Example sentences of "[art] while " in BNC.

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1 I see how I 've been losing : all the while
2 At the siege of Belle-Isle I was there all the while ; All the while , all the while , At the siege of Belle-Isle Until last month these lines were only a nursery-rhyme to me , accompanied in my memory by a crude illustration of a tower by the sea and square-rigged warship balancing on humped waves .
3 At the siege of Belle-Isle I was there all the while ; All the while , all the while , At the siege of Belle-Isle Until last month these lines were only a nursery-rhyme to me , accompanied in my memory by a crude illustration of a tower by the sea and square-rigged warship balancing on humped waves .
4 At the siege of Belle-Isle I was there all the while ; All the while , all the while , At the siege of Belle-Isle Until last month these lines were only a nursery-rhyme to me , accompanied in my memory by a crude illustration of a tower by the sea and square-rigged warship balancing on humped waves .
5 They are also rigorously colour-coded , so that when the Wife ( Helen Mirren ) walks into the lavatory from the dining-room , the camera keeping pace with her all the while , she is miraculously redressed in identical tacky Jean-Paul Gaultier clobber , but now in white and not red .
6 He grabbed me by the throat and began throttling me , all the while demanding her address .
7 All the while , Julian Bailey had been maintaining a strong , gritty pursuit with the Nissan , and he was only 7secs behind Baldi 's second-placed Mercedes when he made his fuel stop early on lap 31 .
8 The designer of all this magnificence , one Daniel Robertson , was crippled by gout , and directed operations from a wheelbarrow , toping the while from a flagon of sack .
9 We lined up , dispatching practice balls into the shimmering blue yonder with ill-disguised pride and waited for the Master to work his way along , one of us on video duty all the while .
10 Through the summer there were less serious , though very unpleasant , incidents — and all the while , despite Mr K 's frequent requests to Hounslow Borough Council , no one came to remove the racist graffiti .
11 Next the designer moves on to the exceptions , such as a and s , all the while bearing in mind the axis he established with the first letter he designed .
12 If we are referring to a mass of matter we can say that it is the same so long as it consists of the same particles , whereas if we are referring to a living body this need not be so : ‘ a colt grown up to a horse , sometimes fat , sometimes lean , is all the while the same horse : though … there may be a manifest change of the parts . ’
13 As Mark began to reply , she said the first name with him , nodding her head the while .
14 He agreed with it all , of course , to ingratiate himself , looking deep into her large , green eyes all the while .
15 The meadow began to mushroom with tents and huts and the street theatre erupted into an explosion of living history , the performers flinging themselves to the ground and then leaping into the air as and when the idea occurred and making funny faces all the while .
16 Trouble is , all the while he 's aiming to reap the monetary rewards American society generates for a film such as Hardware .
17 But then again , maybe Jos had been nearby all the while ?
18 I walked slowly back up the shabby road to this now miserable room , thinking all the while of what I ought to do or what I could do if I was ever going to outmanoeuvre these cunning poisoners .
19 Exultation comes and goes , but here again for the while I suppose it has returned to me in preparation for that step back into the radiant arc of omnipotence which is only given on this earth to the narrator in or of a novel .
20 He always stands strategically in corners at parties or similar wasteful gatherings of the wasted , his glass tilted in his hand , his broad back against the wall , talking all the while in those low , resonant yet rather monotonous tones which everyone listens to with a sniggery sort of attention .
21 Iranians had more respect for people with graying locks ; North , already tipped off by Ghorbanifar , had put more white in his ; so Hakim and Nir went back to the shop and had Nir 's hair sprayed , Hakim all the while keeping his identity firmly under his wig .
22 Young Pamela used to have to don a tutu and dance until she dropped , hot angry tears rolling down her cheeks the while .
23 At 35 mph , he travelled down the highway , all the while swaying from side to side on the iron turret , cheeks puffed out , face frozen with concentration as he played his unheard tune , his notes smothered by the thrashing of the tank tracks .
24 And I shall write my songs and carry them in a pack and I shall recite them to the people , and sing them too , and I shall tell stories , and the little children shall gather around me , the while himself is in the temple . ’
25 He ran a glass under the kitchen tap , then returned to the living room and , looking at himself in the full-length mirror all the while , stood there naked , shaking violently as if with cold , and poured himself and drank three glasses of water without stopping .
26 She was fifteen , lithe , conscious of her own body and beautiful in her art , and all the while as the spectators ' enthusiasm grew her father watched her , drinking Jerez , nodding his head and smiling .
27 ‘ Do we need some help with our washing ? ’ , all the while desperately trying not to look at the forbidden sight of father naked in the bath .
28 . ’ All the while I 'm thinking , ‘ Please do n't come to me ! ’
29 The thin little cat , her repast spread on a newspaper in the corner , dug her sharp white teeth into the cod 's head , closing her eyes in bliss the while .
30 ‘ Set-tea — toasted-tea-cake — jam-or-honey — choice-of-cake-to-follow — two-and-nine , ’ gabbled the girl , admiring her engagement ring the while .
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