Example sentences of "while [v-ing] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But while jogging home from a disco last year he 'd got involved in a augument with twenty year old Darren Kelly . |
| 2 | Steve Thomas was attacked while walking home from a night club , but can remember little else of the incident . |
| 3 | In 1987 Mr Keyse was disabled in a road accident while returning home from a day 's work at Llanfair Caereinion station . |
| 4 | If a speaker tries to talk while riding fast on a horse , the speaker 's pitch will make a lot of sudden rises and falls as a result of the irregular movement ; this is something which is outside the speaker 's control and therefore can not be linguistically significant . |
| 5 | Also , a young Norwegian secret agent named Bernhard Bergersen had while travelling past in a train on the opposite side of the fjord , risked his life by taking a photograph of the Tirpitz as she lay at anchor . |
| 6 | However it does seem that mental models can be developed in the abstract without the need to resort to action , in other words it is possible to learn while sitting passively in a class-room . |
| 7 | Outside agriculture the number of self-employed actually grew by 1 million , while falling substantially as a proportion of total employment . |
| 8 | Elsewhere in this issue , Isabel Wolff reports on the inspiring life of Rigoberta Menchu , a indefatigable defender of human rights of indigenous people in Central America ; Ian Williams describes his experience in Somalia while working there as a nurse during the worst of the 1992 famine ; and we publish an extract from The Princess , an anonymous account of the treatment of women in Saudi Arabia . |