Example sentences of "while [pers pn] was [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or maybe , the other ends got hot while I was a-tapping them on the anvil . ’ |
| 2 | While I was thinking it over the ‘ phone rang . |
| 3 | The vociferation grew louder and louder all the time while I was serving myself at the counter . |
| 4 | While she was helping me into yet another nightshirt , we talked . |
| 5 | Leila did n't have the heart to tell him she doubted whether there 'd be much opportunity for him ever to do that , at least while he was helping her with Ari . |
| 6 | It was hard to think while he was watching her like that , and even harder to follow the sudden switch in the conversation . |
| 7 | In the taxi , while he was dropping her at her small house in Fulham , she made an effort to regain some inch of the indispensable contact she had squandered , but there seemed no way of doing it . |
| 8 | I had to wait about ten minutes while he was interviewing someone in connection with a current case , and then I was taken to his room . |
| 9 | The third case resulted from the willingness and need of the firm to take work from any source while it was establishing itself in a new market . |