Example sentences of "[verb] while [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Specific offline requests from LIFESPAN users are included while checking for the limit having been reached . ) |
| 2 | Anthony Waugh sawed his way through his neighbour 's stair bannister in Londonderry Road , Stockton , to release Sarah Walters , three , who had got herself trapped while playing on the steps . |
| 3 | Only four of the 77 passengers were slightly injured while escaping from the emergency exits but the aircraft was badly damaged . |
| 4 | He does not want his team disrupted and is even more concerned that one might be injured while playing for the county . |
| 5 | Kington 's river trip was eight days on a slow boat in the company of U Thien San , who guided the writer on matters like whether it is customary to talk while eating with the Burmese , and whether the monk sharing their cabin was really a spy . |
| 6 | and one which , as he has noticed while walking through the great houses of the world , ‘ has given many an anonymous carver a little power over the grave . ’ |
| 7 | He died last week when his parachute failed to open while filming for the BBC series 999 near Alnwick , Northumberland . |
| 8 | The first real scare came while flying over the Mediterranean . |
| 9 | If we daydream while going through the motions of reading we can still recognise words , and perhaps even convince ourselves that we are reading . |
| 10 | The disadvantage , of not gaining any practical experience of the knowledge you acquire while working through the course , can be overcome . |
| 11 | Bees learn colour only in the final three seconds as they land : the colour visible to the bee before the landing sequence , the colours it sees while standing on the flower to feed and while circling the blossom before flying off , simply never register . |
| 12 | The succession to the Empire was soon re-established in the Habsburg line and the link with Hungary came again after the battle of Mohács in 1526 , when Ferdinand I of Austria succeeded the last Jagellonian King of Hungary and Bohemia , Ludovic , who was drowned while fleeing from the battlefield . |
| 13 | Children are assessed while staying at the Institute for up to four weeks ( this may be extended in some cases ) . |
| 14 | ‘ They have a lovely day for it , ’ Lucy remarked while staring through the kitchen window . |
| 15 | For a moment , the Doctor toyed lightly with the simularity crystal he had found while looking at the blood on the floor . |
| 16 | Seven years after the Americans bombed Libya , a veteran peace campaigner has been arrested while protesting at the airbase used for the raid . |
| 17 | Paul Warhurst , Sheffield Wednesday 's make-shift striker , was rushed to hospital with a serious head injury sustained while scoring in the 8-1 win over Spora . |
| 18 | Having eaten two packets of bacon-flavoured potato crisps , he had purchased another tube of Rowntree 's Fruit Gums , which he was now enjoying while waiting for the lights to dim . |
| 19 | C There will be certain knowledge and skills that you will need to acquire while working in the surgical ward . |
| 20 | Former taxi driver Paul Burrows , of Chandos Street , Darlington , discovered his talent for singing while convalescing from the life saving surgery last April . |
| 21 | Such a scene can still be witnessed while standing on the quaint little hump-backed bridge opposite the mill . |
| 22 | Benjamin B'Hahn — whose father , Abel pioneered underwater births — fell while playing on the river bank two months ago . |
| 23 | Sylvia was able to take from the cupboard only those items she could reach while standing in the hall itself . |
| 24 | My knowledge of chyluria progressed while working for the senior physician of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases . |
| 25 | Lance Corporal Wayne Edwards , 26 , of Cefn Mawr , Wrexham , died while serving with the Cheshire Regiment on January 13 . |
| 26 | Henry Oakeley , who had succeeded his brother as squire of Lydham and moved to ‘ Oakeley Manor ’ ( now Lydham Manor ) , actually died while enquiring about the Railway , on 12th March 1877 , the year in which the Bailiffs Incident occurred . |
| 27 | A CONFUSED old man died while walking along the centre-line of a main road on a foggy December night , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 28 | Louis , a sportsman and only child , was struck while jogging at the edge of the road . |
| 29 | Louis , an all-round sportsman and only child , was struck while jogging at the edge of the road on 13 July . |
| 30 | The young measure just under one foot in length at birth , they are more aggressive than their parents and can rear up , spread the hood and strike while emerging from the egg if aroused or annoyed . |