Example sentences of "while [v-ing] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Louis , a sportsman and only child , was struck while jogging at the edge of the road . |
| 2 | Louis , an all-round sportsman and only child , was struck while jogging at the edge of the road on 13 July . |
| 3 | The bar-room whose porch I was leaning on , while gazing at the street , was surrounded by cameras , lighting and film crew . |
| 4 | He had a successful operation in December but suffered problems with his shoulder socket while training at the start of last month . |
| 5 | As well as being appropriately dressed you should also be aware that you may have been noted even while looking at the agency 's window display . |
| 6 | For a moment , the Doctor toyed lightly with the simularity crystal he had found while looking at the blood on the floor . |
| 7 | She recalled how she had steadied the block with one hand while pulling at the handle with the other , and how smoothly the blade had slid from its slot . |
| 8 | WHILE staying at the hotel — there is easy access from junctions 16 and 18 on the M6 and Crewe railway station is nearby — you will have the opportunity to visit the exotic Stapeley Water Gardens , Bridgemere Garden World or the Cheshire candle workshops . |
| 9 | Children are assessed while staying at the Institute for up to four weeks ( this may be extended in some cases ) . |
| 10 | The other poem which Coleridge wrote during his retreat , and the circumstances of its composition , have entered the mythology of English literary history : while staying at the Culbone farmhouse he took three grains of opium to relieve what he variously described as ‘ a dysentery ’ or ‘ a slight indisposition ’ , and in the deep reverie which followed composed two or three hundred lines of poetry ‘ without any sensation of consciousness of effort ’ . |
| 11 | Why are you concerning yourself about these matters ? she queried mentally while staring at the typewriter . |
| 12 | Like most true Cornishmen , the Arundells were staunchly Royalist during the troubles , and the sixth Sir John was killed at Plymouth while charging at the head of his troop in 1643 . |
| 13 | Earlier , five unarmed demonstrators were reportedly shot dead in late April in Manfalut , south-west of Cairo in the Fayourn region , reportedly while protesting at the banning of a traditional Moslem festival . |
| 14 | Seven years after the Americans bombed Libya , a veteran peace campaigner has been arrested while protesting at the airbase used for the raid . |
| 15 | While standing at the corner with some of the boys , a tall , well-built , red-haired man approached them , and said : |
| 16 | Later , while sitting at the kitchen table making a special list of people to help with Easter flowers , and a subsidiary list of those who might be approached to donate Easter lilies , Anna and her conscience had a little tussle . |
| 17 | Then he said something in a very low voice , while gesturing at the bruiser with the wallet . |
| 18 | While working at the cinema , for instance , he tried to repair a cistern and ended up flooding the place . |
| 19 | David Greetham , 28 , of Wales Street , Aberdeen , is accused of embezzling £5,135.08 while working at the Dalmahoy Hotel , Golf and Country Club at Kirknewton , near Edinburgh , between 1 February and 8 November , 1991 . |
| 20 | Lawrie , 34 , of Broughton Road , Edinburgh , admitted stealing the cash while working at the Thistle Foundation 's offices in Niddrie Mains Road between June and November 1991 . |
| 21 | Mr Litherland , Labour MP for Manchester Central , said he had drawn attention to the security flaw after a building worker told him of his concern while working at the court building . |
| 22 | Some of the more important include George Blake , who worked for MI6 ( see Chapter 2 ) ; John Cairncross , who betrayed Ultra secrets from the Government Code & Cipher School ( GCCS ) at Bletchley Park during the war to the Russians ; John Vassall , a sad homosexual who gave away naval secrets while working at the Admiralty ; Frank Bossard , who gave the Russians details of British and American guided weapons systems ( which must have amused them greatly as the Russians were far ahead of the West at the time ) ; and William Marshall , who had worked as a cipher clerk at the British Embassy in Moscow . |
| 23 | An important step in establishing this was taken by Einstein in 1905 ( that amazing year in which , while working at the patent office in Berne , he also invented special relativity and explained Brownian motion ) . |
| 24 | Peter Jones , 44 , from Childwall , Liverpool , was struck by the disease of the nervous system last Christmas while working at the North-East Nissan car plant . |
| 25 | While practising at the Chancery bar , he kept up an interest in Liverpool through Dr James Currie [ q.v. ] , whose circle included many local liberals like William Roscoe [ q.v. ] , as well as rising Whig politicians such as ( Sir ) Samuel Romilly [ q.v. ] and James Scarlett ( later first Baron Abinger , q.v . ) . |