Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] work [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ I was working in the BBC pensions department and had short-lived aspirations of getting into TV . |
| 2 | ‘ Capron said he knew you were working on the Mills case and that we must have discussed it together . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She explained to Farmer Plant how she used the outjutting twin branches of the tree as her pony , as she had n't a real one to ride , and how she was working for the Pony Rider badge . |
| 5 | One lady who was working in the Smithy and had recently been directed to Wolverton , kept pestering him for one , and at times was quite verbal about it . |
| 6 | While he was working for the K.K.K. , he sent the pips to frighten those three men . |
| 7 | ‘ All he told me was that he was working for the Sovbloc desk at Six , and they were looking for a deserter , but he did n't even have Blagg 's name . |
| 8 | Mills was probably murdered because he was working for the KGB . |
| 9 | Michel Laclotte came at the time he was working on the Musée D'Orsay . |
| 10 | He was working on the Saturday and took a stroke on the Sunday . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |