Example sentences of "while he [was/were] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This act led , with Henry VIII 's blessing , to Beaton 's murder two months later ; and it was while he was with the Castalians in St Andrews that Knox first went far further than any earlier reformer in Scotland . |
| 2 | Perhaps Roy 's finest goalkeeping feat while he was with the Palace was in a Reserve match at Luton in 1950 , when he saved a thrice-taken penalty magnificently each time ! |
| 3 | While he was with the Palace , Peter gained four England Under 23 caps ( two of them in matches staged at Selhurst Park ) and scored in every game . |
| 4 | He made his first appearance for Northampton Town at the age of 15 in a London Combination match with QPR and while he was with The Cobblers he was spotted by Tom Bromilow , a former Palace manager , who was then with Leicester City . |
| 5 | Emlyn Williams , who stayed with them in this period while he was on a tour with his Charles Dickens readings , describes scenes of domestic industry and felicity . |
| 6 | Both are also accused of the attempted murder of police constables John Jenkinson , 27 , and Simon Castrey , 27 , allegedly stabbed by Vernage while he was on the run . |
| 7 | A man is tonight being questioned by police in connection with a shotgun murder that occurred while he was on the run from prison . |
| 8 | Now , now you were saying before your father er was unemployed quite a lot of the time during your childhood erm did he actually get any Unemployment Benefit while he was on the dole ? |
| 9 | And while he was on the film set or wherever he was you know , away from home for the week , he 'd be playing around with every bit of skirt he could find . |
| 10 | While he was on the phone Lyn 's sister had come in , big-boned , yellow-haired Joanne , only nineteen and married six months . |
| 11 | So cos apparently , while he was on the phone she came knocking at the door then |
| 12 | Yeah , but , no Anton had to make a phone call anyway and he said while he was on the phone |
| 13 | And he was very keen on Sara Calvert while he was on the mend . |
| 14 | On 29 August 1745 the younger Stuart , still only 20 , had slipped secretly away and on 24 October 1745 , while he was on the road , a Treaty of Alliance was drawn up at Fontainebleau , under which the French king promised ‘ James III ’ , as he was styled , to help him against their ‘ common enemy ’ , described , for diplomatic reasons , not as king of England but as Elector of Hanover . |
| 15 | And it took a long while for the letters to get there but he knew while he was on the boat that his wife was pregnant and er when he got here , she 'd it 'd been aborted . |
| 16 | The seeds of a dramatic career were first sown while he was at the University of Indiana studying music . |
| 17 | She asked for an orange juice , and while he was at the bar she found a table in the window . |
| 18 | They said an army sniper aimed a rifle with a telescopic sight at Jihad Mustafa Ali Sadek , 22 , and shot him in the back while he was at the top of his mosque 's minaret . |
| 19 | " What happened while he was at the Lab had a hell of a lot to do with you . |
| 20 | However , Derek was actually seen at his best when playing in the ‘ sweeper 's ’ role , which grew to prominence while he was at the Palace , or when lining up at centre-half alongside Ian Evans in Palace 's run to the FA Cup semi-final in 1976 . |
| 21 | In September 1928 , at the instigation of the diehards , the Empress was involved in yet another attempt to overthrow Ras Tafari ; her soldiers were ordered to arrest him while he was at the palace . |
| 22 | Pahdra Singh has just called to say that while he was at the funeral his house was burgled and a number of valuable antiques were stolen . |
| 23 | A revelation which William James experienced when taking nitrous oxide took the form of doggerel , which he genuinely believed to be of enormous significance while he was under the influence of the drug : Higamous Hogamous , women are monogamous , Hogamous higamous , men are polygamous . |
| 24 | This argument reflects the official view disseminated after the war had begun again that Edward had been coerced into accepting the treaty while he was under the tutelage of Mortimer and Isabella and that therefore he could not be bound by it . |
| 25 | Alexander Solzhenitsyn held much of his work in his mind while he was in a labour camp . |
| 26 | While he was in no position to read her the Riot Act , it was plain commonsense to discourage her from her present ways . |
| 27 | But while he was in the Shaffer play , there was no time to see other actors at work . |
| 28 | Mrs Hiscocks , a divorcee , had been looking after a 650-acre wildlife sanctuary at Abuko for Mr Brewer , while he was in the UK for medical treatment . |
| 29 | James Seely 's experiences while he was in the army may appear out of place in the context of this book . |
| 30 | Elvis 's own mother , Gladys , to whom he was devoted , died of a heart attack on August 14 , 1958 , while he was in the US Army . |