Example sentences of "was while " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was while we were at Denmark Street that the punk scene — as it would later be called — began to develop . |
| 2 | It was while travelling around the world for the UN that she first became impressed with the simple forms of cosmetics made from natural ingredients used by remote communities . |
| 3 | It was while travelling around the world that the seeds of her future calling were first sown . |
| 4 | Gerard confined himself to documentaries and it was while making a 90-minute update on South Africa , Back On The Frontier , for ITV in 1986 , that he became fired up to press ahead again single-mindedly with the feature . |
| 5 | From the first day they completely opted out , wandering around saying how beautiful it was while we dug the vegetable garden . |
| 6 | She settled down to tell him how old Alan was while he leant forward , listening with pleasure to the slightly nasal accent of Stoke on Trent . |
| 7 | It was while we were sitting there that my father must have died of a heart attack in Bath . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was while Kasmin was at Marlborough that he met David Hockney . |
| 10 | It was while filming Ensign Pulver that he received news that June , the sister who was really his mother , had cancer . |
| 11 | For it was while changing trains at Reading Station that T. E. Lawrence lost the original manuscript of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom . |
| 12 | It was while waiting for a train on Uxbridge Station that the sight of a poster for the Tower Furnishing Company inspired W. S. Gilbert to write The Yeomen of the Guard . |
| 13 | It was while they were sitting on the grass en famille watching the Highland dancing that Jean first noticed Berta . |
| 14 | It was while exploring this river some distance upstream from Dale End that Jenny came upon stepping-stones stretching across it from bank to bank . |
| 15 | Dissatisfied as he was , it was while Bishop of Bristol that he made the moral stand which guaranteed that his name would be heard for three centuries whenever Cornish men were gathered together . |
| 16 | It was while I was in this slough of despond that my publisher rang to ask if I would like to read a manuscript that needed transforming into a readable book before it could be published . |
| 17 | It was while being given an introductory tour of Grove House . |
| 18 | In this I may be vulnerable , for I was on the lookout for miracles and it was while watching Nancy , listening to her and eventually breaking my own icy shield and talking to her , that I came close to seeing what I was looking for . |
| 19 | Perhaps it was while watching the faces , that I began to get a mirror of my own doubts . |
| 20 | He was only missing from Palace line-ups from that time as a result of injury or illness , though his playing record demonstrates that he was prone to neither , and it was while we had Billy Callender in goal that Palace came closest to returning to Division 2 in 1928–29 , when we finished as runners-up to Charlton on goal average . |
| 21 | ‘ No player … has shown greater ability to retain possession of the ball … his passes are invariably accurate and reach a forward so that the latter can make rapid headway ’ eulogised a Palace scribe back in 1913 , by which time H.H. ( as he was popularly called ) had become our club captain — indeed it was while Harry was our skipper that we had our best Southern League season and went within an ace of winning the Championship in 1914 . |
| 22 | He became a huge favourite with pre-war fans , who loved his fiercely determined performances , and it was while Bob was playing for us that we came closest to clinching the Southern League championship , being denied on goal average alone by Swindon Town in 1913–14 . |
| 23 | It was while in Japan that he had beaten the Petty Officer half to death in a drunken rage . |
| 24 | The Stewarts had another residence , in Renfrewshire , and it was while they were visiting it that a tragedy occurred . |
| 25 | It was while he was travelling to South Africa in 1899 via India that he became the first man ever to take a cine-film of a total eclipse of the sun . |
| 26 | It was while I was pressing our home phone number that I remembered . |
| 27 | It was while they were having breakfast on the following morning that they saw a car pull up outside . |
| 28 | It was while they were finishing their belated tea that Mrs Blunt arrived . |
| 29 | It was while teaching a form called ‘ the sink ’ — the exam failures and the less bright — that he came to that perception which all good teachers share : to inspire pupils you have first to gain their attention and one of the best ways of doing that is through humour and anecdote . |
| 30 | It was while she was wiping her face that she began to get an uncanny feeling that she was being watched . |