Example sentences of "while [pron] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I followed Jack 's Mercedes a short way along the side roads and he then headed due south while I shot down the motorway towards home . |
| 2 | A botanist spent 10 minutes trying to identify it for me , while I fretted between the reception desk and the child . |
| 3 | When six chimed on the clock above the door , I reluctantly asked him to push the blind back in , and to lock up while I checked over the day 's takings . |
| 4 | The sting proved a lightning cure for his hangover , for he stood rubbing his arse while I rushed to the farmacia for a remedy . |
| 5 | He unselfishly stayed on the crag while I struggled with The Fang in wintry dusk and rain . |
| 6 | She sat like that for what seemed like ages while I tramped round the room , nervous and on edge and blabbering with the excitement . |
| 7 | I affected to become social with the others but out of the corner of my mind — while I played for the others the part of a poor miner 's son who was puzzled , but delighted by the attention these lovely people paid to him — I had her under close observation … |
| 8 | A very cold lump formed at the back of my spine while I waited for the rest of it . |
| 9 | Hour after hour the legions marched past , walking as much over each others ' bodies as over the ground , while I waited for the queen . |
| 10 | ‘ While I waited for the doctor , worried stiff , a girl arrived , advanced in labour . |
| 11 | While I came to the Arctic when I realized that climbing , my first love , was losing its appeal , Tony was born to the area , loving it , one might believe , even before he saw his first photograph of it . |
| 12 | Nathan had watched while I went under the rock , had been surprised when I vigorously stood up and had stood transfixed as I gently pitched forwards off the rock . |
| 13 | Mala agreed with a surprisingly little hesitation to stay behind and protect the ship , while I went into the spaceport city . |
| 14 | — I remember , & never shall forget , my father 's face as he looked upon me while I lay in the servant 's arms — so calm , and the tears stealing down his face : for I was the child of his old age . |
| 15 | I was beginning to feel sleepy , and very cold ; the temperature seemed to have gone down , and I was shivering even while I sweated from the furnace-like emanations of the curry . |
| 16 | I noted last week , while I hung like the average orang-outang from a strap in a train on the London underground , gazing about at travellers ' knitteds , that many of them had cuffs rolled up . |
| 17 | It took a conscious effort to resist the urge to close my eyes , while I signalled to the traffic behind and made an emergency stop . |
| 18 | While I sulked in the tent , nursing my wounds and recovering from the thorough sandbagging , Mick was hatching a plan . |
| 19 | In the evening , after a snack rather than a meal , I went up to the loft and used the telescope to take a distant look at the island , making sure that nothing had happened to it while I rested inside the house . |
| 20 | At dinner the two cholerics carried on a huddled conversation while I sat at the end of the row feeling the cutlery might melt in my hands . |
| 21 | She tidied the room a little , attended to her hair , while I sat in the basket chair watching her . |
| 22 | In view of our darkened ship I told No.1 to slow down and take any avoiding action while I remained at the radar , not wishing to lose our target . |
| 23 | He was a most able officer , and I was able to hand over this part of the work to him with confidence , while I concentrated on the current activities of the department . |
| 24 | On the other hand I felt I could scarcely ask you to wait while I dealt with the strawboard — you were by this time I think just on the verge of a few conventional politenesses about my work , an awkward stage in conversations of this sort which is difficult to endure gracefully but which is even more difficult to interrupt . |
| 25 | Happiness , I knew , was not something she thought much of as an end : it was as if she had said , I 'm glad you do n't mind being poor , and , although when I replied to her , it was only to tell her about the baby , Thomas , and how he had put on five pounds and had cut his first tooth , I brooded over what I might have said while I stood at the sink or pushed the pram , making great , windy speeches in my mind , venting on my absent aunt the curious , unreasonable anger that seemed to rise up before me like a dark pit , bottomless and frightening . |
| 26 | While I reacted to the general violence and inhumanity of the assault , they were thinking : it could have been me . |
| 27 | My chest ached with a child 's fear while I cringed in the deeply recessed doorway of North Three . |
| 28 | The people of Tiree were very kind , and I had to take tea with a family who had good English , and invited me to come right away and remain their guest while I stayed on the island . |
| 29 | He listened , quiet and attentive , while she conned over the breeding of the yearlings , answering his questions with knowledge and certainty . |
| 30 | While she stared at the floor Rosen continued , ‘ I do hope we have time to talk alone before you go . ’ |