Example sentences of "while they be at " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , while they 're at it , England might try to put their own house in order . |
| 2 | Ask any established pop band would they like to become a cult band and they 'll have you swiftly thrown out of their hotel suite , ordering another bottle of champers while they 're at it . |
| 3 | if you can get them going while they 're at school |
| 4 | Senior officers on the Russian submarines are paid a supplement in US dollars these days — $7 a day while they are at sea , which strikes me as an astonishing fact . |
| 5 | It eventually showed fishermen preparing and setting out on a peaceful evening for a night 's work ; while they are at sea , a storm blows up . |
| 6 | There seems no good reason why women who employ someone to help with their youngsters while they are at work should not get tax relief on the wages they pay . |
| 7 | While they were at the pub a fight broke out , which was declared incidental to the case in question , during the course of which a beer glass had been hurled against the ceiling and landed close to them . |
| 8 | In our main survey , only seven per cent told us that they had had classes about household budgeting or managing money while they were at school — and rather less than half of even this small minority said that they had been taught anything about buying on credit , or borrowing money . |
| 9 | While they were at Woodhall Spa in Lincolnshire , 627 was always under the shadow of 617 Squadron . |
| 10 | Of course there was still some opportunity for children to earn money while they were at school , and where those opportunities were taken there is evidence that parents considered this as part of the household income and expected it to be handed over ( Jamieson , 1986 ) . |
| 11 | While they were at the mercy of erratic weather or changes in the migration routes of reindeer , so that they might suffer famine from time to time , they were generally well fed , more or less comfortably adapted to their environment , and enjoyed a surplus of resources sufficient to allow expenditure of time on the decoration of clothing and utensils on story-telling and dancing . |
| 12 | Moore is said to have been a pioneer in producing a periodical for seamen , the Mariners ' Journal , which was published briefly between 185I and 1854 , and to have advocated the first system of paid shore based officials to look after the interests of their members while they were at sea . |
| 13 | You know and to talk about many other , while they were at it with this questionnaire , they tackled many other subjects as well you know . |
| 14 | The defending officer , Lt Neil Brown , said : ‘ Most of their drug abuse took place while they were at home on leave . ’ |
| 15 | The long summer holidays are over and MPs returned to the Commons to take stock of developments while they were at the seaside . |