Example sentences of "[pron] [be] work [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the moment he and I are working on a scheme which could wreck this political organisation for good . |
| 2 | At the moment , I am working on a novel and the kitchen table has on it only the ancient German electric typewriter which I use to type out the second draft of what I have already written by hand . |
| 3 | I still add to subjects that are particularly in my line — playground games like marbles , tops and balls — as at the moment I am working on a book about children 's play . |
| 4 | In an attempt to sharpen up the spongy brakes on my IIa , I am working on a process of elimination and the next venture was going to be flushing the system and changing the fluid . |
| 5 | I am working on a replacement for him as it does not look as though he will be available until June . ’ |
| 6 | I 'm working with a company , in fact we manufacture Strepsils . |
| 7 | In my own drama teaching I rarely use games with a class that I know well , but when I 'm working with a class that I 've not met before I often begin the session with a short concentration exercise and then a simple game . |
| 8 | In fact , I 'm working on a tuck patterned suit for myself right now . |
| 9 | I 'm working on a scheme . |
| 10 | I 'm working on a program for Adam . |
| 11 | ‘ No , I 'm working at a caff in Harwich . ’ |
| 12 | erm where I am assertive it 's where I 'm working to a rule book I know those rules backwards and I want somebody to follow those to the letter |
| 13 | I 'm working in a counting-house just now . |
| 14 | I need to earn X amount , and I 'm working in a town where I do n't know anybody . |
| 15 | When I was working at a hospice I followed up bereaved people who it was felt might need some support . |
| 16 | When I was working at a Polytechnic , we were once required to submit the areas of current research interest for storage on central records . |
| 17 | I was working at a hospital in the out-patients ' department recently and when I was leaving at the end of my shift one day , I saw the following message pinned on the notice board , obviously from an extremely irate patient : ‘ Time is a great healer . |
| 18 | IN 1989 I was working for a community video project called Women 's Media Resources . |
| 19 | I was working for a yarn firm who had just gone into the marketing of coned yarns — unfortunately they did not stay the course . |
| 20 | A large sketchbook especially put aside for this project allowed me to work freely , and clear my head of the fact that I was working to a commission . |
| 21 | Colette and Bernard self-published works about matters holistic and mystical , and Ken relaxed when I told him I was working on a thriller . |
| 22 | ‘ A smalltime crook who got caught in the crossfire when I was working on a story a couple of years ago . |
| 23 | I was working on a street theatre mission in Bristol when the call came , getting in at 1.00 am after doing gospel presentations in the clubs and discotheques at night . |
| 24 | Bang a drum and it answers back , so I was working on a street market at the time and I went and bought a drum and started to learn . |
| 25 | I began to learn something myself when I was working with a group of homeless people trying to Get Something Done . |
| 26 | I was working with a guy who came from Manchester . |
| 27 | The war was over , I had a steady boyfriend who was n't likely to be shot down over the Ruhr , and I was working with a bunch of very congenial people . |
| 28 | A S. I remember when I was working as a dogsbody in the 59 Theatre Company in Manchester a group of Central School students came to be the spirits in a production of The Tempest and these were Pisk trained and had , it seemed to me then , a marvellous range of body language . |
| 29 | ‘ I started from the bottom — a poor family , elementary school , then night school while I was working as a clerk . |
| 30 | Yes , that was some time ago when I was working as a hostess with the British Council and used to collect meet VIPs at the station and bring them here to the university . |