Example sentences of "while [pers pn] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was about her something inhuman , and while I saw her as fey rather than remote , I was aware of my own inhumanity : something in me which was arid and incapable of desire . |
| 2 | She gave me sandwiches and coffee while I told her of Mrs Zamzam 's flight from the village in 1948 . |
| 3 | I read of her collecting ivy with her children for Christmas decorations ( she rightly hated holly ) , while I told her of walks by the Nile with Sappho , my pretty mongrel bitch , watching the beautiful boats with big-bellied sails bringing cattle-fodder from Upper Egypt . |
| 4 | ‘ While I show him round the shop ’ |
| 5 | I do not relish the thought of leaving her here with him while I drive you for many miles and wait for you to linger by shop windows . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Knowledge , ’ he insisted lightly , ‘ I have to confess that I still find you an unusual and delightful companion — an astonishingly beautiful young woman ; and while I watched you in Wexford market I felt — drawn . |
| 7 | Well , you can fetch my partner and I a stoop of liquor , angel-face , while I warn him about you . |
| 8 | ‘ Now stay where you are , boy , while I test you on your spelling to see if you 've learnt anything at all this past week . |
| 9 | While I have him by the lapels I head-butt him across the face , to give him something else to think about . |
| 10 | For while I have it in my power , I must put an end to Frankenstein 's monster . |
| 11 | ‘ I suggest we sit down while I explain them to you briefly . ’ |
| 12 | The next four paragraphs are important in the committee 's scheme of things and I must ask your Lordships ' indulgence while I quote them in full : |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , aye ; we go into a cubicle and Frank goes in the bowl while I do it into the cistern . ’ |
| 14 | She looked slyly at my master , just like Queen Margaret had , though she greeted us civilly enough , ordering servants to take our guide and the baggage off to the guest house while she entertained us with cups of wine , fresh-baked bread and huge bowls of hot spicy broth . |
| 15 | Irena took an unofficial day off work and we wandered through the damp streets while she told me about being a student at Palacky University in 1968 ( and what happened afterwards : ‘ It is strange how the history books of a country can change , is n't it ? ’ ) . |
| 16 | Without taking hold of me , she forced me to stand in one spot of my own will , while she whipped me on all sides . |
| 17 | He bent his head and his hot mouth closed hungrily over her breast while she offered it to him with one hand , her head thrown back , eyes closed , surrendering to the hot , dark feel of his mouth sucking at her nipple . |
| 18 | When he was imprisoned in 1768 for sexual sadism he managed to secure an early release by the devious means of getting his wife pregnant while she visited him in jail . |
| 19 | I 'm aching to run , but make myself sit for a second while she watches me through the black circles . |
| 20 | The second type is the block-end which has removable lids , one of which you take off while you fill it with live feed such as maggots . |
| 21 | I 'm bitterly sorry I behaved so stupidly towards you , but — I can promise I 'll never marry another man while you want me to be your wife , but — ’ |
| 22 | Did you imagine I 'd stand passively by while you used me for bayonet practice ? ’ |
| 23 | The fact that bats construct their internal model with the aid of echoes , while we construct ours with the aid of light , is irrelevant . |
| 24 | He had an infection of the muscle and would have to stay in hospital for at least three weeks , maybe a month , while they treated him with penicillin injections . |
| 25 | It was n't his case and they were n't suspects , and they must have known that he was no cheerful extrovert , flattered to be the centre of attraction while they bombarded him with questions about Chief Inspector Rickards 's likely methods , the chance of catching the Whistler , his theories about psychopathic killers , his own experience of serial murder . |
| 26 | A. Yes , in assembly while they say it in English I do the other one . |
| 27 | And while they force you to be what you do not want to be , they are also teaching you how to be parents . |
| 28 | And then we had to wait while they poured them in the moulds , but if the moulds failed , and they were rather big , they was full of air-holes and they used to turn it all into a fine just l l pebbles of molten metal , straight back up at you , and you could n't move cos if you moved your crane then somebody would have been killed with out the ladles . |
| 29 | While he took her to pieces |
| 30 | We walked solemnly around Gloucester in and out of the Cathedral precincts while he told me about his childhood . |