Sentence examples for while I was engaged from inspiring English sources

TWO HUNDRED AND FIVE DOLLARS REWARD At the great base ball match on Tuesday, while I was engaged in hurrahing, a small boy walked off with an English-made brown silk UMBRELLA belonging to me, and forgot to bring it back.

I felt singled-out, as if they'd been working hard their whole lives while I was engaged in things of folly, a belle epoque pastime that disqualified me from the grown-up "So, what do you do?" conversation.

He recorded in his journal: "It is a singular circumstance that, while I am engaged in preparing for the press the letters of General Washington which he wrote at Cambridge after taking command of the American army, I should occupy the same rooms that he did at that time".

Godley's rank of lieutenant general was made substantive in September 1916 and he continued to lead the II ANZAC Corps while the I ANZAC Corps was engaged in the Battle of the Somme.

"He just exited the door while she was engaged in conversation".

Impatient for power, however, Salīm revolted in 1599 while Akbar was engaged in the Deccan.

It was composed in 1898-99, while Vierne was engaged to a young singer, a time of rare happiness (although the marriage didn't last).

The WICB, he said, was the "most unprofessional" in the world, while Cameron was engaged in a "personal war" with his own players.

Ms. Xie said that she became pregnant while she was engaged, but that her fiancé's ambivalence over the unexpected news prompted her to set her own course.

That auction included two black plumed hats that Kate Middleton had rented to wear to events while she was engaged to Prince William.

While he was engaged in this work he met the engineer for the road, Thomas Telford.