Example sentences of "while [noun prp] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ipswich knocked out Hightown last week in a tense but skilful game , while Chelmsford disposed of the mighty Slough after a penalty shoot-out at Chelmer Park . |
| 2 | John talked , quickly and urgently , while Patrick drove along the M4 , crossed the Chiswick and Hammersmith Flyovers and slowed down for the traffic in Cromwell Road . |
| 3 | Jonathan charts the painful break with union which it seems remains his first love — while Corrigan delves into the psychology of a man who temporarily split up with his wife , Karen , as a result of the grinding pressures of the modern game . |
| 4 | While Madeleine snored in the bottom bunk Léonie fought to keep awake , to know the exact moment when , in the very centre of the Channel , precisely equidistant from both shores , the walls of water and of words met , embraced wetly and closely , became each other , composed of each other 's sounds . |
| 5 | Within Outer London , the experience of Bromley and of Newham are almost mirror images : Bromley did relatively badly in the first and third periods and well in the second , while Newham gained in the first and third periods , but had the smallest increase in the second . |
| 6 | His mother was leafing through a huge pile of correspondence , the wire-framed spectacles perched on the end of her nose threatening to fall off at any moment , while Senga sat beneath the window , copying verses from an open Bible . |
| 7 | His younger brother Fitz , who had been running on the ground , now took over Kendo 's role and chased the monkeys further , while Kendo followed on the ground , along with Macho , Ulysse , Brutus and several females . |
| 8 | The dancers engage in playful sport , dressed in simple turtle-coloured costumes , while Wagoner stands at the back as some kind of pondering philosopher figure . |
| 9 | Rosie was lounging on the couch in an orange silk shirt-dress , drinking cola from a can while Francisco sorted through the stack of CD discs . |
| 10 | Relations with the Vatican had been broken off in 1861 but Pope John Paul II visited Mexico in 1990 [ see p. 37475 ] while Salinas went to the Vatican in July 1991 . |
| 11 | While Donna lay in the bathtub , inaccurately bawling the bits she could remember of My Fair Lady , Alex dialled Matthew 's number , only to find that he had switched on his answering machine . |
| 12 | Polland is now living in Spain and no longer involved in competitive golf while Brennan returned to the amateur ranks shortly after his success . |
| 13 | Zirnheld succeeded in placing bombs on a few trucks , while Jellicoe sat beside the road and saw nothing . |
| 14 | Charlotte sat feeding her baby while Enoch played on the hearthrug . |
| 15 | I ca n't drift off to dreamland on a shakedown settee while Eva paces round the flat , watching that Jamie does not slip into coma . |
| 16 | While CND concentrated on the aim of British nuclear disarmament , the American Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy — Sane for short — campaigned for general disarmament . |
| 17 | While Lucenzo looked through the displays on a gaily decked stall , Meredith gently extracted her father 's gold mask from the tissue in which he 'd carefully wrapped it . |
| 18 | The situation was almost the same at Exeter , but 48 per cent of the subsidy assessments were at £1 , mostly on wages , while in Coventry these were only a handful out of a total of some 700 taxpayers , meaning that almost half the population literally ‘ possessed absolutely nothing but the rags they stood up in , a few sticks and boards for ‘ furniture ’ , and the tools of their trade , if any' , Exeter clearly enjoyed full employment — as full , that is , as was attainable in the conditions of the time — while Coventry languished in the grip of severe unemployment , and indeed in the early 1520s was undergoing a series of acute economic crises . |
| 19 | While Pottz came to the mountain , Richie waited for the mountain to come to him . |
| 20 | While Coleridge waited for the sun to set behind Dowsborough and Higher Hare Knap , he wrote the first fluent draft of a poem reworked soon afterwards as ‘ This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison ’ . |
| 21 | Toby lounged more comfortably in his chair , while Jackson chafed at the lack of hard evidence . |
| 22 | Whitby were knocked out of the Yorkshire Shield 7–4 by the visitors to their heavy pitch , Wibsey ( Bradford ) , while Knaresborough plunged to the heaviest defeat in the club 's nine-year history when they went down 57–0 to the newly-formed Hull and ER club . |
| 23 | He stands back while Serafin comes into the centre of the room and slowly revolves on his heel . |
| 24 | Since delivery only required one of us , I 'd undertaken to go down to Fraxilly while Mala stayed with the ship . |
| 25 | Madeleine had on her spectacles and was reading the newspaper while Louis dozed on the sofa . |
| 26 | While Louis ducked into the saloon , Trent made his way forward . |
| 27 | Mick went into the post office while Paddy walked along the square to the hotel . |
| 28 | But while Yorkshire fail on the field there will always be discontent , and Boycott , after a period in which he appeared to have submerged himself in a media career , may head the opposition once more . |
| 29 | Eudoxus thus appears well-intentioned but naive , while Irenius emerges as the source of reason and experience . |
| 30 | Rima picked up the cassowary in his strong arms and clasped the hard thigh muscles with both hands while Joseph sawed through the creepers . |