Example sentences of "while i was [v-ing] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hellen , Wally and Oscar were producing films all over Canada and while I was enjoying the hospitality of Shelly Films I was also enjoying the pleasant company of Hellen Semmens . |
| 2 | Perhaps I take a special pleasure in Cold Comfort Farm from the fact that I was myself brought up in a rural setting , surrounded by wild-eyed manic depressives of the Starkadder school , while I was reading the works of D.H.Lawrence and F.R.Leavis , whose loam-laden versions of country life did n't quite chime with mine . |
| 3 | no he went off quick , but I mean before you , while I was getting the money |
| 4 | While I was taking the dog out . |
| 5 | While I was investigating the toilet paper downstairs I missed their new single ‘ Goodbye ! ’ . |
| 6 | While I was visiting the area , one perched on a small hawthorn tree on the other side of the road and I got quite close to it . |
| 7 | No , it would n't have surprised me if he 'd been at his easel while I was painting the town red ! |
| 8 | While I was testing the Seayak on the west coast of Ireland I failed to pull it far enough up the beach on the night of a rising spring tide . |
| 9 | ‘ While I was checking the computer I came across a reference to the P-PRD . |