Example sentences of "was while he " in BNC.
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| 1 | She settled down to tell him how old Alan was while he leant forward , listening with pleasure to the slightly nasal accent of Stoke on Trent . |
| 2 | This act led , with Henry VIII 's blessing , to Beaton 's murder two months later ; and it was while he was with the Castalians in St Andrews that Knox first went far further than any earlier reformer in Scotland . |
| 3 | It was while he was travelling to South Africa in 1899 via India that he became the first man ever to take a cine-film of a total eclipse of the sun . |
| 4 | It was while he was in this low state , and working hard to complete The Magic Flute , under Schikaneder 's constant pressure , that another disquieting commission arrived . |
| 5 | It was while he was still at Seletar that England declared war on Germany on September 3 , 1939 and he did not return to England until February , 1940 . |
| 6 | It was while he was on his way that he was overtaken by the French army at Crécy-en-Ponthieu where , on 26 August 1346 , the first of the major land battles of the war was fought . |
| 7 | It was while he was away in England , crowning his wife as queen and seeking further material support for the war , that his brother , Thomas , duke of Clarence , was defeated and killed at Bauge , in Anjou , by a Franco-Scottish force on 22 March 1421 . |
| 8 | It was while he was besieging that town that the king contracted a fatal illness . |
| 9 | It was while he was playing with his first train set , a fifth birthday present , that the news reached his mother of her father 's suicide . |
| 10 | Although Hazel guessed that they must now have gone further from the warren than any rabbit he had ever talked to , he was not sure whether they were yet safely away : and it was while he was wondering — not for the first time — whether he could hear sounds of pursuit that he first noticed the dark masses of the trees and the brook disappearing among them . |
| 11 | It was while he was with York Rep that one of his plays , A Choice of Partners was seen in production by a member of the BBC Script Unit . |
| 12 | For two years he was exhibited in fairgrounds , and it was while he was on display in an empty shop in Whitechapel Road , London , opposite the London Hospital , that Treves first saw him . |
| 13 | In fact , it was while he was up for the interview that he read in The Times the advertisement that had brought him to Burleigh : |
| 14 | It was while he was dithering that the headmaster said : |
| 15 | It was while he was thus engaged in the Plaza of Broken Moons that disaster struck . |
| 16 | It was while he was bringing a second helping of kedgeree to Fishbane that the row broke out a few tables away . |
| 17 | It was while he was at Leyhill that Leslie got into drama college . |
| 18 | It was while he and his parents were visiting his brother , Ewan , 28 , a poultry farm manager , that he went to see Sangiti Secondary School run by the Sisters of Kilimanjaro . |
| 19 | Cos it was while he was phoning , you know the , the boy said you can get a telephone qu er a special telephone fitted . |