Example sentences of "while [pers pn] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'll have to wait while I get one from the back store , ’ he said . |
| 2 | There was about her something inhuman , and while I saw her as fey rather than remote , I was aware of my own inhumanity : something in me which was arid and incapable of desire . |
| 3 | She gave me sandwiches and coffee while I told her of Mrs Zamzam 's flight from the village in 1948 . |
| 4 | I read of her collecting ivy with her children for Christmas decorations ( she rightly hated holly ) , while I told her of walks by the Nile with Sappho , my pretty mongrel bitch , watching the beautiful boats with big-bellied sails bringing cattle-fodder from Upper Egypt . |
| 5 | I would marry a beautiful and capable woman like my mother who would look after my house and my children while I busied myself with more important matters in the wider world . |
| 6 | ‘ While I show him round the shop ’ |
| 7 | I do not relish the thought of leaving her here with him while I drive you for many miles and wait for you to linger by shop windows . ’ |
| 8 | While I acclimatised myself to the changes over forty years , I went into my own world , back even further than that first hospital . |
| 9 | ‘ Knowledge , ’ he insisted lightly , ‘ I have to confess that I still find you an unusual and delightful companion — an astonishingly beautiful young woman ; and while I watched you in Wexford market I felt — drawn . |
| 10 | Well , you can fetch my partner and I a stoop of liquor , angel-face , while I warn him about you . |
| 11 | ‘ He had to pick an England team from what was left after the week-end games a fortnight ago , while I found myself with just two players at Highbury for almost the entire week . |
| 12 | ‘ Now stay where you are , boy , while I test you on your spelling to see if you 've learnt anything at all this past week . |
| 13 | While I have him by the lapels I head-butt him across the face , to give him something else to think about . |
| 14 | ‘ You know as well as I that both Benedict and Araminta have every moral right to enjoy whatever she had , while I have none at all . ’ |
| 15 | For while I have it in my power , I must put an end to Frankenstein 's monster . |
| 16 | ‘ I suggest we sit down while I explain them to you briefly . ’ |
| 17 | The next four paragraphs are important in the committee 's scheme of things and I must ask your Lordships ' indulgence while I quote them in full : |
| 18 | ‘ Oh , aye ; we go into a cubicle and Frank goes in the bowl while I do it into the cistern . ’ |
| 19 | She looked slyly at my master , just like Queen Margaret had , though she greeted us civilly enough , ordering servants to take our guide and the baggage off to the guest house while she entertained us with cups of wine , fresh-baked bread and huge bowls of hot spicy broth . |
| 20 | They had stayed talking very late last night , and he knew a lot more about her than she had ever expected to tell anyone , while she knew something about him . |
| 21 | Irena took an unofficial day off work and we wandered through the damp streets while she told me about being a student at Palacky University in 1968 ( and what happened afterwards : ‘ It is strange how the history books of a country can change , is n't it ? ’ ) . |
| 22 | Without taking hold of me , she forced me to stand in one spot of my own will , while she whipped me on all sides . |
| 23 | He bent his head and his hot mouth closed hungrily over her breast while she offered it to him with one hand , her head thrown back , eyes closed , surrendering to the hot , dark feel of his mouth sucking at her nipple . |
| 24 | When he was imprisoned in 1768 for sexual sadism he managed to secure an early release by the devious means of getting his wife pregnant while she visited him in jail . |
| 25 | I was fascinated by her story and waited impatiently while she refreshed herself with tea before continuing . |
| 26 | I 'm aching to run , but make myself sit for a second while she watches me through the black circles . |
| 27 | While she presented herself as a target , the second galley had rowed against the wind north . |
| 28 | I picked up Eddie just as it started to rain again , and we chatted all the way back to Simon 's office while she dressed herself in street clothes from a Sainsbury 's shopping-bag . |
| 29 | With a resounding yell , dummy to your right with your hands while you launch yourself at your target — the man on your far left . |
| 30 | The second type is the block-end which has removable lids , one of which you take off while you fill it with live feed such as maggots . |