
| 12 | And then we had to wait while they poured them in the moulds , but if the moulds failed , and they were rather big , they was full of air-holes and they used to turn it all into a fine just l l pebbles of molten metal , straight back up at you , and you could n't move cos if you moved your crane then somebody would have been killed with out the ladles . |
| 13 | Then he was reaching for his own glass and inviting her to sit in one of the wicker armchairs overlooking the bay while he seated himself in the chair beside her . |
| 14 | He 'll want things to go on just as before , while he helps himself to a share of the takings . |
| 15 | He had picked her up half-conscious , and while he carried her to the hospital she had clung to him with a pitiful force . |
| 16 | But when the dentist had announced that it was urgently necessary to extract two teeth Mills had got up and walked away , glad that he had n't taken off his coat and so would not have to enter into any further discussion while he recovered it from the waiting-room . |
| 17 | She had worked for Pringle 's for years , and Vic was heavily dependent on her know-how while he eased himself into the job . |
| 18 | With the first Dalek one , for example , I let Richard Martin , again a new Director , do a few episodes but under the wings of Christopher who set up the serial and so , kind of , held his hand while he eased himself into the role of Director , which was good experience for him . |
| 19 | She had gone out to the Windmill for ale while he contented himself in the kitchen . |
| 20 | Burun was sitting on a chest which had been used to carry the food , and his second wife , Kiku , whom men called the Regal Lily , was standing behind him dressing his hair while he admired himself in a hand-held mirror . |
| 21 | While it freed him from a form of dependency — his succession to the LDP leadership had been achieved with the faction 's support — it also meant that the future of his premiership would depend on the skill with which he was able to balance the party 's competing factions — including his own — all of which were of roughly equal strength . |