Example sentences of "while [pron] were [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They would break in in a trice , while you were putting fresh shot in your fowling gun , and cut us into mincemeat . |
| 2 | The final bit of luck we had on this job was while we were refinishing this table . |
| 3 | Well , while we were having this conversation , there was a lady in the office who used to work for Fred Astaire and when I left she rang him up . |
| 4 | Delgado 's boy got back while we were making some coffee and said Russell would be here . |
| 5 | Well while we were doing that mummy was being all these clothes ready for her birthday . |
| 6 | They went over all , while they were doing this work and he gave us a sheet last week , we were doing all the questions this week and he went over all the questions with us ! |
| 7 | And while they were killing each other |