Example sentences of "while [pron] be [adv] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can play in the garden while I 'm away she said . |
| 2 | While I 'm out you steal your lovers in here and entertain them , with sweet biscuits , almonds and sugar , just perfectly warm , oh yes , I know your tricks , women 's tricks . |
| 3 | Then while I was away she went on holiday straight after . |
| 4 | I went out and while I was out I knew something was wrong . |
| 5 | While I was there we had the council man there . |
| 6 | While I was there they found out I 'd fallen pregnant while I was on my home leave from Bullwood Hall . |
| 7 | While I was there I thought I 'd ask about our system as I believe we need a more sophisticated printer . |
| 8 | So while I was there I went to have a look at the erm the microwaves for Carl . |
| 9 | That morning I went to the hospital with the excuse of visiting an old woman who was a patient , and while I was there I met one of the carabinieri in the corridor . |
| 10 | While I was there I climbed up the suspension cables to the top of the mainland tower and looked around . |
| 11 | So I said to her while she was upstairs I got a pen I know it was a black one and I wrote in blue and put another N . |
| 12 | Now , we while you 're here you know wha just to sort of ten minutes erm I mean Ian 's produced these sheets |
| 13 | ‘ If you fancy a bit of sailing while you 're here you know where to come . ’ |
| 14 | While you 're there you have thirteen weeks down there , which is like three months , with th with the dog . |
| 15 | I said I did n't know , and thought no more of it and it was n't until David returned and was performing at the Arts Lab on the Sunday night that I remembered and said to David , ‘ Oh , by the way , while you were away I had a message — your father is not very well ’ . |
| 16 | While you were there you had a ball , and then life goes on . |
| 17 | But while we were there they had several meetings because of course we were going to be demobbed anyway , and the Colonel er of the regiment he had us together and so did the officers , and warned us that when we got back to civilian life we must er beware of these agitators who tried to er create suspicion amongst the troops who were coming back , and telling them that they ought to join er these revolutionary parties . |
| 18 | And while we were , while we were there we had some invitations to , to dine out with well it was my daughter 's and we went and had a meal with them and they were quite taken back by er they lived in this little which originally I had thought was a was a er a poultry house . |
| 19 | While we were there we toured the highlands , where the repression has been most concentrated , and met relatives of massacre victims and the widows of the ‘ disappeared ’ . |
| 20 | while they 're just you know whatever |
| 21 | Rae and his wife Heather , at the front in the photo , came to Malta on holiday and while they were here they came to stay with me and my husband Brian . |
| 22 | He then waited for the wasps to leave on bee-hunting expeditions , and while they were away he moved the cones a yard or so away from the entrances ( Figure 4.4 ) . |
| 23 | He vehemently dislikes smoking and while they were together she stopped smoking and cut down on drinking . |
| 24 | While he was out I had rewritten my will so that I left nothing to my ex . |
| 25 | In 1898 the then organist , Dr. George Robert Sinclair , entertained his friend Edward Elgar , and while he was there he wrote his famous Enigma Variations . |
| 26 | While he was there he learnt to fly with the University Air Squadron and was in despair when , on the outbreak of war , the RAF initially turned him down on medical grounds . |
| 27 | He was remanded to an open bail hostel , but while he was there he raped and murdered office worker Anna McGurk . |