Example sentences of "they [was/were] work [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first real headhunting firms — in the first phase of headhunting — insisted that they were working for the company , not the candidate , and the company was paying the bill . |
| 2 | They added that they were working for the government undercover and that they had enough evidence to ‘ make the charge stick ’ . |
| 3 | Since on that occasion they were working with the approval of Fredegund they are likely to have been opposed to Brunhild . |
| 4 | ‘ They were working on a weld when there was a leak . |
| 5 | They were working on a suggestion , made by George Gamow ( once a student of Alexander Friedmann ) , that the early universe should have been very hot and dense , glowing white hot . |
| 6 | THE United Nations said that 20 Brazilian and 50 Russian workers had been kidnapped by opposition soldiers in eastern Angola , where they were working on a Congo River dam project . |
| 7 | When we brought this to Lowe 's attention they said they were working on the problem . |
| 8 | At least they were working on the complex that day , at least the civilian contractors had been able to bribe their private work force to cross the picket lines . |
| 9 | The DIY was given a lower priority from then on but , even when they were working on the house , the mood changed enormously . |
| 10 | They were working through the buildings quickly and , as far as he could tell , efficiently . |
| 11 | Secondly we were erm concerned that the county had not erm thought properly about employment densities , erm they have backed away from using employment density today as a significant calculator , but I hope you 've noticed sir that the erm the county 's mind set on employment densities is that whereas in the last structure plan they were working off a density , average density of thirty four workers for hectare . |
| 12 | The firemen who came to put out the fire had a narrow escape when the roof fell in as they were working inside the building . |
| 13 | They were working in a sewer at Baughton near Upton on Severn in Worcestershire when they were engulfed by a wall of water . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They was working in the fields . |