Example sentences of "while at [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In public , people tried to carry on with their lives , while at home they were starting to prepare for what was to come . |
| 2 | The human losses mounted rapidly , and the extension of recruitment to those just eighteen years old and those already forty-five extended the worries about loved ones at the Front into almost every family , while at home their losses to farming and industry had to be made good , as far as possible , with more prisoners-of-war and ‘ foreign workers ’ . |
| 3 | In foreign affairs , his first priority was to end the Vietnam War , while at home he made a frank appeal to what came to be called " middle america " : the " good , decent , tax-paying , law-abiding people , the forgotten Americans " . |
| 4 | It was absurd that Norman Ward Westerman and Lord Boddy should listen with real deference to his views on Halifax , while at home he could n't even get a hearing from his own wife . |
| 5 | He continued his education at the Shrewsbury Technical School until 1911 , while at home he emerged as a votary of John Keats [ q.v. ] and a model of Christian piety . |
| 6 | In sport , India will play England in a one-day cricket international in Bangalore on Friday , while at home there are important Scottish Premier League matches involving clubs at the top and bottom of the league . |
| 7 | In Herefordshire he was a JP and several times a commissioner to investigate disturbances , while at court he was entrusted , among other responsibilities , with a number of diplomatic missions . |
| 8 | Once while at University he was bored with a rugby injury so he borrowed a comrade 's marathon number from an injured friend and completed the 90km race in 8–1/2 hours . |
| 9 | The duties which fell to Worthington Evans at Westminster became Bill O'Farrell 's responsibility in Warwickshire , while at Brighton he could always rely upon Leroy Burns . |
| 10 | While at work he is still aware of the extent to which mechanization has improved his working conditions , and his relationship with his employer generally remains a good one . |
| 11 | The plaintiff went to work in a new job after the accident and while at work he was shot in the left leg during an armed robbery . |
| 12 | While at Oxford he taught at a Sunday school in Cowley and a night school at St Frideswide 's church . |
| 13 | While at Oxford he began to draw up a catalogue of the fifteenth-century books in the Bodleian Library . |
| 14 | Very occasionally he also made designs to be carried out by others — and if acting in an architect 's supervisory capacity only he would charge the 5 per cent fee which was normal at the time — while at Ditchley he was , remarkably , employed as both ‘ surveyor ’ , receiving his 5 per cent , and mason contractor . |
| 15 | At many branch points there may be just two new tracks , while at others there may be more . |
| 16 | But if we travel the northern route we probably wo n't see the sun for weeks , and the daylight is grey and the sea is green and grey , while at night you just see the cold white wavetops hissing out of blackness . |
| 17 | While at Edwards she was flown in tests designed to evaluate the potential of jets as drone aircraft and as such ‘ 633 was called the Reluctant Robot . |
| 18 | The price at Yanbu' was $17.30 per bbl , while at Ceyhan it was $17.50 as against the Turkish line 's normal feed , Kirkuk , at $17.60 . |
| 19 | His unpublished contributions to the Leipzig Classical Society included scholarly studies in other Greek fields , such as the Aristotelian corpus , while at Leipzig he also worked extensively on the philosopher Democritus . |
| 20 | While at Laeken he had seen miners , strange grisly beings to him . |
| 21 | While at Cambridge he worked on the problem of the stability of Saturn 's rings . |
| 22 | While at Environment he was burned in effigy by the people of Foxley Wood for approving a major housing development . |
| 23 | While at Trelawne he was known as a jovial fellow who drank more wine than was customary among the clergy , but was not without a vicious temper and a rough tongue . |