Example sentences of "was work [prep] the [noun sg] [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 | She was working at the Body Shop part-time , she 's back there three days working now or something . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 ? |
5 | 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 . |
6 | My one success is with Michael Treacher , who Killick said was working on the comparability report with Summerchild . |
7 | I had met Richard when he came into the estate agent 's where I was working during the university vacation . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | At the same time the Unwanted Gifts team was working in the Undercroft cupboard . |
10 | I was working in the Casting Shop . |
11 | Er , Sir , she was working in the care sector as a residential home manager . |
12 | 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 . |