Example sentences of "while i [was/were] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While I was up at university , an awful lot of students from wealthy backgrounds were fiddling the dole somehow , and I reckon that the politicians and civil servants think that all they 're in fact doing is cutting their own children 's pocket money . |
| 2 | But true to his plan not to do anything to interrupt , or to deflect me from , my studies , while I was up at Oxford , he took the first opportunity , now that I had gone down , to enlist my services with The Criterion . |
| 3 | In addition , I no longer saw any of my old friends while I was up in London and my Hampstead flat felt rather empty without them . |
| 4 | If you want to know , it completed the whole exercise for me , the first time , while I was out to lunch . |
| 5 | Mr Lewis , the mechanic , for example , soon managed to quieten my baby daughter Rachel while I was out of the room . |
| 6 | ‘ They could have fixed it while I was out at lunch and they never tell you , not if it 's Saturday . ’ |
| 7 | He said : ‘ I was very disappointed to miss three winners last week including Pip 's Pride in the Racecall Gold Trophy while I was out with ‘ flu . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ That big yellow beast did this while I was out for a swim . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I told her I 'd try and see you while I was down in this part of the world . ’ |