Example sentences of "while it [was/were] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Horst and Jurgen would stand to one side of the diggers and , as each turf was cut and while it was being stacked , they would investigate the hollow from which it had been removed . |
| 2 | The machinery was damaged by employees of the stevedore while it was being unloaded . |
| 3 | But while it was being chopped down the Collector and his men had emptied their guns into the hacking sepoys , and the door had become tightly jammed with the dead , many of whom still had bayonets wedged in their lifeless hands . |
| 4 | The scuffles broke out when more than 60 protesters began tearing down a fence while it was being erected by council contractors around the trees on a strip of land at Stafford Park . |
| 5 | Normally , when a reader no longer requires a book , it is returned to its location in the stacks , and the second copy of its call-slip , which would have been filed while it was being consulted , is cancelled and stored . |
| 6 | We cleaned out his quarters a couple of days ago and put him outside while it was being done . |
| 7 | I assumed he 'd found us somewhere else to live while it was being rebuilt . |