Example sentences of "[vb past] working " in BNC.
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| 1 | In European countries the mains supply voltage may fluctuate considerably , often being above any rated working voltage of the CL power pack , so that actual beam voltages may be appreciably higher than those set on the instrument panel . |
| 2 | ‘ It was during the post-punk kind of period and I went through a series of bands , but I must admit I found working for other people really difficult . |
| 3 | The three-year research project funded by the English National Board to look at the learning experiences in the community found working with students was ‘ time consuming ’ and ‘ slowed down the work of the nurse ’ . |
| 4 | Lynda found working with Laura a great stimulant ; ‘ She never stopped thinking of the company and would often spot something in a book that attracted her ; she would know instantly how it could be adapted . |
| 5 | For Laura , work had now become an end in itself ; although some of her colleagues began to describe her as a workaholic it was more that she found working a pleasurable state . |
| 6 | He found working for the Maharajah so enjoyable that he refused to accept one penny in payment for his 18 years ' service , although the Maharajah supplied all his material needs . |
| 7 | She made several ‘ women 's ’ films for Rank , including STREET CORNER ( 1953 ) about the women police in Chelsea , which she always cited as a particularly enjoyable experience since it involved working with a mainly female crew and cast . |
| 8 | None of this was available to the hard-pressed scholarly hacks in Gissing 's new Grub Street , or to the real-life Francis Thompson , keeping himself just alive by high-quality literary journalism , which involved working for twelve hours every day and taking no holidays . |
| 9 | Any medical personnel found to have the virus were immediately banned from performing surgery which involved working inside the body , said the spokesman . |
| 10 | The first part involved full time study for six months , from January to June , and the second part , which finished in November , involved working on a supervised project . |
| 11 | The method was ethnographic and participatory and involved working with a software development team , and research programmers . |
| 12 | Adopting a laissez faire economic approach which involved working closely with entrepreneurs , the group had transformed the ALP into the natural party of government at state and federal level throughout most of the 1980s . |
| 13 | He began by doing seasonal work which involved working at the maltings during the winter and working in a brickyard during the summer . |
| 14 | Sheila Danby spent most of her working life in education , latterly in adult literacy as part of Operation Upgrade which involved working in Soweto . |
| 15 | I only stopped working frenziedly hour after hour after I met the English boy I 'd just thrown water over moments before . |
| 16 | The first photoelectrochemical cells also had low efficiencies and stopped working after a few hours — this time due to light-induced erosion of the semiconducting electrode . |
| 17 | The mill was originally powered by an overshot water wheel , turned by the waters of the Blackpool Brook ( as was Lower Mill ) ; it stopped working around 1898–99 . |
| 18 | Once the drip was up and the monitor was on I was much less mobile but as I gained confidence I learnt how to put the monitor back on if it stopped working when I moved . |
| 19 | On Wednesday 28 March , 1979 , 36 seconds after 040 hours , several water pumps stopped working in Unit 2 of the pressurised water ( PWR ) power station on Three Mile Island , 10 miles south east of Harrisburg , Pennsylvania . |
| 20 | At the same time the Granton sawmill stopped working . |
| 21 | I had a Lotus Mermaid 350 pond pump for 2½ years , and recently it stopped working . |
| 22 | He only stopped working when he ate or slept . |
| 23 | Last September he bought a camcorder which stopped working within six months . |
| 24 | That was graphically illustrated after the break when , with the excellent Paul Ince injured and Robson feeling his lack of match-practice , it indeed stopped working . |
| 25 | When Charlotte was born , Anna stopped working . |
| 26 | He did his preregistration year and a year of vocational training in general practice but then stopped working as a doctor until he opened an allergy clinic in 1982 . |
| 27 | The marriage stopped working because we stopped talking , and when things started going wrong , instead of addressing the issues head on , I began volunteer work for the Samaritans . |
| 28 | The oldest woman in the refuge had worked as a railway clerk , in a sausage factory , a pop factory and in a factory making bingo boards until she stopped working a few years earlier and was put on invalidity benefit . |
| 29 | I stopped working because I decided that the only way to make it was to go full time . |
| 30 | On the lighter side actually , my husband , and my sister-in- law and brother-in-law used to smoke , and I got very cute to this , because I sa , noticed that they stopped working every time they had cigarette |