Example sentences of "while [pers pn] [verb] he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ While I show him round the shop ’ |
| 2 | Well , you can fetch my partner and I a stoop of liquor , angel-face , while I warn him about you . |
| 3 | While I have him by the lapels I head-butt him across the face , to give him something else to think about . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | While it freed him from a form of dependency — his succession to the LDP leadership had been achieved with the faction 's support — it also meant that the future of his premiership would depend on the skill with which he was able to balance the party 's competing factions — including his own — all of which were of roughly equal strength . |