Example sentences of "while [pron] [noun sg] be [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Dad come in , there 's me running out while my Dad 's by the door in case one of them jumped I 'm so scared of spiders I hate them ! |
| 2 | In the latest incident , Miss Earley said a teenage thug broke in while her grandmother was in the house . |
| 3 | But , unlike the other students , she stayed fully sentient while her finger was in the socket thanks to her Friend-engineered connection . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | While his wife is on an official visit to Paris , he will spend his birthday at Highgrove , his Gloucestershire home . |
| 6 | Surely only the most decadent of aristocrats would make a play for another woman while his wife was in the same room . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The adventures of Someone , Something and their five children are a hallucination experienced by Larry while his body is at a low level of psychic energy . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | So while your book is in the early malleable stage , remember form and see if you can not arrange things to good advantage . |
| 12 | We all four had dinner together one night while your brother was at the hospital . |
| 13 | I asked Sergei while our friend was in the gents . |