Example sentences of "i was work [prep] the [noun sg] " 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 | Whilst I was working for the council , someone came to ask and we had some new o new officer appointed and he was very worried about getting ca er p permission from the council to launch a sewer scheme that was going to cost a quarter of a million pounds , a very large amount in those days . |
| 6 | I was working for the company er , in Leicester , called making cotton lisles for twelve years , fifteen years ago . |
| 7 | At that time I was working for the LNER on the Tyneside electrified lines , and had had a gentle hint from my then boss that he would like to know what Mr Rostron was up to . |
| 8 | which had been occupied by soldiers , this was our first hut , well by then I was working for the Corporation and of course by virtue of my job with the chief architect I got this house and we were offered this house about two years later for two thousand pounds and we said oh we would n't be staying here for more than ten years in any case and we would n't be bothered to buy it , but then my husband started in business you see soon after he came back and we eventually got the shop and , of course it 's very convenient because we 're only a stone 's throw from the shop you see , so we stayed here |
| 9 | All this time I was working on the hero 's book . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 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 had met Richard when he came into the estate agent 's where I was working during the university vacation . |
| 14 | I 'd been to thirteen convents but I had n't really been to school properly because I was working by the time I was thirteen . |
| 15 | I was working in the middle of the coffee region and so the Supplies Team was also in charge of the coffee plantations , Normally it was the women who did the harvesting , working some four hours a day . |
| 16 | Well I was working in the quarry , and er it 's last March turned round and said he wanted a new implemented with a new miracle saw that he had bought and he did n't really give us much warning about what he was gon na do but all he said was that er he was gon na scrap our old bonus contract and implement a new one no matter what , and from various figures that were bandied about we all realized we were gon na back quite a lot worse off because of it . |
| 17 | ‘ I was working in the shop one day in 1979 when Ted Perry came in and announced ‘ I 'm starting a new label ’ . |
| 18 | I was working in the Casting Shop . |
| 19 | ‘ I was working in the garden with Dickon . ’ |
| 20 | I even met one in the walnut tree when I was working in the garden one night . |
| 21 | I was working in the bank , trying to close the accounts for the day , when the first bomb fell . |