Example sentences of "while [noun prp] [was/were] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Greg was assisting the woman they had heard moaning and who looked as if she 'd dislocated her jaw while David was with the pilot . |
| 2 | Everyone was pleased about the German two-seater , whose remains lay outside in the back of a lorry ; but nobody was going to say so while Woolley was in the room . |
| 3 | Just before we left , while Dennis was in the loo , I grabbed his wife and kissed her on the mouth . |
| 4 | After Mironov and Chapman had twice exchanged penalties in the first half , Chapman 's smart 30-yard dropped goal five minutes after the break put Cornwall ahead for the first time while Mishakov was off the field with a shoulder injury . |
| 5 | He continued with his plans for an expedition to Australia while Darwin was in the process of conceiving one of the most important discoveries in scientific history . |
| 6 | While England was in the grip of anti-invasion fever James was desperately urging Louis XIV to seize a unique opportunity . |
| 7 | Somebody left a half carafe of house red , probably with good reason , but they all downed it while Rose-Marie was in the kitchen arguing with her husband . |
| 8 | Rab rolled a smoke while Winnie was at the bar . |
| 9 | Anne sat in the front in the passenger seat while Adam was in the back with Abigail . |
| 10 | They met while Ralph was in the army . |
| 11 | The problem of the darkness on earth at night while Re was in the Underworld was solved by Re appointing Thoth to give light as the moon . |
| 12 | While Billy was at the bar ordering another round , Yanto told the girls about the motorbike and explained that it was their first outing on the machine . |
| 13 | One day in spring 1965 , while Miles was behind the counter at Better Books , Allen Ginsberg walked in . |
| 14 | Ironically , while Jack was with the latter , he had a fabulous season as a goalscoring wing-half and it was two goals he scored against the Palace in early April 1952 which equalled the former record of 14 goals by a half-back established by Arthur Grimsdell . |
| 15 | Just as he had last year in the pub in Kent when he 'd glassed the landlord — when the landlord had chatted to Jo while Jack was in the bog . |
| 16 | Er we 're limited with people and while Brian was in the verge of moving it which the electrics all had to be took out and rerun , he got called away , down to the pre-packs to a breakdown so obviously it did n't get done , the job stopped cos there 's nobody else . |
| 17 | While Britain was in the E R M until September last year , our interest rates could never knowingly undercut those of Germany . |
| 18 | In the first week of February , while Dowding was at the World Economic Forum at Davos , Switzerland [ see p. 37268 ] , influential members of the state ALP apparently decided that he should be replaced by Lawrence , then State Education and Aboriginal Affairs Minister . |
| 19 | On the third day , unshaven and too tired even to eat , I was examining Jimbo while Alec was in the middle of his sick parade . |
| 20 | It rang while Elizabeth was in the field and I picked it up and someone spoke to me , but I can not speak , so I tore it from the wall and then no one could speak to me . ) |
| 21 | Betty often came to see Finch while Henry was with the analyst . |