Example sentences of "while [pers pn] be [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 61 | ‘ Came here once , ’ commented Lord Beddington morosely , looking round while they were waiting for cabs to return . |
| 62 | Their daughter , Shelagh , has moved to Belfast where she has a job in an office but her younger brother , Sean helps here and there on the farm while he is looking for some other work , sadly without too much hope , since there is already much unemployment in the towns . |
| 63 | So while he 's looking for you somebody could run out and kick the tin , there you go and fetch him , and if he 'd caught anybody and when you kicked that tin the other , well you could all go and hide . |
| 64 | It 's gone dark while he 's waiting for us outside . |
| 65 | The most interesting binocular object is M15 , a globular cluster not far below naked-eye visibility ; it was discovered by Maraldi in 1746 , while he was looking for a comet . |
| 66 | Look at Carlos Lopes — I would n't compare myself with Lopes , but the fact is that he ran his fastest 10K while he was training for a marathon [ Lopes ran the then second fastest ever 10,000m , with 17:17.48 in July 1984 , just one month before winning the Olympic marathon in a record 2:09.21 ] . |
| 67 | On his Saturday evening visit , while he was canvassing for Communion , I had to tell him that I was n't confirmed . |
| 68 | While he was working for insurance brokers Alexander Howden ( running its 350-strong management services company , which is responsible for everything from staff canteen to computers and the chairman 's Rolls-Royce ) he decided he ‘ wanted to run a company from A-Z . |
| 69 | While he was working for the K.K.K. , he sent the pips to frighten those three men . |