Example sentences of "while still at " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made his first professional purchase at the age of 16 , while still at art college , when he bought a plate for two shillings at Preston market . |
| 2 | Dylan 's earliest musical influences were country music ( the two Hanks , Snow and Williams ) and rock 'n' roll ( while still at school he had an ambition to join Little Richard 's band ) . |
| 3 | About two weeks later , while still at Biot , Mrs Rose began receiving strange messages by telephone purporting to come from Crabb which were according to Mrs Rose supposed to have contained personal phrases and nicknames which only the two of them knew . |
| 4 | If possible , help your child to practise the correct behaviours while still at home . |
| 5 | ‘ In this way boys and girls would get ample opportunity of guidance as to their choice of careers , and those who were going to be apprenticed or learn skilled trades might have all their arrangements made while still at school . ’ |
| 6 | ( It was this Thomas Peall who , while still at College in 1795 , produced glanders in an ass by placing the discharge from a farcy ulcer inside the nostrils ) . |
| 7 | He took the University of London Matriculation Examination in 1932 , obtaining credits or better in every subject , while still at school , as a result of which he was admitted to the University , where despite enormous handicaps , he gained a Honours B.Sc. , followed by the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in science and geology . |
| 8 | Now he has time on his hands to reflect on a career which started so promisingly when he made his Worcestershire debut while still at Malvern College in 1982 , but never lived up to those aforementioned expectations simply because of injury . |
| 9 | We were cleared for the ILS at Porto while still at FL070 ( it 's not that busy ! ) and given the QNH . |
| 10 | But there was no mistake when on 21 April 1823 , while still at work on the Crucifixion he had to put the project on hold . |
| 11 | BRAINY kids should start swotting for university degrees while still at school , Britain 's top heads demanded yesterday . |
| 12 | No mention at all is made of sign language in the book , even though 82 per cent of deaf young people report its use while still at school ( Kyle and Allsop , 1982a ) . |
| 13 | In February , while still at CCF , he engineered his bank 's acquisition , jointly with Germany 's Berliner Handels- und Frankfurter Bank , of Charterhouse , a British merchant bank owned by the Royal Bank of Scotland . |
| 14 | He was one of several players to make their debut for the province while still at school . |
| 15 | Another fellow student , D E Woods , won the Kings ' Prize at Bisley while still at college . |
| 16 | But he was informed in November , while still at Princeton , that he had won the Nobel Prize for Literature . |
| 17 | In this spirit I joined the Abortion Law Reform Association while still at school ; this was just before the passage of the 1967 Abortion Act . |
| 18 | While still at grammar school , Oskar Reinhart suspected that art was where his future lay , rather than the commercial life for which he was intended . |
| 19 | While still at Lincoln 's Inn he had joined the British India Society and the Anti-Corn Law League , both of which confirmed his radical political leanings . |
| 20 | His three cricketing sons became committed Christians while still at Eton but after his father 's death C. T. lost his fervour , until January 1884 , after he had believed that G. B. was dying . |
| 21 | While still at school Widgery had written for a short-lived national schools magazine , which rapidly collapsed . |
| 22 | Charles while still at Fontenoy welcomed into his following a new recruit — Bernard 's 15-year old son William . |
| 23 | He decided to kill of the beloved character while still at the height of his popularity . |
| 24 | Perhaps her cure took place while she was still at Hampole and the Office refers to her as a recluse because that is what she later became , or perhaps she had become an anchoress while still at Hampole . |
| 25 | After visiting once with her mother , while still at school , Juliet had fallen in love with the hospital , and had vowed there and then to do her nursing training at Riverside . |
| 26 | IT seems almost unbelievable that it is 20 years since the Brodsky String Quartet 's public concert in the Teesside Polytechnic while still at school in Middlesbrough . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , a quiz buff at Shildon 's fair to maudlin match on Saturday asked which British club can claim most international caps won by players while still at the club ? |
| 28 | It is little short of tragic that she has been cut off , while still at the peak of her singing power . |
| 29 | William Thaw , the first to get a commission , had owned a hydroplane while still at Yale , which made him acceptable as a French bomber pilot . |