Example sentences of "while [pers pn] [was/were] [adv] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | I called in to see Dad before coming here and while I was there an insurance investigator called Tom O'Neill came to see him . |
| 2 | However , I knew at least a couple of players because I 'd caddied for Roger Fidler in the 1977 British Open while I was still an assistant , and I 'd also carried Florentina Melina 's bag . |
| 3 | When she joined me-after we 'd met while she was still an undercover FedPol investigator — she sternly announced that she was coming into the firm for the sake of the money , and because the job offered interest and challenge without the lethal risks that a FedPol agent often had to run . |
| 4 | Lewis 's Allegory of Love ( 1936 ) , the book that made him known , was almost all written while he was still an atheist ; and his Christian polemics , which began as war-time broadcasts , never prevented him from winning secular admirers . |
| 5 | He first visited Sicily while he was still an undergraduate , and it was on a second visit to the island in 1808–9 that he wrote the first of his many privately published books , a translation of Cicero 's The Last Two Pleadings … against Caius Verres ( 1812 ) . |
| 6 | Educated at Haileybury and Trinity College , Cambridge , Edward Maitland volunteered for service in the South African war while he was still an undergraduate . |