Example sentences of "while [pers pn] [verb] she [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 he took her to pieces |
| 5 | Helen watched Culley 's face while he told her about Josh Reid and the child . |
| 6 | And she would have to leave whatever she was doing to sit in with him while he briefed her on what he intended to do , and why . |
| 7 | He had picked her up half-conscious , and while he carried her to the hospital she had clung to him with a pitiful force . |
| 8 | Perhaps it just grew and matured until it took in all their emotions , but his hands began to smooth her back and shoulders , until in the end his fingers were threaded through her hair and his big , warm hands were holding her steady while he kissed her with mesmerising thoroughness . |
| 9 | She called him Fred while he addressed her as Gladys — names which they picked from the Spike Milligan radio shows . |
| 10 | He had been so gentle , controlling his own need while he readied her with exquisite subtlety and patience . |
| 11 | While he regarded her with evident interest , she searched her mind . |