Example sentences of "while [pron] was [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While I was at the local Further Education College I met Michael . |
| 2 | The pains had begun while she was in the flat one morning soon after Brian had left for the hospital . |
| 3 | Friend never came while she was in the real world . |
| 4 | The household chaplain , whose role it was to minister to the spiritual needs of princely families , could also produce letters , such as those written for Stephen of Blois to his wife Adela while he was on the First Crusade ; or charters , like those produced for the post-Conquest dukes of Normandy . |
| 5 | While he was on the correct route he was not guilty even though he intended to steal . |
| 6 | Mrs Tiller presided over the one in Blackpool while he was at the grander one in Addlestone , Surrey , to which , when the Girls were playing in London , he would invite small groups for a short weekend . |
| 7 | University life had developed many of the traits Gedge first revealed while he was in the sixth form . |
| 8 | Previously , the most radical members of the Moldavian Popular Front had been advocating independence from the Soviet Union , but none had wanted to rejoin Romania while it was under the oppressive rule of the Ceausescus . |
| 9 | He said that while it was in the wrong place it would have hindered Liam 's breathing . |