Example sentences of "[pron] [be] work on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am working on the contract for the rest of the Grapevine package and will be sending you ( and John Statham ? ) drafts for your consideration in the near future . |
| 2 | Having made the Hannover picture I thought it would be nice to have a smaller version , so I now have a two-metre square version on canvas , also painted with Scanachrome , and I am working on the area of the television screen in a more painterly manner than I was able to use on the large one . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm working on the principle that most people are okay unless they get muroculous with drink , when they become arse-holes ; you 're behaving like an arse-hole now , so maybe drink 'll make you okay . ’ |
| 4 | And erm the only other outstanding sponsor from last year was Northern Rock and that has been a bit of a qu a problem because er it 's , we have n't had a closing gala event which might attract them but just recently erm Paul who as you know performed last year with his band so er well er is , had rang me and said that they are doing something in Venice and they could in fact take the boat to Hull rather than to Dover and bring it here and I 'm , so I 'm working on the assumption that we might have that . |
| 5 | I 'm working on the premise we have no friends anywhere . |
| 6 | I 'm working on the production of a culture from placental tissue which can give reliable results in toxicity tests . |
| 7 | Well at the moment I 'm working on the mechanism action of vitamin B twelve dependent enzymes . |
| 8 | All this time I was working on the hero 's book . |
| 9 | I remember when I was working on the building sites in Manchester , the Irish lads called onions " navvies ' apples " and some of them would peel them and eat them whole like fruit . |
| 10 | I was working on the gardens and we had to sweep all the grounds . |
| 11 | I was working on the safe . |
| 12 | He was practically running the department while I was working on the store for him , and he 's ready for further things than that , |
| 13 | I try to work against the way I was taught , which was to work on the paintings as a whole and bring things up to a certain degree of finish . |
| 14 | I TRY TO WORK AGAINST THE WAY I WAS TAUGHT , WHICH WAS TO WORK ON THE PAINTING AS A WHOLE AND BRING THINGS UP TO A CERTAIN DEGREE OF FINISH |
| 15 | They also come into the works voluntarily on Sunday mornings to assist the ERPS team who are working on the locomotive . |
| 16 | If you are working on the RM Nimbus network WAIT for the Command Menu to reappear and then : |
| 17 | Unless you are working on the switchboard or reception , you should also state your name . |
| 18 | If you are working on the floor , sit cross-legged if possible or kneel on a mat . |
| 19 | Always a big help when you 're working on the Continent . ’ |
| 20 | Shortly after the IDA applied for planning permission , 46 workers representing eight trade unions who were working on the construction of the Raybestos factory issued a statement : |
| 21 | These problems were not strange to the Prague School , who were working on the semiotics of art about twenty years before Barthes . |
| 22 | A group of geophysicists who were working on the rocks of the floor of the north-east Pacific had discovered , before Hess 's suggestion was published , that instead of a random pattern of reversals , such as were common on land , the oceanic crust in the Pacific exhibited a pattern of ‘ strip reversals ’ ; the rocks in each strip were magnetized in one fixed direction , but the rocks in alternate , parallel strips were magnetized in the reverse direction . |
| 23 | ‘ Capron said he knew you were working on the Mills case and that we must have discussed it together . ’ |
| 24 | Piers Morrison , the man who 's working on the house , will be there as well . ’ |
| 25 | For while she was working on the Channel Four movie , Rubber Stamp , it was revealed that her sideline was staging sex shows . |
| 26 | ‘ But we are working on the idea of a monthly publication , probably starting in May , to act as a kind of bulletin to keep supporters in touch with what is happening , ’ he said . |
| 27 | A spokesman said : ‘ We are working on the theory the motive was robbery or sex or both . |
| 28 | We are working on the basis of defence policy arranged by the Treasury in which case there must be a whole-hearted defence review . |
| 29 | So we 're working on the principal that even if the person does wake up in the operation they 're s not going to sue you cos they ca n't feel anything in the area you 're operating in . |
| 30 | ‘ We ca n't fix a definite time of death until after the post mortem , but we 're working on the assumption that it was shortly after the time agreed for the rendezvous — midnight . |