Example sentences of "while [noun prp] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Soraya wandered apparently penniless around the shops the Shah gave innumerable Americans informal press conferences in which he repeated the message the Americans had suggested . |
| 2 | While Buckmaster sat impatiently in the rear and drummed his fingers on his knee , Morgan put on an expensive black overcoat , the collar trimmed with astrakhan , buttoned it up , got back behind the wheel and resumed driving . |
| 3 | Shearer is in to stay , but while Taylor deliberates just who should be his partner up front Campbell plans to gate crash the party . |
| 4 | Ratsiraka 's support was strongest in the town of Toamasina while Zafy took more than 60 per cent of the votes in both Antananarivo , the capital , and Antsiranana . |
| 5 | JEWKES react to this interruption while PAMELA comes downstage and addresses the audience . ] |
| 6 | I was surprised , therefore , to hear Donald Dewar , MP , on Good Morning Scotland today , extolling the interventionist approach of the Belgian and Dutch governments over attempts to save DAF jobs in their countries , while Whitehall stands idly by . |
| 7 | There was a polite shunting of chairs to make space for an extra one , and Eliot managed a few pleasantries while Shildon looked thoroughly annoyed by the intrusion and Harbury could not contain his delight . |
| 8 | Like its predecessor , Fonthill Abbey is said to have been a symmetrical building in Gothic disguise , while Vathek provides even less domestic detail than Otranto — the adjective , indeed , scarcely applies . |
| 9 | Richard leaned against the wall while Murray lumbered past to the lavatory . |
| 10 | Ezooli and Eve were more interested in the cafés , while Elice planned tragically which drugs she planned to get hold of . |
| 11 | He came out of the library when he saw it was me , shook my hand and said ‘ Terrible thing , terrible thing ’ a few times , while Beethoven sounded loudly from the opened library door and his wife tutted and tried to smooth his errant hair . |
| 12 | There was a pause while Woolley kicked monotonously against a filing cabinet . |
| 13 | As Edward looked around he saw everything determinedly perpetuating itself — buds forming , leaves unfurling , seeds setting , the whole place off again on the same mindless uncaring cycle , while Edward stood there in the midst of it , quite alone . |
| 14 | Balaam can do nothing but pronounce God 's own words of blessing upon them , while Balak grows ever more frustrated and angry . |
| 15 | However Tolkien disobligingly remarked that he had n't read Ariosto and would n't have liked him if he had ( Biography , p. 218 ) , while Spenser exemplified much that he hated ( see pp. 42–3 above ) . |
| 16 | It is striking that while Leapor writes amusingly , sometimes angrily , of intellectual constraints , she rarely complains of the physical rigours of domestic service . |
| 17 | While Moses looks forward to the ‘ good ’ to come , their minds are fixed on the ‘ evil ’ of the present . |
| 18 | One thousand and ninety five days of a stinking bucket in the corner while Pete looked forward to dinner . |
| 19 | Streep grabs the opportunity to mock such concerns with undisguised relish , providing one of the best comic performances of her career , while Hawn seems curiously ill at ease and takes great care to show us she remains in superb bodily nick . |
| 20 | So , while England fall well short of support from six countries , India , Pakistan and Sri Lanka have two ready-made allies and need just one more . |
| 21 | The parallel , however , was more apparent than real : Becket , after all , had exchanged the office of chancellor for that of archbishop , while Stratford combined both on several occasions . |
| 22 | For two nights Alison had stayed in the house , couching upstairs with Jack , while Franca slept downstairs in her boudoir . |
| 23 | Madame sat down in Ellie 's father 's chair , by the unlit fire , and took out a cigarette from her purse , while Ellie stood uncertainly by . |
| 24 | The South of England are in second place with 14 per cent , while Scotland lags well behind with only 9 per cent . |
| 25 | ‘ They are protecting their miserable skins while Ireland falls further into my grasp . ’ |
| 26 | While Elisabeth concentrated unswervingly on chewing , regretting the absence of a serrated steak-knife , which would have made the cutting of the meat into very small slices so much easier , Mitzi was intent upon communication . |
| 27 | The Habsburgs had been stung by the loss of Silesia into a series of far-reaching administrative reforms , while Russia had once more displayed her military strength and had consolidated her dominant position in Poland . |
| 28 | Overwhelmed by the devastating revelation , she sank to the floor , crying jerkily while Lucenzo watched imperviously , not moving a single muscle . |
| 29 | As a test of his strength Utnapishtim challenged him to stay awake for six days and seven nights — " But while Gilgamesh sat there resting on his haunches , a mist of sleep like soft wool teased from the fleece drifted over him , and Utnapishtim said to his wife , " Look at him now , the strong man who would have everlasting life , even now the mists of sleep are drifting over him . " " |
| 30 | Before a concert in Manchester on the ‘ Bizarro ’ tour , Gedge was holding court with about six fanzine editors while Solowka sat just outside the circle , counting out huge wads of money from a leather briefcase . |