Example sentences of "while [pers pn] were at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And what 's Popsey been doing while you were at the park ? |
| 2 | And he asked me to telephone him while you were at the Casa Madrid , and pretend I was Miguelito . ’ |
| 3 | While they were at the mercy of erratic weather or changes in the migration routes of reindeer , so that they might suffer famine from time to time , they were generally well fed , more or less comfortably adapted to their environment , and enjoyed a surplus of resources sufficient to allow expenditure of time on the decoration of clothing and utensils on story-telling and dancing . |
| 4 | The long summer holidays are over and MPs returned to the Commons to take stock of developments while they were at the seaside . |
| 5 | While they were at the pub a fight broke out , which was declared incidental to the case in question , during the course of which a beer glass had been hurled against the ceiling and landed close to them . |