Example sentences of "[noun sg] while " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police and officials cordoned off corridors leading to the courtroom while the girl made a three-minute appearance . |
| 2 | Police and officials cordoned off corridors leading to the courtroom while she made a three-minute appearance . |
| 3 | A team of four assassins , made up from the now disbanded Security Police , have vowed to kill Mobuto while he 's here in America . |
| 4 | Perhaps he popped out for a quick sandwich while Nigel read ? |
| 5 | ‘ And I have no appetite , no appetite at all , ’ shrieked Teresa Darrell at Dr Neil , and consuming her fourth sandwich while she spoke . |
| 6 | ‘ Eat your sandwich while you 've got ten seconds . |
| 7 | He then ordered a car to call for him the next morning for a similar occasion and was felled by a stroke while waiting for the lift . |
| 8 | Stanley , an American writer resident in Britain for over twelve years , had a sudden stroke while out eating dinner with friends . |
| 9 | Marshall 's own father had a stroke while making the movie and the character Paula , who comes to visit her similarly stricken father , has obvious biographical resonance . |
| 10 | In essence , the obsessive Clare Leash had taken it upon herself to make a full account of the volumes in the Society 's possession , and had suffered a stroke while doing so . |
| 11 | Until that date Louis was to retain the Norman Vexin while Margaret was to be kept in Henry 's custody . |
| 12 | One apparent reason for the delay was the Bush adminstration 's fear that to conclude a free-trade pact in mid-1992 as originally envisaged would be an electoral liability in the US presidential contest , opening Bush to attacks from protectionists that he was encouraging US companies to relocate to Mexico in search of cheap labour while unemployment continued to rise at home . |
| 13 | As for the certificate system whereby a parish acknowledged its responsibility to relieve holders who became chargeable while working in other parishes , that may well have helped industrial employers for they received the labour while the risk of having to relieve in cases of unemployment or sickness was underwritten by the parish of settlement . |
| 14 | Will you wait in the ante-room while the governors discuss your case . ‘ |
| 15 | There were stories that the Shah had kept Giscard waiting in an ante-room while he finished a game of cards with his cronies , but Zahedi said later , " The Shah was always too polite to do that . " |
| 16 | Run out of ammo while on the ground and you 'll have to resort to flying kicks . |
| 17 | It floats above us , gleaming in the darkness as if supported on a cloud of talk and booze while the people below swarm and chat and roar Andy on ; the champagne — already dripping down off the edges of the table onto the temporary matting beneath from spillages — is almost overflowing the second-last level of glasses . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's absolute rubbish to suggest I 've been even a confidante while his marriage has been breaking up . ’ |
| 19 | He set off for the Canal Turn in glorious isolation while behind him the rest of the field manically tried to salvage some hope from the disaster . |
| 20 | The village felt rather as if it were a hopeful ark floating in isolation while the rest of the world was covered over , hidden from sight by watery winter . |
| 21 | Conservatives worried about the budget deficit implications of the proposed cut while the many liberals in congress were convinced that the cut did not go far enough . |
| 22 | Nor does it contemplate the knock-on consequences for Labour ministers of attempting to implement their programme while rebuilding the governmental machine . |
| 23 | The ability of DG1 officials to reshape management of the programme while continuing to cope with massive workloads deserves credit . |
| 24 | The government poured money into the railway programme while subsidies and guarantees encouraged private capital to develop the supplying industries . |
| 25 | In the years immediately following 1945 , however , foreign exchange markets were so disrupted and so strongly under the control of government that the post-war government could establish its own internal programme while relatively insulated from international financial forces . |
| 26 | But they chose to implement these cuts by destroying the primary health care programme while devoting almost 90 per cent of the health budget to just one high-tech teaching hospital in the capital . |
| 27 | At the London Hilton on Park Lane , general manager who implemented a quality management programme while in Jakarta in the 1980s , invited US trained experts to explain the concept to senior managers and supervisors attending a weeklong series of workshops . |
| 28 | A SNEAK thief snatched a handbag while the owner was in a public toilet cubicle , magistrates were told at Warrington yesterday . |
| 29 | A PENSIONER hit out last night at a thief who burgled her house and then stole her handbag while pretending to be a Good Samaritan . |
| 30 | I WISH to thank the very kind gentleman who gave me money when my purse was stolen from my handbag while I was shopping at Dunn 's store , St John 's Precinct . |