Example sentences of "while i [was/were] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | while I was away at Art School . |
| 2 | He died of distemper while I was away at St Aubyn 's ; the news overwhelmed me with a child 's grief . |
| 3 | ‘ I got a lot of response from the article and my request for someone to move into my home and look after the children while I was away for the eight months in Bristol , ’ she said . |
| 4 | " They were very polite while I was here with them , but they must have boiled and fumed with indignation when they left me , " he said , chuckling . |
| 5 | It 's bad enough at first but then it gets worse even as they keep me because they found more , they found two more and that was while I was here for Christ 's sake while they held me while things were still happening more stuff came in while they were questioning me and they looked at me with disbelief horror disgust and I was going What ? |
| 6 | Not the igneous intrusion — that 's there all right ; a colleague of mine told me about it — and I did intend to work there while I was here in Moila . |
| 7 | ‘ I did pray the saint 's help for our plight , ’ Herluin persisted , ‘ while I was there with you . |
| 8 | There were bitter memories of broken love for Alan , a good-looking Londoner I had fallen for while I was still at Madame Sheba 's . |
| 9 | ‘ I fell in love for the first time while I was still at school , ’ she has revealed . |
| 10 | She must have had a posting , or else obtained her demob while I was still at Binbrook , because I have a distinct memory of Sheila hammering nails into this crate before despatching it to her new destination , and scornfully refusing all help from J. , who was standing by with the hammer and nails . |
| 11 | ‘ Unfortunately , they were both drowned in a ferry disaster in the Greek islands while I was still at university . |
| 12 | remember going to see Hamlet with er Laurence Olivier at er while I was still at school and er we thought it |
| 13 | It happened while I was still with the SDECE . |
| 14 | At one stage my trousers were safely in San Diego while I was still in shorts in Albuquerque . |
| 15 | Well , as near as possible because , erm , I mean I was appointed to , to Africa while I was still in college |