Example sentences of "while [verb] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lukas Safarimoja stumbled on a strange cassava plant while hunting in the bush 36 years ago . |
| 2 | The possession of a car enables them to maintain social contacts with their friends elsewhere , and if necessary , to make use of urban amenities while living in the countryside . |
| 3 | Roddick experienced her first taste of trading as a child while serving in the family café in Littlehampton in Sussex , which is now the centre of her worldwide retailing empire . |
| 4 | He was taken to Homerton Hospital for treatment but while waiting in the casualty department he heard a news flash about his escape and fled . |
| 5 | If you do suspect that your dog does bark excessively in certain situations , while waiting in the car for example , it may be worthwhile speaking with your vet . |
| 6 | She knows the woman who cleans for the Sheldrake practice , and the other day , while waiting in the bus shelter , they got talking about Dawn and Robert . |
| 7 | By fighting by-elections , it was argued , while remaining in the Government , Labour could demonstrate the public demand for more radical measures and increase its muscle at the Cabinet table . |
| 8 | Some gay men are out to their colleagues , especially perhaps to heterosexual women , while remaining in the closet with the young people with whom they work . |
| 9 | According to Captain Trentham 's report , he was picked up with a single bullet wound in his right hand while lying in the mud only a few yards in front of his own trench . |
| 10 | If Bourke recorded some of these conversations with Blake in October he would have had to take a battery-operated audio recorder with him across the common , as well as the two-way radio , and link the two together while lying in the grass talking to Blake . |
| 11 | The next morning , an early start , window shopping in the streets of Paris and half of an hour with our heads buried in the Michelin and Gault Millau guides while taking in the air and the haute couture from the vantage point of our pavement cafe . |
| 12 | Tea and eatables brought in a big Orkney basket to the harvesters and eaten while seated in the lea of the stokes was a special treat . |
| 13 | Sylvia was able to take from the cupboard only those items she could reach while standing in the hall itself . |
| 14 | As herons fish while standing in the pool , it is a simple matter to deter them . |
| 15 | Stewart had filled in the V62 form while standing in the queue moments before staging the hold-up , the jury heard . |
| 16 | Cameron and Parkes ( 1983 ) cite , by way of example , the death of a woman who had spent her last weekend at home with her husband discussing plans for the future while sitting in the sun to regain her strength . |
| 17 | Many had had a ‘ good war ’ , and one cure for contempt was to discover , while sitting in the Library during all night sittings , a slim volume such as How I Rowed Across The North Sea Singlehanded , by Sir Hugh Munro Lucas-Tooth . |
| 18 | PIPPA Steffell , aged one , who got her foot caught in the gap of a Sainsbury trolley while sitting in the seat . |
| 19 | He 's fighting for fitness after fracturing his kneecap while playing in the winter tests against New Zealand … so how is Syd … when 's he coming back to bowl … here 's a special report from Nick Clark |
| 20 | In Plymouth , Ricky Maule , six , underwent plastic surgery after he was attacked by an unknown dog while playing in the street . |
| 21 | While lost in the fog she heard talking and realised that a barge had dragged anchor and was coming down river with the tide . |
| 22 | PI KI SKAB WE The parasite that afflicts man and Tig Gag in its various larval stages and , while burrowing in the brain of the Tig Gag , causes it to speak like a man |
| 23 | So you could claim the cost of repair if you chopped one while digging in the garden . |
| 24 | Josef Mengele died of a heart attack aged 68 while bathing in the sea off Bertioga , south of Sao Paolo , Brazil , on Feb 7 , 1979 . |
| 25 | Most sailing courses can provide buoyancy aids and waterproof clothing , while a pair of trainers and shorts will get you by with a borrowed lifejacket while crewing in the summer . |
| 26 | The lizards seem to use their fringes to absorb heat while basking in the sun . |
| 27 | All in a year he won European indoor gold in Madrid , the Commonwealth silver in Edinburgh and the European outdoor gold over 100 metres in Stuttgart where officials ticked him off for collecting his medal while draped in the Union Jack . |
| 28 | It was revealed earlier that Dr Yarab Almahawi , 33 , who was born in Saudi Arabia , was first identified as HIV positive while working in the casualty department of a Northern Ireland hospital . |
| 29 | One autumn day , while working in the library , I found a book which described weeping rituals in ancient Canaan . |
| 30 | Lord Wilberforce , while agreeing in the result , said that the test was whether the act done , pursuant to the general intention , was reasonably capable of achieving its objective . |