Example sentences of "was work [prep] the [noun] [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 | 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 . |
| 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 | Well I became aware of the University of Sussex when the Gardener Centre first opened I think , because at that time I was working at the Arts Council of Great Britain and it was erm an innovative scheme which attracted a great deal of national interest , and we were naturally invited down to have a look at it , both the design and the programme that was being planned for the opening season at that time . |
| 5 | She was working at the Body Shop part-time , she 's back there three days working now or something . |
| 6 | The incident happened in February last year , while Frak was working at the Ashbury Lodge Nursing Home in Marlborough Road in Swindon . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | I came down when my husband was working on the factory site then as I say , prior to us coming to live here this was had n't been even built so we 've seen it grow from the floor to what it is today , you know ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | My one success is with Michael Treacher , who Killick said was working on the comparability report with Summerchild . |
| 12 | I had met Richard when he came into the estate agent 's where I was working during the university vacation . |
| 13 | But Mrs Green had begun a ‘ passionate affair ’ and Green was attracted to Julie Warburton , 20 , a university law student who was working during the summer vacation at the Crown Prosecution Service branch at Salford where Green worked . |
| 14 | The Faithful was working off the Yorkshire coast last November when it was in a collision with a Bridlington trawler and almost sunk . |
| 15 | James had studied law at university but now was working in the personnel department of Cadbury 's . |
| 16 | At the same time the Unwanted Gifts team was working in the Undercroft cupboard . |
| 17 | It was his first London teaching job and he was working in the Humanities department : ‘ It was right in the beginning I suppose and there was about two months before I actually started . ’ |
| 18 | I was working in the Casting Shop . |
| 19 | Er , Sir , she was working in the care sector as a residential home manager . |
| 20 | Local radio sports editor , Tony Delahunty , microphone in hand , was working in the commentary box , which was located in the main stand , offering live reports to regional stations , servicing the needs of local radio . |