Example sentences of "while he [be] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 'll see Gerry while he 's still a baby anyway , although he 's missed his first few months , ’ she said . |
| 2 | While he was there a doctor was about to inject a dose of codeine when Peter exclaimed : ‘ You ca n't do that . |
| 3 | Beginning with the organisation of bible classes in the rural communities while he was still a student at Cumberland University , he became disillusioned with the apparent inability of the current educational system to tackle adequately the problems of social and economic mis-development in Appalachia . |
| 4 | While he was still a child , the family 's black servants had taught him to make clay models of animals , using thorns for their horns , and how to paint on stones using natural colours . |
| 5 | Cut off from her , with his father and stepmother both dying while he was still a young man , John several times tried to live with a man he loved , but it always ended in disappointment . |
| 6 | According to Mr Hornsby , ‘ One of the investors was a client of Clark Whitehill and at an early stage while he was still a client , the firm wrote to him saying if he did n't declare what his interests were , they would have to inform the Revenue . ’ |
| 7 | But while he was still a long way off … |
| 8 | Bramwell died while he was still a young man , but the three sisters who were left had an extraordinary gift . |
| 9 | ‘ Finzi lost several close relatives during the First World War , and I think that his pacifist stance developed while he was still a young man , and of course , so many influential writers and musicians had lost their lives in the trenches — take Arthur Butterworth , for example . ’ |
| 10 | Certainly both books are attributed to Walter Hilton Canonicus de Thurgarton , though the mood he expresses in Scale 1 , which is addressed to a female recluse , seems similar to that he expressed while he was still a solitary and suffering the kind of feelings of purposelessness he expresses in the De Imagine Peccati . |
| 11 | Lewis 's Allegory of Love ( 1936 ) , the book that made him known , was almost all written while he was still an atheist ; and his Christian polemics , which began as war-time broadcasts , never prevented him from winning secular admirers . |
| 12 | He first visited Sicily while he was still an undergraduate , and it was on a second visit to the island in 1808–9 that he wrote the first of his many privately published books , a translation of Cicero 's The Last Two Pleadings … against Caius Verres ( 1812 ) . |
| 13 | Educated at Haileybury and Trinity College , Cambridge , Edward Maitland volunteered for service in the South African war while he was still an undergraduate . |