Example sentences of "while i [be] [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | While I 'm out at work during the week I get a break from my son 's peculiarities . |
| 2 | while I was away at Art School . |
| 3 | He died of distemper while I was away at St Aubyn 's ; the news overwhelmed me with a child 's grief . |
| 4 | While I was up at university , an awful lot of students from wealthy backgrounds were fiddling the dole somehow , and I reckon that the politicians and civil servants think that all they 're in fact doing is cutting their own children 's pocket money . |
| 5 | But true to his plan not to do anything to interrupt , or to deflect me from , my studies , while I was up at Oxford , he took the first opportunity , now that I had gone down , to enlist my services with The Criterion . |
| 6 | ‘ They could have fixed it while I was out at lunch and they never tell you , not if it 's Saturday . ’ |
| 7 | There were bitter memories of broken love for Alan , a good-looking Londoner I had fallen for while I was still at Madame Sheba 's . |
| 8 | ‘ I fell in love for the first time while I was still at school , ’ she has revealed . |
| 9 | She must have had a posting , or else obtained her demob while I was still at Binbrook , because I have a distinct memory of Sheila hammering nails into this crate before despatching it to her new destination , and scornfully refusing all help from J. , who was standing by with the hammer and nails . |
| 10 | ‘ Unfortunately , they were both drowned in a ferry disaster in the Greek islands while I was still at university . |
| 11 | remember going to see Hamlet with er Laurence Olivier at er while I was still at school and er we thought it |