Example sentences of "while [prep] other time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some stories tell of botos coming up underneath canoes and taking off with the paddles , leaving a lone canoeist adrift on the river , while at other times the dolphin is said to have saved the lives of people from a capsized boat . |
| 2 | Sometimes this is done quite deliberately — he refuses to think about the event at all — while at other times it is his subconscious mind which ensures that he is no longer troubled by it . |
| 3 | Women sometimes are virtuous , while at other times they only appear so in order to lure men to destruction . |
| 4 | A decisive victory in a battle brought patriotic celebration , while at other times when things were going less well the failure to seek a peace could swing sentiment the other way . |
| 5 | By allowing unmediated access to a character 's mind the narrator constructs a close bond between reader and character based upon shared information and perspective , while at other times witholding the reader from that mind so that narrator and reader stand together in a position of judgemental distance . |
| 6 | An additional factor is that in speaking English we vary in how rhythmically we speak : sometimes we speak very rhythmically ( this is typical of some styles of public speaking ) while at other times we speak arhythmically ( that is , without rhythm ) — for example , when we are hesitant or nervous . |