Example sentences of "while they [was/were] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stuart Neild is alleged to have shot Paul Bartlett , who was twenty and from Aylesbury , while they were both on guard duty outside the Gibraltar Army Barracks in Hampshire on Saturday . |
| 2 | Those who supported the document accepted that economic reform could not be realized without an integrated market , but they also urged the strengthening of the state role in fiscal , monetary , tax and foreign relations policy ; while they were not against private ownership they favoured state ownership in industries which were of " economic interest " . |
| 3 | ‘ They owned this kind of enclave on the coast just outside Ajaccio — like a kind of tourist village — that 's where they kept the women , really , while they were away on business . |
| 4 | Around three thousand letters and cards were sent to the children while they were away from home in a campaign resembling those organised by Amnesty for political prisoners . |
| 5 | Well , for instance ; one night Stella went crazy and assaulted a visitor who had called Stella II a skinny black bitch right in the middle of her rendition of ‘ Te Amo ’ , and he meant it , right there in the middle of his number — well Madame not only showed her approval of the assault by conspicuously buying Stella drinks every night for the whole of the following week ; as soon as she saw the fight starting she got off her stool , yanked out the plug on the sound system , hitched up that frock , got straight up on the stage while they were still on the floor ( she knew Stella would sort him out ) and she went into an unforgettable aria of abuse against this stranger which culminated in her eschewing all her usual magnificence of phrasing and just standing there shouting fuck off at him , screaming fuck off , if you do n't like it you can fuck off , E , X , I , T , there it is , you came in through it and now you can fuck off out of it , fuck off out of it why do n't you you stupid bastard ( and by now of course someone had dragged Stella off and we were all up on our chairs cheering while the disgraced stranger made his slow and humiliating exit through the parting crowd ) why do n't you just piss off and insult someone who does n't have the balls to answer back because you 've picked the wrong girls here darling , fuck off that 's it , fucking fuck off , fucking fuck off right through my front door and do n't you ever , do n't you ever , do n't you ever step on my fucking frock again . |
| 6 | He told the court that as Newton pulled away , he kicked out while they were still on the ground . |
| 7 | And William was a very careful man , we may be sure : while they were still at 24 Wilmington Square , and he was still only in his twenties , he had the foresight to arrange for a Titford family grave at Abney Park Cemetery in Stoke Newington . |
| 8 | While they were still in the minority one could , on the basis of Rooney 's attitude , accuse them of moral censorship when they opposed those who argued that abortion was unethical because it harms the foetus . |
| 9 | In this respect he was no different from greater Prime Ministers , Gladstone before him and Churchill after him , upon whom senility began to descend while they were still in office , except that with him it came when he was ten years or more younger . |
| 10 | The litmus test of this assertion is the fact that so many UK nationalized industries managed to improve their performance in the run-up to privatization , while they were still in public ownership . |
| 11 | News had reached them while they were still in Sydney that the drought that had afflicted the Liverpool Plains earlier in the year had finally broken with abundant rains . |
| 12 | But while they were out in the garden during the afternoon they began talking to the man next door who had a motorbike and was leaving for the City on it at seven . |
| 13 | It was difficult while they were actually in the centre , of course , but she made sure she did n't go for coffee or to the staff canteen at the same time as him and she 'd avoided the social club completely . |