Sentence examples for while i am engaged from inspiring English sources

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".

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.

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.

As a generation I think we need to redefine what being present while also being engaged looks like.

For a while Bec is engaged to a right-wing lunatic named Val Oatman, who is the editor of a paper that Rupert Murdoch would be proud to publish.

"Last week, while I was otherwise engaged," she said, pausing as a knowing chuckle came forth from her audience.

Update: It turns out that I missed the background to this story while I was otherwise engaged (ie working on the paper).

Namdakov admits that he is proud of the sculpture, adding that it was a difficult process: Can you envision doing such a project in New York City? "I thought for a long time on the sculpture composition [for the London project] while I was not engaged in choosing the place for it.

And all the while, his descendants are engaged in a very public fight over Mr. Mandela's financial legacy.

During his student days he fell in love with his cousin, Theodora Cowper, and for a while the two were engaged.