Example sentences of "while [pers pn] [was/were] [adv] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ While I was too young to understand any of it . |
| 2 | While she was too young to understand , Diana certainly caught the pitch of the family 's frustration , and , believing that she was ‘ a nuisance , ’ she accepted a corresponding load of guilt and failure for disappointing her parents and family , feelings she has now learned to accept and recognize . |
| 3 | Last summer , when the Sainsbury Wing was being dedicated at the National Gallery , Lord Sainsbury said in his speech that , while he was very happy to have provided that money for the Wing , he really thought the government should have paid for it . |
| 4 | At the same time , while it was now impossible to recover any significant sense of the centrality of English within the process of political democracy , the Cambridge Crisis allowed the wider debates about the " democratic " process to come into play within English studies . |
| 5 | However , while it was comparatively easy to cobble together a story around a popular star , the British industry was not yet well organized when it came to finding a steady output of ideas for dramatic features and developing them into workable scripts . |
| 6 | There was also an urgency to protect and preserve while it was still possible to do so : the countryside was in change and this seemed to invigorate the various lobbies which fought for their special interest : flora , fauna , landscape , outdoor recreation and protection from development . |
| 7 | And he used to put them into the oven while it was still hot to bake for him used to pick them up on our way home from school . |
| 8 | While it was obviously impossible to claim that literary art still sprang from the general community , this could be accounted for by the gulf between literature and life caused by the processes of industrialization . |