Example sentences of "while [pron] [vb past] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | While she stared at the floor Rosen continued , ‘ I do hope we have time to talk alone before you go . ’ |
| 5 | The relief was great , and she sat massaging her toes for a minute while she looked at the collection of dirty underwear strewn over her genuine-colonial bedroom , and shuddered . |
| 6 | Mrs Files let her shoulders answer while she stacked at the sideboard . |
| 7 | Afraid that at any moment someone would shout ‘ Grab her ! ’ and drag her off to some unspecified yet ineluctable torment , she forced herself at least to look calm while she sat at the console on the dais . |
| 8 | It was after eight-thirty and in a few minutes the family would sit down to eat while she stood at the end of the table , still working . |
| 9 | Knowing she had to support herself , they paid her while she trained at the Manchester school . |
| 10 | Then they were whisked off to the museum , while we stayed at the hotel waiting for news of our flight to Nanking . |
| 11 | Belkhuban 's father died while they waited at the border to get here … her brother 's been left behind … she has nothing , but she shared bread and tea with us . |
| 12 | I stood beside him while he cursed at the keys and thumped the side window . |
| 13 | When Michele had retrieved the crutch from the back seat Luce followed him into the bare concrete building and waited while he knocked at the door of one of the ground-floor flats . |
| 14 | And suddenly I caught sight of this … prat sailing down the Cam back towards Cambridge in a punt , with a girl doing all the work , while he reclined at the exact angle , trying to play a chord and strum a tune … |
| 15 | Finally they found a canvas and Modi seated Indenbaum at one end of the long narrow studio while he sat at the other . |