Example sentences of "[verb] while [pron] was at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She also agreed to tell him each evening about the sort of day she had had while he was at work . |
| 2 | District controller Ian Jackson stressed the new boat is not an RNLI rescue boat , although it will respond to distress calls while it was at sea . |
| 3 | Before the year was out my father had invested his small gratuity , his savings — for my mother had worked while he was at war — and opened a shop near the Market Place , specialising in selling components for those who wanted to build their own sets . |
| 4 | She could n't write while she was at Bristol . |
| 5 | Since Ferdinand 's instructions to the Junta of Government ( which he left in Madrid to govern while he was at Bayonne ) were to cultivate French friendship at all costs , and since these counsels were not modified until after the outbreak of a popular rising , it meant that official Spain could not take the leadership of the instinctive movement against France . |