Example sentences of "while [pers pn] was working [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The first time I met her , while I was working for him , I think she knew that I had fallen in love with him and yet she was kinder to me than anyone I 've ever known . |
| 2 | ‘ I started from the bottom — a poor family , elementary school , then night school while I was working as a clerk . |
| 3 | He was practically running the department while I was working on the store for him , and he 's ready for further things than that , |
| 4 | ‘ I had some time off while I was working in Los Angeles and I was down by the hotel pool . |
| 5 | there 's no slow start on the reverse I got it while I was working in Leicestershire so I could n't really take it back it 'll cost me more in petrol |
| 6 | During her first , testing week , Shelley noticed that Dr Rafaelo often turned up while she was working during her morning clinics . |
| 7 | A Level while she was working during the day |
| 8 | Elaine Dulston , 33 , of Balmoral Road , Darlington , who claimed benefit while she was working as a shop assistant was yesterday ordered by Darlington magistrates to pay £891 compensation to the DSS . |
| 9 | For while she was working on the Channel Four movie , Rubber Stamp , it was revealed that her sideline was staging sex shows . |
| 10 | I supervised her professional training while she was working at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute at Penicuik , and appointed her as an Assistant Librarian at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh just over a year ago . |
| 11 | Colin Mackie , 26 , a self-confessed former heroin addict , told the court that Murray had injected him with heroin during drug-taking sessions while he was working as a tyre fitter with Kenway . |
| 12 | Perhaps some ghastly medical error committed by Latimer while he was working with Wetherby . |
| 13 | The slim volume was unearthedby Desmond Hawkins , a Hardy scholar , while he was working on a biography of his hero . |
| 14 | Quite by chance , and while he was working on a different problem , an Australian psychiatrist , J. F. Cade , discovered that , in guinea pigs , lithium salts made the brain less excitable . |
| 15 | He did n't know Jack Stone was back until he spotted him , probably while he was working on his allotment . |
| 16 | Even while he was working on the first draft of the poem , he was writing to Martin Browne about all the engagements ahead . |
| 17 | Even a cursory glance is enough to show that Picasso had several changes of mind while he was working on the canvas . |
| 18 | These abrupt changes of style in the Demoiselles are due to the fact that while he was working on it Picasso came into contact with tribal art . |
| 19 | And the visual evidence all goes to prove that this took place while he was working on the Demoiselles , probably in June . |
| 20 | Dublin-born textual scholar Danis Rose discovered James Joyce 's ‘ lost novel ’ while he was working on a critical edition of Finnegans Wake . |
| 21 | The animal had been in the garage while he was working on the car with the engine running . |
| 22 | In fact the script , which saw American lawyer Thomas Ward cleared of the charge of stealing £5.2 million from Guinness while he was working on the brewing giant 's takeover of Distillers Group , did little more than tie up the loose ends of the storyline . |
| 23 | While he was working for insurance brokers Alexander Howden ( running its 350-strong management services company , which is responsible for everything from staff canteen to computers and the chairman 's Rolls-Royce ) he decided he ‘ wanted to run a company from A-Z . |
| 24 | While he was working for the K.K.K. , he sent the pips to frighten those three men . |
| 25 | The accident happened while he was working at an extension to a silo . |
| 26 | Written by Richards while he was working in Cairo shortly after the Second World War , these sentences form one of the most delightful , and distinctive , opening passages to any book published this century . |