Example sentences of "he [be] work on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is working on the making of a crystal-wireless set ; he is one of the first men in Scotland to produce one at home . |
| 2 | Hard as he is working on the switch , it may be that Bayfield is being groomed in the rigours of international rugby so as to be better able to step into Dooley 's shoes when he finally retires , probably at the end of this season . |
| 3 | He 's worked on the site for 46 years and he knows what a heritage museum would mean to the town . |
| 4 | skipped half the stages or you know how do you feel when he 's working on the board and he skips several lines ? |
| 5 | Well , he 's working on the canal now , going 'twixt Bingley and Liverpool , carrying cloth . |
| 6 | There is no doubt that in The Family Reunion he was attempting that re-integration of religious and secular drama which he discussed at the time he was working on the play . |
| 7 | In fact the script , which saw American lawyer Thomas Ward cleared of the charge of stealing £5.2 million from Guinness while he was working on the brewing giant 's takeover of Distillers Group , did little more than tie up the loose ends of the storyline . |
| 8 | Partly Byzantine and partly Romanesque , it was altered in the Gothic period by Arnolfo di Cambio when he was working on the cathedral . |
| 9 | Michel Laclotte came at the time he was working on the Musée D'Orsay . |
| 10 | Even a cursory glance is enough to show that Picasso had several changes of mind while he was working on the canvas . |
| 11 | Perhaps he was working on the island again . |
| 12 | But he mentioned in an essay the degree to which certain forms of anaemia were conducive to such creation ; and , in our conversation that day , he described how , when he was working on The Waste Land in Switzerland in 1921 ( ‘ by the waters of Leman ’ ) , he felt at one moment that his brain was going to burst . |
| 13 | He was working on the Saturday and took a stroke on the Sunday . ’ |
| 14 | The animal had been in the garage while he was working on the car with the engine running . |
| 15 | Washington has expressed its willingness to change the venue for the summit from Vancouver to Moscow if the Russian side makes such a request , but Mr Clinton said he was working on the assumption that it would take place in Canada as planned . |
| 16 | He was part of a delegation that went to the BBC to complain about proposed cuts to the Third Programme , the " cultural " channel of the broadcasting service ; he was working on the Commission for the Revised Psalter ; he was asked to give evidence to the Parliamentary Commission on Obscene Publications ( he had had very little experience of pornographic literature , he told the members of that commission , and his own work was " quite anodyne " ) . |
| 17 | He was working on the restoration of St. John 's Cross in the Infirmary . |