Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] work [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I was working on the gardens and we had to sweep all the grounds . |
| 3 | I chose to go to Worlingworth primary school , I was working with the infants , generally I was a classroom helper . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Save the Children Fund , which was working in the camps , made a report which exposed the scandal of the Ethiopian camps . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The men and boys who were working around the stables looked across curiously to see the strangers . |
| 8 | Ghozali , in announcing his resignation on July 8 , had spoken of " forces who were working behind the scenes … stemming from positions which they had won inside sectors of the administration , economy , enterprise , the mass media and politics " . |
| 9 | Was it very hot if you were working in the ovens there ? |
| 10 | She was to work in the kitchens . |
| 11 | At Cornforth Lane School , Coxhoe , the children sang the 23rd psalm when the news was broken , says H. Ellerby , who was working in the kitchens at the school . |
| 12 | They were working through the buildings quickly and , as far as he could tell , efficiently . |
| 13 | They was working in the fields . |
| 14 | Yet he realised how important it was to work with the Russians and he had no intention of disrupting the wartime alliance . |
| 15 | It was a straw bonnet , biscuit-coloured and it was worked round the edges with red ; I suppose it was thin cord ; but it had red round it and red on the top . |
| 16 | It was his first London teaching job and he was working in the Humanities department : ‘ It was right in the beginning I suppose and there was about two months before I actually started . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ He was working in the gardens at the château when I was staying in France , and I discovered he was English . |
| 18 | He was working in the parks just now so he was back in , and apparently he 'd had to go round and baby-sit for them the night before . |