Example sentences of "while i [am/are] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While I am on my feet , perhaps I may apologise for referring in an earlier answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Northampton , North when I meant my hon. Friend the Member for Littleborough and Saddleworth ( Mr. Dickens ) , who made the suggestion . |
| 2 | While I am about it , I had better apologise on behalf of a contributor , who was castigated by post for not looking up the meaning of a phrase that was , to him , mysterious . |
| 3 | While I am near her , |
| 4 | Now , sweetie , get me a bit of newspaper from the box , and dump all the silver on it , and while I 'm at it , you might get the vase and candlestick from the sitting room , and I 'll do your trophy if you like . ’ |
| 5 | Oh while I 'm at it , might as well dish out the agendas as well since we 've already started . |
| 6 | Send it back immediately , or I 'll take it back for you — and punch his impertinent face in while I 'm at it ! ’ |
| 7 | And I suppose I better get er Carl 's birthday card while I 'm at it . |
| 8 | Do you want me go hire a video camera while I 'm at it ? |
| 9 | By the way Tom while I 'm on it erm I mislead you yesterday erm I look in my list I realized I |
| 10 | And while I 'm on my way all our operatives in Germany hit the streets — with copies of Tweed 's photo , and Grey 's . |
| 11 | ‘ Put mine there too , ’ she said , ‘ and while I 'm about it , anyone who would like to join our Amateur Dramatics Group is very welcome . |
| 12 | ‘ Right , and I 'll take a shufti round the wood while I 'm about it . |
| 13 | Those questions seem to me to be inexorably leading to ‘ And while I 'm about it , why do n't you clean your fingernails and wash your hair ? ’ |
| 14 | What the hell , though , while I 'm about it — the whole truth . |
| 15 | I fetch myself another gin while I 'm up and pour a bit in Mum 's tea while I 'm about it . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've now arranged to fly out and spend the last two weeks of his working trip with him as a kind of nosing-around holiday while I 'm about it , but the first two weeks … ’ |