Example sentences of "while wait [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this poses a dilemma for the vigneron because the vine , once pruned , is at its most vulnerable to frost , while to wait for the danger of frost to subside would be to waste the vine 's limited and precious energy : the decision of when to prune can prove an expensive one . |
| 2 | Having lost one job he was interviewed at the Feltham Ordnance Factory , but was rejected as useless , ‘ having fallen asleep while waiting to be given instructions ’ . |
| 3 | Would patients who recover from their ailments while waiting to be seen by the doctor please vacate your seat for those less fortunate — there are still plenty of us left . |
| 4 | Two of her brothers were killed in World War I and the third died in the influenza epidemic while waiting to be demobilized . |
| 5 | Yet how could one possibly become acquainted with his wife , Marie , a woman who had been on the stage and who , it was known , had lived with him in adultery while waiting to be divorced ! |
| 6 | The girl noticed Wightman while waiting with her boyfriend for the last train . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Workers could not clear the tunnels of smoke while waiting for the rescue teams to arrive . |
| 11 | Another bomb fell and he was back in the gutter beside Peregrine , convinced that anything was preferable to being killed while waiting for an improbable train . |
| 12 | He could n't afford another scandal while waiting for trial . |
| 13 | While waiting for the bath to fill , she reflected on a fragmentary dream which , thanks to Dmitri , had surfaced in her memory . |
| 14 | While waiting for Surkov to arrive , Sergei spoke of the need to move the story on realistically and swiftly . |
| 15 | Up to the age of 39 he was one of that sad , nervous and obscure clan of people who scraped a living as a barrister while waiting for a distant relative to die and leave him an independent income . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Problems have arisen at King 's College Hospital , London , where large numbers of patients have had to wait on trolleys for up to 30 hours in the accident and emergency unit while waiting for a bed . |
| 18 | The young composer practises his scales while waiting for a big break . |
| 19 | There was an inquiry about this in 1867 , when Richard Colwell was said to have left wheat at the mill for three weeks , while waiting for enough water to work the mill . |
| 20 | While waiting for Mr Knightley to arrive , the rest of us were invited to tour the grounds , and so it was that I and about ten others led off to the banks of the River Avon by a ruthlessly hearty philanthropist extraordinaire , Lady Patricia Rutherford . |
| 21 | In between minor television roles , in series like ‘ Divorce Court ’ , Jack took to practising script writing for a time , while waiting for work . |
| 22 | While waiting for a flight she was asked to do some translating at one of the jungle lodges . |
| 23 | It was while waiting for a train on Uxbridge Station that the sight of a poster for the Tower Furnishing Company inspired W. S. Gilbert to write The Yeomen of the Guard . |
| 24 | Some travel companies have business centres at major airports where scurrying executives can make use of work stations , business machines , meeting-rooms and secretarial services , while waiting for flights . |
| 25 | While waiting for this money to come through , he asked the owners if they would allow him to order goods for the coming summer season . |
| 26 | The only thing I could step up while waiting for that next visit to the X-ray department was my visualization . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The reading undertaken while under stress — while waiting for the dentist , for example , or while sitting in a plane during turbulence , or when fatigued at the end of the day — is usually of this order . |
| 29 | But I have also come to realise that standing as still as you must while waiting for your chance to come on a frosty day is not exactly the height of pleasure . |
| 30 | 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 . |