Example sentences of "[adv] while i [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ken said , ‘ I had to put it down while I put the amp into the van . |
| 2 | they had no vision of a classless society , erm , personally while I 've no desire to see uniformity , I see no earthly reason why some people because they have a lower income should be compelled to live in inferior and perhaps crowded conditions , whereas the man with five or six or seven times their income can choose a larger house in a much more delightful district and I think it is things like that that make the difference between what I as a young socialist agitator was advocating and what we find today . |
| 3 | I was between jobs , and I actually had enough to tide me over while I had a sabbatical . |
| 4 | ‘ Not while I have a breath in my body you wo n't . |
| 5 | ‘ Silly or not , I 'd bugger off while I had the chance , ’ she said and glanced over her shoulder . |
| 6 | He straightened up , then bowed slightly , ‘ I apologise for barging in and finding you gloriously undressed on my bed , and for ordering you out while I took a shower . |
| 7 | ‘ Some people think I am crazy but I thought I had better do it now while I have the chance . ’ |
| 8 | Having to say ‘ hold on while I find a pen ’ to a caller always makes an organisation appear to be inefficient . |
| 9 | Now wait here while I make a couple of calls . ’ |
| 10 | Now just watch it with those fish please while I get a cloth . |
| 11 | ‘ Stay there while I bring the bathroom scales , ’ ordered Belinda . |
| 12 | Both for not being prepared , not giving the opening of this course the importance that it did deserve , and obviously for the embarrassment that er you must have felt having to sit there while I made a total fool of myself . |
| 13 | You wait there while I open the hatch . ’ |
| 14 | I 've told you that , I mean today she was asking , she , she was standing there while I loaded the dishwasher she says I 've got to learn how to do it have n't I ? |
| 15 | He runs the match beneath while I hold the tube in my mouth , in the light of the desert green neon , with Billie Holiday oozing from the stereo . |
| 16 | Why do n't you take that wet anorak off and get the fire going again while I make the drinks ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Look , George , why do n't you walk the boy on ahead while I have a private word with his mother ? ’ |