Example sentences of "[pron] while [v-ing] for " in BNC.

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1 It 's hard to enjoy himself while fearing for their lives .
2 It 's hard to enjoy himself while fearing for their lives .
3 Left staring at him while waiting for her full wits to return , Leith did not know for the moment what on earth was going on .
4 Nina had her hand in the other girl 's handbag , and was begging her for money in exactly the same terms she had used on him while begging for heroin .
5 However , they will have to satisfy unemployment benefit officers that part-time work is not their usual pattern , and they are just doing it while looking for full-time employment .
6 However , they will have to satisfy unemployment benefit officers that part-time work is not their usual pattern , and they are just doing it while looking for full-time employment .
7 However , they will have to satisfy unemployment benefit officers that part-time work is not their usual pattern , and they are just doing it while looking for full-time employment .
8 Next in importance would come the discovery in 1964 of the cosmic background itself , by two scientists from the US Bell Labs , Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson , who stumbled on it while looking for ways of eliminating noise in radio receivers .
9 Chant 's body was discovered the following day by 93-year-old Albert Burke , who found it while looking for his errant mongrel , Kipper .
10 She studied it while waiting for someone to appear and serve her .
11 Perth Sheriff Court was told that yesterday when David Herschell , 48 , of Ancaster Lane , Comrie , admitted committing breaches of the peace on a number of occasions by inducing a total of 13 kilted boys aged between five and 16 to expose themselves while posing for his camera .
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