Example sentences of "while [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , most of the literature does not satisfactorily account for the simultaneous determination of wages and membership while allowing for the interaction between the free rider problem and workers ' tastes . |
| 2 | Gregory sees her as the prime mover in this , while allowing for the importance of divine intervention in Clovis 's victory against the Alamans . |
| 3 | Louis , a sportsman and only child , was struck while jogging at the edge of the road . |
| 4 | Louis , an all-round sportsman and only child , was struck while jogging at the edge of the road on 13 July . |
| 5 | Peter was one of three Palace players to have won 14 full International caps while registered with the club , and Palace fans will always wish him well in his career for both club and country . |
| 6 | But this poses a dilemma for the vigneron because the vine , once pruned , is at its most vulnerable to frost , while to wait for the danger of frost to subside would be to waste the vine 's limited and precious energy : the decision of when to prune can prove an expensive one . |
| 7 | However , I found that my arm rested quite comfortably along the 44mm-thick body , allowing relaxed fingerstyle playing while resting on the neck-side of the pickup . |
| 8 | Note that in practice Silver and Knitmaster chunky and double knit machines should NOT be set to tuck while knitting with the ribber . |
| 9 | Rediscovering and making heroes of overlooked Old Mistresses does n't challenge the exclusivity of art history , the way it masquerades as a specialism — so it talks only about form and sources , influences and patrons — while collaborating with the class of owners and dealers in art as rich people 's commodities because it never talks about social conditions of race , class , gender or sexuality . |
| 10 | The bar-room whose porch I was leaning on , while gazing at the street , was surrounded by cameras , lighting and film crew . |
| 11 | The citizens were literally waiting to seize the disembarking troops and bear them off to their homes for lavish entertainment , while singing on the quayside was the ample figure of Perla Siedle Gibson , ‘ The Lady in White ’ . |
| 12 | Where courses are offered at only one teaching centre , it would be possible to make significant progress by initially devolving responsibility for assessment only to the college , while maintaining for the time being central control of the course content . |
| 13 | Specific offline requests from LIFESPAN users are included while checking for the limit having been reached . ) |
| 14 | She could eat her words , while denying with the maximum of emphasis that she was ever ‘ for turning ’ . |
| 15 | Levine , an investment banker at a prestigious Wall Street firm , was alleged to have been involved in insider trading over a period of six years , during which time he made huge profits while trading on the basis of material nonpublic information in the securities of companies . |
| 16 | ‘ The police think she was killed by a stranger while walking through the harbour , and dumped in the water . |
| 17 | And then they wonder why they get beaten up while walking down the street at one in the morning . |
| 18 | A CONFUSED old man died while walking along the centre-line of a main road on a foggy December night , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 19 | A MOTHER-of-four was crushed to death by a boulder while walking on the holiday isle of Crete , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 20 | WHILE WALKING on the pavement last month , I received injuries which disabled me for for one week caused by a mountain bike . |
| 21 | These allow headphone listening while walking around the room . |
| 22 | How do you turn a clapped-out Lada into a Mercedes while driving down the motorway ? |
| 23 | Ben has been in the home since the beginning of the year when , while appearing as the Sheriff of Nottingham in a panto in Whitchurch , he was taken ill in his digs . |
| 24 | Mohammed Said was arrested by the army on July 7 while announcing to the press that in Madani 's absence he would be provisional leader of the FIS . |
| 25 | Ates suggests that Molla Yegan thus met Molla Gurani not in Egypt but perhaps in Aleppo while returning from the pilgrimage and that the story about their meeting in Cairo was concocted in order to make Molla Yegan 's more desirable . |
| 26 | She Caught The Katy meanders along while Messin' With The Kid and Texas Flood are too bluesy and should have been left off the tape . |
| 27 | while perched on the lip of a light-aircraft ; |
| 28 | In this , they have important strengths , and they can teach students skills which courses concentrating on formal features of language often omit : how to greet people , or how to maintain polite contact while listening on the telephone . |
| 29 | He ate a dish of cornflakes while wandering around the kitchen and then went out to look at the Triumph , still parked in front of the house . |
| 30 | That evening while wandering round the bazaar I was suddenly greeted with great friendliness by the erstwhile sufferer , who announced that he was now all right and was going back to his village next morning . |