Example sentences of "while [pos pn] [noun sg] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mother threw insults and then the crockery , while my father ignored the insults , caught the crockery , and produced endless cups of tea when they eventually decided to make up . |
| 2 | The girls all became Ladies , Charles , then aged eleven , was made a Viscount while their father became the 8th Earl and inherited Althorp . |
| 3 | And while they played in the barn and while their mother sang the girl found something behind the haystack . |
| 4 | While her boss took the unsuspecting Carolyn out to lunch , workers hoisted her H-reg Volkswagen Polo 20ft into the air with a borrowed crane and parked it neatly on the roof . |
| 5 | This year 's PFAS Child of Valour award went to Wendy Windsmoor , aged nine , who stood for no less that 17 minutes , reserving a vacant meter spot in Oxford while her father negotiated the one-way system . |
| 6 | When they heard the car they went carefully downstairs , and her mother settled her in while her father held the door and Alan put her bag in the boot . |
| 7 | Jules continued to chatter while her mind digested the fact that she was holding Lucenzo 's handkerchief — yet the initials on it were LC . |
| 8 | She read and read and read while her aunt mended the socks of her husband and brothers or sewed innumerable buttons on their shirts . |
| 9 | Melanie wrestled with self-pity and memory as she sat in the kitchen with her book while her aunt sewed the last seams of the Greek tunic . |
| 10 | Dorothy Marshall describes a case in the eighteenth century which resulted in a servant being hanged : she held a candle while her lover slit the butler 's throat . |
| 11 | When the children were young " big sister " was delegated to get the smaller ones ready for bed while her mother shared the leadership of the evening services.Joyce told the children fairy stories or Bible stories and they sang Army songs and choruses . |
| 12 | Miguel was saying ‘ Yes ’ and ‘ I see ’ while his caller did the talking . |
| 13 | In the fourteenth century , for instance , Arnaud de Cervole was in and out of royal employment and was actually appointed royal chamberlain in 1363 , while his son had the duke of Burgundy as his godfather . |
| 14 | I had hoped he and I might snuggle in the back of the car while his mate did the driving . |