Example sentences of "[verb] while on [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This does n't mean that you should take time off work ; quite the opposite , as it is preferable that you remain occupied while on the diet .
2 Fred Robertson 's record was outstanding ; he had taken part in 189 interception sorties , and been credited with ten confirmed , three probables and seven damaged while on the island ; his assessment as a fighter pilot endorsed in his logbook by Sqn.Ldr .
3 Lewis was retaliating at the sight of captain Leighton Duley being head-butted and then kicked while on the ground .
4 On Aug. 30 six journalists ( including Diana Turbay Quintero , daughter of former President Julio César Turbay Ayala , and a West German , Hero Buss ) had disappeared while on an assignment to interview Manuel Pérez , the commander of the left-wing National Liberation Army ( ELN ) .
5 It is only valid if it is pressed while on a field which is used by the LIFESPAN cache facility ( see below ) .
6 The camera uncovered marks I had failed to see while on the ground .
7 Simon Dunne , Claire Langley and Rachel Walker , all 16 , and Dean Sayer , 17 , died while on a course at the St Albans Centre in Lyme Regis , Dorset , in March .
8 THREE hundred Liverpool football fans are expected to gather to pay tribute to supporter Dennis Corbett , who died while on a trip to watch his team play in Moscow .
9 When my sons went to the village school there was respect and they knew that they could not ‘ nannick ’ about in school , even if they did while on the way there .
10 Another bowls award went to Joan Temple , a member of the Taverham Medau class in Norfolk — she won the ladies prize while on a dancing holiday at a holiday camp .
11 This was not always successful because of the autonomy neighbourhood police have while on the beat , and he told us , with some regret , that as a final resort he was instructed by the sergeant not to take his book of fixed-penalty tickets with him when he was accompanied by the field-worker .
12 Frank , 73 , served with the Royal Marines and was severely burned while on the HMS Suffolk .
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