Example sentences of "while [v-ing] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They 've never done me any harm and I have seven bairns , ’ she said while eating a bag of chips in the sun . |
| 2 | Despite the collapse of communism , the concomitant crisis in left-wing ideas and the unravelling of the Eighties consumerist fantasy , they still maintain , as they have for years , that socialism is an evil malaise , while professing a support for Conservatism , as unblinking as that of a home counties Tory loyalist . |
| 3 | While producing a series of vocal recitals at CBC I had the pleasure of working with Mrs John Christie ( Audrey Mildmay ) , who was on a visit to Vancouver , and who had a remarkably fine singing voice . |
| 4 | While pursuing a complaint through the grievance procedure is sometimes worthwhile , you do not forfeit your right to claim constructive dismissal if you have been treated so badly that you decide that raising the matter through the company 's internal procedures will not help you to achieve a fair deal . |
| 5 | Recalling Tory election campaign claims that the Opposition would raise taxes while they would not , he said : ‘ The Conservatives have debased politics by seeking election on a platform of low taxes while pursuing a policy of high taxes . ’ |
| 6 | She was keeping her voice low , much as one might while singing a lullaby to the one wakeful soul in a house full of sleeping children . |
| 7 | Shaking the water from her matted hair and sodden white lab coat while drawing a series of relieved gulps of air , the woman looked up at the Marines with a weak smile . |
| 8 | As far as anybody knew , he 'd mangled himself while helping a friend with some car repairs . |
| 9 | 1.4 The case for change was therefore irrefutable leaving only the problem of how best to effect the changes while maintaining a balance between modules for personal development and the more insistent vocational claims . |
| 10 | His death , while preaching a crusade in 1253 , robbed the diocese of its best-loved leader , a welcome change from some of his more avaricious fellows on the bench , and gave it its greatest religious and , ultimately , financial asset . |
| 11 | This is the story of Flt Sgt R H Middleton , RAAF , who was posthumously awarded the VC following a raid on Turin while captaining a Stirling of No 149 Squadron . |
| 12 | In Mandalay , Kington drove round with an Australian who took a detached interest while overtaking a pair of cyclists in line abreast , pedalling hand-in-hand all over the road . |
| 13 | Only this August , an Arab extremist thought to be a member of Hizbollah died in a London hotel while strapping a bomb to his body . |
| 14 | This can happen while driving a car over a familiar route , and it can happen while reading predictable passages of text . |
| 15 | There was the famous occasion when he picked at a wall behind a bus stop while waiting for a bus and found a rare specimen fossil ; and the occasion when he cut his leg while climbing a rockface at Craigleith Quarry and failed to notice it until his Wellington boot was full of blood , whereupon he drove to the nearest hospital for stitches and a transfusion . |
| 16 | Antiques expert Guy Schwinge spotted it while valuing a house at Dorchester , Dorset . |
| 17 | While translating a treatise by the Scottish physician Dr William Cullen on the use of cinchona or Peruvian bark in the treatment of intermittent fever ( malaria ) , he was struck by Cullen 's assertion that the therapeutic effects of cinchona were due to its tonic , bitter and astringent qualities . |
| 18 | erm And he describes them in these terms because of course this is how he sees them from different angles while rounding a series of bends on the road , so that in fact he describes the movement which his senses perceive , not the solid immobility to which his intellect testifies . |
| 19 | Voting in the elections started in mid-May but was postponed after the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi by Tamil separatists while addressing a rally in Tamil Nadu [ see p. 38175 ] . |
| 20 | The most dramatic example of this came on June 13 when , while addressing a meeting of members of the Rev. Jesse Jackson 's " Rainbow Coalition " , he defied the parameters of what was considered to be " politically correct " by criticizing all forms of racial hatred , including such expressions by blacks against whites . |
| 21 | A TOP British pilot has died of altitude sickness in the Himalayas while leading a probe into an air crash . |
| 22 | Both were said to be ‘ very happy ’ while pondering a name for the 7lb 3oz boy born on Friday night in the Wellington hospital , north-west London . |
| 23 | The full drama of the place is best sampled while sipping a cocktail on the top floor of a gleaming international hotel , with the ever-changing panorama of the deep-water harbour bustling with container ships , passenger liners and junks far below . |
| 24 | At Wagamama it 's a bowl of noodles , perhaps with slices of chicken , seasonal greens , bamboo shoots and spring onions , maybe with a side order of gyoza dumplings , while sipping a bottle of crisp and dry Sapporo Draft . |
| 25 | While researching a book on the history of Arabia he was struck by the lack of early material , and while searching for place names of non-Arabic origin in a gazetteer recently produced in Riyadh , he found that nearly all the Biblical place names from the patriarchal period were concentrated in a small area of the Red Sea north of Yemen and far south of the traditional sites in Palestine . |
| 26 | The idea of marking the site of Liddell 's grave at Weifang in China , and establishing the Foundation came to him while researching a book on Liddell . |
| 27 | Kellock , part of the Bank of Scotland group , will provide a guarantee to the bank to persuade it to keep open a loan facility while adding a layer of factoring finance on top . |
| 28 | This would leave the bassist free to add little chordal colourings on the G and D. You could also use them for striking solo intro riffs , something they excel at , while adding a touch of stereo chorus provides an even sweeter sound . |
| 29 | While permitting a degree of creativity , the doctrine of precedent , even in the House of Lords , operates to limit the changes in the law which the judges are willing to make . |
| 30 | Where else therefore could a small scholarship be more usefully bestowed than in a manner which would , as Kinnoull indicated , ‘ much oblige Lady Findlater , & many other friends ’ , while conferring a favour upon a grateful man ? |