Example sentences of "[was/were] working in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were working in a flat below the old money-lender 's at the time of the murder , but not at the time of the ‘ rehearsal ’ three days earlier . |
| 2 | The projects were pitched at different levels , so that in the strictest sense the students were working in a parallel fashion . |
| 3 | He and William were working in a field covered with snow . |
| 4 | Metzinger and Delaunay had exhibited portraits of each other at the Salon d'Automne of 1906 , when both were working in a Neo-Impressionist idiom , and by 1907 Delaunay had met Léger and Le Fauconnier as well . |
| 5 | It was the deliberate disregard of the more sensuous and immediately appealing aspects of painting , and the temporary dismissal of all human and associational values , combined with the fact that they were working in a conceptual way , relying on memory as much as on visual models , that allowed the Cubists to distort and dislocate figures and objects to a degree hitherto unknown . |
| 6 | They were working in a foreign language with a teacher who was making far from usual demands . |
| 7 | Offices It works in this fashion : If you were working in a suite of offices , you might , if you were so inclined , have one office dedicated to word processing , one for drawing , another for accounting and so on . |
| 8 | They were working in a sewer at Baughton near Upton on Severn in Worcestershire when they were engulfed by a wall of water . |
| 9 | We try to see that conditions at work are such that if I , to make it personal , was working in a particular factory , I would find them as congenial as they could reasonably be . |
| 10 | In 1906 , a seventeen-year-old orphan called Jane Balfe was working in a factory . |
| 11 | He 'd been taken prisoner by the Japs , and had been shipped to Japan , and was working in a warehouse in the docks on the morning of 9 August , 1945 . |
| 12 | It should be said , of course , that in the 1920s Bukharin was working in a particularly rich culture for this type of intellectual endeavour . |
| 13 | He was working in a Chinese restaurant , he said . |
| 14 | But one of the happiest jobs I ever had was working in a place called Lonsdale Sports . |
| 15 | I was working in a factory mass producing men 's suits . |
| 16 | I was working in a heart clinic off Harley Street as a receptionist and delivery boy when I decided to join the French Foreign Legion . |
| 17 | Like their father , and Milly their help , who was working in a munitions factory , and Bongo their dog ( their mother had n't said what had happened to him ) she belonged somewhere else . |
| 18 | I was working in a car factory at the time . |
| 19 | Right , I was subject to a , an assault that was quite frightening erm in that I was working in a shop on my own and er someone came into the shop and locked the door behind me and tried er to pull me down towards the back of the shop and er apart from being very frightened I find it difficult to accept that I was just an innocent victim , I kept making excuses that this person who did it to me did n't mean to frighten me he , only could n't communicate that he , he , he said it eventually when I managed to fight him off he said , I just wanted to give you a kiss and er I find it very difficult and I had to be forced to go to the police erm to tell them about this because I thought you know its just a misunderstanding and , but it was terrifying |
| 20 | ‘ I just mean they 're not exactly the sort of people she 'd be rubbing shoulders with if she was working in a bank . |
| 21 | He was working in a thicket of briar , elder and dead wood from a fallen tree . |
| 22 | She was working in a hospital . ’ |
| 23 | That autumn , I was working in a vineyard in the Medoc , north of Bordeaux , and with time to spare when the vintage finished , I decided to visit Rennes-le-Chateau and see for myself what all the fuss was about . |
| 24 | Erm eventually er , one of my teachers in my school had migrated to this country and he was living in Southall at that time and he was working in a bakery . |
| 25 | He had a variety of unskilled jobs , and at the beginning of the 1880s , when he first became involved in radical politics , he was working in a wallpaper warehouse . |
| 26 | And I was working in a large warehouse , a three floor warehouse , a grocers , grocers . |
| 27 | Richard was not aware that he was no longer reasoning , hut allowing a series of overlapping images — the drawing of lord Jim , Tilda cooking — to act as a substitute for argument , so that his mind was working in a way not far different from Maurice 's , or Nenna 's . |
| 28 | Anyhow it was like the sea and boats and everything else and I used to I was working in a shop and I use to get up early in the morning and go down and tally all the numbers and names of the boats and and there was an old man came in to shop while I was working in and asked about a certain boat , I says oh I can tell you , trek down . |
| 29 | The personnel manager felt that if she was working in a establishment with a lower turn-over she would be more democratic because there would be more time . |
| 30 | ’ Last time I saw her she was working in a shop . ’ |