Example sentences of "[noun] while [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then ordered a car to call for him the next morning for a similar occasion and was felled by a stroke while waiting for the lift . |
| 2 | HIGHLY-publicised incidents of patients who die on trolleys in accident and emergency units while waiting for a hospital bed are the rare consequences of the extreme pressure under which most units work . |
| 3 | I am continually reappraising in my own mind their strengths while looking for their weaknesses ( although there are depressingly few of these visible ) . |
| 4 | However , facing into the wind while waiting for a launch , a tyre on the wing-tip is just a convenient way of preventing the wing from lifting off the ground . |
| 5 | Andrew Saxton and his colleague Andrew Davies faced a life ban after being found to have taken Clenbuterol while training for the games . |
| 6 | They range from the UK equivalent of plea bargaining to the curiosity that while Boesky , a confessed criminal , can arrange special deals with the prosecution , those charged with lesser offences have to spend three years keeping lawyers in clover while waiting for their turn at justice . |
| 7 | It appears that he had a recurring dream in which he was told , " Socrates , be an artist " , a command which he ignored at first , supposing that nothing could be a higher " art " than his own philosophizing , but eventually complied with by writing some poetry while waiting for death in prison . |
| 8 | Many women are unable to qualify for a full pension because of periods spent out of the labour force or in part-time work while caring for children or disabled relatives . |
| 9 | The fishermen and their children have a habit of holding fish between their teeth to prevent their escape while searching for another . |
| 10 | Volunteers in the sitting service have helped families lead relatively normal lives while caring for their loved one at home . |
| 11 | Indeed , it is said that he composed one aria while waiting for the rice to cook . |
| 12 | Paul Prescott had to learn more than a thousand lines while studying for five A levels . |
| 13 | Although he now had the potential earning power of any major movie star , he nevertheless remained on unemployment benefit while waiting for his agent to find the right new vehicle for him . |
| 14 | Her misery was made far worse two weeks later , when her motor-racing fiance , Peter Revson , 34 , was killed in a crash while practising for the South African Grand Prix . |
| 15 | Pennett owes his chance at Trent Bridge to Notts batsman Paul Johnson , who was impressed by his bowling in the Headingley nets while preparing for last winter 's England ‘ A ’ tour . |
| 16 | I encountered an old lady of a more awkward sort while canvassing for the Tory candidate in Crosby — a by-election subsequently won for the SDP by Shirley Williams . |
| 17 | Make yourself open to chance — often you will find things by accident while looking for something else , or when just browsing aimlessly . |
| 18 | But he believes that if Mike Teague can make an England comeback while playing for Second Division Moseley , why should n't he ? |
| 19 | However , most of the literature does not satisfactorily account for the simultaneous determination of wages and membership while allowing for the interaction between the free rider problem and workers ' tastes . |
| 20 | So I sat down on a chair that stood by the counter and looked around the shop while waiting for Mary to emerge from behind the colourful painted screen where she was trying things on . |
| 21 | Mr Lavelle , 25 , of Edgware , north-west London , collapsed and stopped breathing after an altercation with an opponent while playing for Hendon against Centaur , from West Drayton , west London , police said . |
| 22 | According to Le Monde of Nov. 22 the number of asylum seekers ( who came especially from eastern Europe ) had risen to 1,700 per month , and a new law to speed the processing of asylum applications stipulated that these should be processed within two months , after which an applicant recognized as a refugee could take up provisional residence while waiting for a definitive decision . |
| 23 | Tony Long , who sat on a government working party discussing the directive in the mid-1980s while working for the Council for the Protection of Rural England , now runs WWF 's Brussels office . |
| 24 | At the present pace of progress in Brussels , similar changes throughout the EC may not come in for a dozen years or more , and British farmers fear that they will lose business while waiting for European competitors to catch up . |
| 25 | She had met the deceased while looking for accommodation . |
| 26 | We studied 500 women aged 20 to 42 years presenting for artificial insemination to determine effects of body fat distribution while controlling for weight and other variables on the chance of conception . |
| 27 | Yet , over the space of two days while waiting for Ryder to appear , guitarist Mark Day shows me his holiday snaps of Barbados , drummer Gaz Whelan is more preoccupied with the hassles of having a broken foot , while PD and Paul Ryder do n't so much brag as baulk at the very mention of drugs , seeming far more at home with talk of ‘ middle-eights ’ , ‘ mixing desks ’ and ‘ jamming grooves ’ . |
| 28 | But even if this were possible a substantial number of lone parents ( about 300,000 on current figures ) would continue to be reliant on the state for at least some period while caring for their children . |
| 29 | Following this ritual , she was separated from Annabel while waiting for it to be decided which class she would attend first . |
| 30 | For a few weeks , he drove a taxi while searching for a permanent appointment . |