Example sentences of "while he [was/were] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This act led , with Henry VIII 's blessing , to Beaton 's murder two months later ; and it was while he was with the Castalians in St Andrews that Knox first went far further than any earlier reformer in Scotland . |
| 2 | Perhaps Roy 's finest goalkeeping feat while he was with the Palace was in a Reserve match at Luton in 1950 , when he saved a thrice-taken penalty magnificently each time ! |
| 3 | He made his first appearance for Northampton Town at the age of 15 in a London Combination match with QPR and while he was with The Cobblers he was spotted by Tom Bromilow , a former Palace manager , who was then with Leicester City . |
| 4 | While he was with the Palace , Peter gained four England Under 23 caps ( two of them in matches staged at Selhurst Park ) and scored in every game . |
| 5 | On 29 August 1745 the younger Stuart , still only 20 , had slipped secretly away and on 24 October 1745 , while he was on the road , a Treaty of Alliance was drawn up at Fontainebleau , under which the French king promised ‘ James III ’ , as he was styled , to help him against their ‘ common enemy ’ , described , for diplomatic reasons , not as king of England but as Elector of Hanover . |
| 6 | Both are also accused of the attempted murder of police constables John Jenkinson , 27 , and Simon Castrey , 27 , allegedly stabbed by Vernage while he was on the run . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | While he was on the phone Lyn 's sister had come in , big-boned , yellow-haired Joanne , only nineteen and married six months . |
| 9 | And it took a long while for the letters to get there but he knew while he was on the boat that his wife was pregnant and er when he got here , she 'd it 'd been aborted . |
| 10 | Now , now you were saying before your father er was unemployed quite a lot of the time during your childhood erm did he actually get any Unemployment Benefit while he was on the dole ? |
| 11 | While he was on the correct route he was not guilty even though he intended to steal . |
| 12 | And he was very keen on Sara Calvert while he was on the mend . |
| 13 | A man is tonight being questioned by police in connection with a shotgun murder that occurred while he was on the run from prison . |
| 14 | So cos apparently , while he was on the phone she came knocking at the door then |
| 15 | Yeah , but , no Anton had to make a phone call anyway and he said while he was on the phone |
| 16 | And while he was on the film set or wherever he was you know , away from home for the week , he 'd be playing around with every bit of skirt he could find . |
| 17 | However , Derek was actually seen at his best when playing in the ‘ sweeper 's ’ role , which grew to prominence while he was at the Palace , or when lining up at centre-half alongside Ian Evans in Palace 's run to the FA Cup semi-final in 1976 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The seeds of a dramatic career were first sown while he was at the University of Indiana studying music . |
| 20 | Pahdra Singh has just called to say that while he was at the funeral his house was burgled and a number of valuable antiques were stolen . |
| 21 | " What happened while he was at the Lab had a hell of a lot to do with you . |
| 22 | In September 1928 , at the instigation of the diehards , the Empress was involved in yet another attempt to overthrow Ras Tafari ; her soldiers were ordered to arrest him while he was at the palace . |
| 23 | She asked for an orange juice , and while he was at the bar she found a table in the window . |
| 24 | They said an army sniper aimed a rifle with a telescopic sight at Jihad Mustafa Ali Sadek , 22 , and shot him in the back while he was at the top of his mosque 's minaret . |
| 25 | This argument reflects the official view disseminated after the war had begun again that Edward had been coerced into accepting the treaty while he was under the tutelage of Mortimer and Isabella and that therefore he could not be bound by it . |
| 26 | A revelation which William James experienced when taking nitrous oxide took the form of doggerel , which he genuinely believed to be of enormous significance while he was under the influence of the drug : Higamous Hogamous , women are monogamous , Hogamous higamous , men are polygamous . |
| 27 | In December 1927 , while he was in the midst of his darkness , and in june 1928 when he was better , the House of Commons rejected a proposal , carried by large majorities in the Church bodies , for a new prayer book , which was the old prayer book , from the age of King Charles II , modestly revised in a pastoral spirit long after the time when it needed revision . |
| 28 | He had formed what later became the Prince 's Trust while he was in the Navy , and the grants that went out in the early years were paid for , anonymously , out of his naval allowance . |
| 29 | Mrs Hiscocks , a divorcee , had been looking after a 650-acre wildlife sanctuary at Abuko for Mr Brewer , while he was in the UK for medical treatment . |
| 30 | University life had developed many of the traits Gedge first revealed while he was in the sixth form . |