Example sentences of "while [pers pn] be at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , while I am at least mildly interested in his thoughts on evolution , why would the publisher of Angell 's book believe I would care what Gould thought about a baseball book ? |
| 2 | Now , sweetie , get me a bit of newspaper from the box , and dump all the silver on it , and while I 'm at it , you might get the vase and candlestick from the sitting room , and I 'll do your trophy if you like . ’ |
| 3 | Oh while I 'm at it , might as well dish out the agendas as well since we 've already started . |
| 4 | Send it back immediately , or I 'll take it back for you — and punch his impertinent face in while I 'm at it ! ’ |
| 5 | What , so your at the uhum , place , while I 'm at doing . |
| 6 | And I suppose I better get er Carl 's birthday card while I 'm at it . |
| 7 | Yeah usually if there 's no stamp wanted I get one of lasses while I 'm at work , they 'll drop it off for me . |
| 8 | While I 'm at university . |
| 9 | Do you want me go hire a video camera while I 'm at it ? |
| 10 | I knew Washington quite well , having visited it two or three times while I was at Amherst in 1969 . |
| 11 | When two men tried to break into my kitchen via a skylight window at midnight while I was at home , I made the grave error of dialling 999 . |
| 12 | I did n't see her while I was at Bourn , which I was not sorry about . |
| 13 | This happened once while I was at Binbrook , and we were all jailed for a week — well , con fined to our quarters , really , but it amounted to the same thing . |
| 14 | On the seventh spawning they knocked the glass down again , while I was at school , but my Dad put it up again before all the eggs were eaten . |
| 15 | While I was at Fender I decided that I was going to start my own company , and in 1983 went ahead with Metaltronix . |
| 16 | I came across feminist politics while I was at college in London in the mid-seventies . |
| 17 | ‘ They 've also managed to get into my house while I was at work . |
| 18 | Sitting in my L-shaped room , stone-cold to my very marrow , with John still sleeping as peacefully as a child at my feet , I faced that fact , too , while I was at it ; and also a few others . |
| 19 | Recalling going into Kyle , while I was at Stromefirry-nofirry , and remembering that nightmare vision of the burned-black man after the blevey — Sir Rufus with his black bones , black nails , black wood and his black jaw hinged back and very much a dental-records job — and thinking , How did they identify Andy ? |
| 20 | Mrs Fairfax had written to me while I was at Gateshead , telling me that the guests had all gone , and Mr Rochester had gone to London to buy a carriage for his wedding . |
| 21 | He looked after Lucy during the day while I was at work , but I found out afterwards that he used to leave her a lot with my friends upstairs . |
| 22 | I have n't actually seen Charley since his return , as he called on Hamish while I was at work , but at lunchtime today I conveyed your presents for Christopher and Lydie to Jenners Rose Street restaurant and placed them in Inga 's hands ( a handy reminder to me of their birthdays , too ) . |
| 23 | Queen Victoria had a brass plaque put up in his memory in St George 's Chapel at Windsor , where I searched for it and found it while I was at Eton . |
| 24 | I was , however , devoted to the three dogs I owned while I was at The Milebrook . |
| 25 | Several times while I was at Magdalen he had me to dine at All Souls with its distinguished Fellows . |
| 26 | I had read Revolt in the Desert while I was at Eton , and I later read Seven Pillars of Wisdom as soon as it was published after his death . |
| 27 | While I was at the local Further Education College I met Michael . |
| 28 | While I was at Cambridge , I began to follow a rule of life which I hoped would prepare me for the priesthood . |
| 29 | All I knew was that one afternoon while I was at the office in London someone poured petrol through my letter-box at Seaview , along with a note warning me that if I did n't get out of G.W. Fashions there would be other similarly unpleasant incidents to look forward to , and that next time the petrol would be accompanied by a lighted rag . ’ |
| 30 | It happened , however , that while I was at the College I had been approached by the Bristol University Board of Extra-Mural Studies , where a post was for the moment vacant organizing adult education work chiefly in Wiltshire . |