Example sentences of "while [pron] [was/were] [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 | While you were congratulating yourself on dodging Louie , Ambrose had you in view all the time . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I have n't worked it out in detail , ’ Melissa admitted , ‘ but I was thinking about it while you were putting her through your puff-and-blow routine … ’ |
| 7 | Hello there … the olympic gold rush hit Central South over the weekend … first as we predicted … as we hoped … the Henley on Thames rowing machine of Steve Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent cruised home in the coxless pairs … and while they were enjoying themselves in Spain . |
| 8 | I do n't think I would have made quite so much impact , however , if it had n't been for the fact that , while they were carrying me round the church yelling , ‘ Aliens ! ’ 'Jesus Christ ! ’ and ‘ The snake cometh ! ’ the roof fell in . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was hard to think while he was watching her like that , and even harder to follow the sudden switch in the conversation . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |