Example sentences of "while [pron] [noun sg] [was/were] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the latest incident , Miss Earley said a teenage thug broke in while her grandmother was in the house . |
| 2 | But , unlike the other students , she stayed fully sentient while her finger was in the socket thanks to her Friend-engineered connection . |
| 3 | Unable or unwilling to curb her arrogance while her star was in the ascendency , the Empress had alienated nearly all those who had abandoned the King . |
| 4 | Surely only the most decadent of aristocrats would make a play for another woman while his wife was in the same room . |
| 5 | Mr Redmond had been looking after the woodyard where he worked while his employer was on a cruise to restore his health , and Sarah told Anne that her father had been given fifty pounds as a mark of appreciation when his employer returned . |
| 6 | Eleven ? — regular visits to the Wellington Street Barracks canteen where , list clutched in his hand , he did the weekly shop while his father was in the orderly room . |
| 7 | Dickens based the character upon a ‘ reduced old lady ’ , Mrs Elizabeth Roylance , with whom he was sent to board as a child while his family were in the Marshalsea Prison , DS 8 et seq . |
| 8 | We all four had dinner together one night while your brother was at the hospital . |
| 9 | I asked Sergei while our friend was in the gents . |