Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] work at the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | M.E. Railton , Harcourt Street , Hopetown , Darlington : I was working at the Broadway Cafe in Darlington when one of the customers came in and said the King had died . |
2 | I have , I did have experience with cheques and credit cards , but that was when I was working at the chemist , but now we do n't take cheques . |
3 | till we got to near the den and do that and we spent er a year and a half there and all the time we were watching this house being built , because I was working at the Corporation and the number of people of the Corporation from the tea boy cadet down came up to see this , this and that , was nobody 's business , mm , without , we enjoyed it , it was quite funny really it is |
4 | ‘ I was working at the store and I was pretty much going nowhere , from eleven to fifteen . |
5 | Well I became aware of the University of Sussex when the Gardener Centre first opened I think , because at that time I was working at the Arts Council of Great Britain and it was erm an innovative scheme which attracted a great deal of national interest , and we were naturally invited down to have a look at it , both the design and the programme that was being planned for the opening season at that time . |
6 | I had recently been working on Orwell 's radio scripts in the BBC 's Written Archive Centre at Caversham , one of the most important archives for modern British history outside the Public Record Office , and here in this room in Sackville Street were books written by all the authors and broadcasters I had grown familiar with , who were working at the time George Orwell was broadcasting and before . |
7 | Most of the survivors were ones who were working at the time . |
8 | And you were working at the ski-shop in order to keep body and soul together ? ’ |
9 | 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 . |
10 | She was working at the Body Shop part-time , she 's back there three days working now or something . |
11 | In the middle and upper classes at least , children stayed " children " for longer ( it was harder for a child to remain so when it was working at the age of 12 or 13 ) ; girls and young women were more shielded from experience outside the home ; parents were , on the whole , stricter and more repressive . |
12 | In 1911 , when he was working at the Rockefeller Institute in New York , he described the transmission of a malignant new growth by means of a cell-free filtrate . |
13 | CD regarded as his ‘ masterpiece ’ the Transfiguration , the great altar-piece on which he was working at the time of his death ; but found his Incendo del Borgo , one of the frescos ( designed by Raphael but painted by collaborators ) in the Stanze of the Vatican , an ‘ incredible caricature ’ . |
14 | There 'll be twenty people at least who could swear he was working at the time . |
15 | And in the week , I do n't think he was working at the time , but on a Sunday morning he 'd walk out of that terrace house and er he 'd be immaculate , absolutely . |