Example sentences of "[pron] be at work " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , if the patient says ‘ I can not possibly measure my own blood glucose because I am at work all day ’ , the patient might be lost if the doctor were to insist . |
| 2 | ‘ I am a different person when I am at work on the Geest or on the heath or in the dunes . |
| 3 | I 've met her twice on formal occasions , but I am at work all day , so I do n't often see my neighbours . |
| 4 | I am at work but I 'll be back later tonight so your dinner is in the fridge . |
| 5 | Julie , who 's 26 , says , ‘ I keep it in my bag when I 'm at work , and often place it by my bed at night . ’ |
| 6 | But I 'm at work and I 'm thinking ‘ I 've got to get back ’ . |
| 7 | I 'm at work . |
| 8 | ‘ That 's because I 'm at work , ’ Loretta said shortly . |
| 9 | That 's when I 'm at work or at home — sometimes I use it at home , not often . |
| 10 | you 're responsible for mine and if I 'm at work I 'm responsible for yours , I wrote to the D H S S |
| 11 | I 'm at work . |
| 12 | Yeah usually if there 's no stamp wanted I get one of lasses while I 'm at work , they 'll drop it off for me . |
| 13 | I 'm at work erm well |
| 14 | ‘ They 've also managed to get into my house while I was at work . |
| 15 | Mrs Glews : Well I was at work at Grainger and Smith 's offices . |
| 16 | He looked after Lucy during the day while I was at work , but I found out afterwards that he used to leave her a lot with my friends upstairs . |
| 17 | I have n't actually seen Charley since his return , as he called on Hamish while I was at work , but at lunchtime today I conveyed your presents for Christopher and Lydie to Jenners Rose Street restaurant and placed them in Inga 's hands ( a handy reminder to me of their birthdays , too ) . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've told you ; I knew nothing about what had happened until I was at work next morning and one of your policemen came with the news . ’ |
| 19 | Well I know that if I was at work . |
| 20 | Well you must have been going during the day while I was at work then . |
| 21 | I 'm not because I was at work last week and they got |
| 22 | Neither does one have to invoke Marxism to take history seriously and to try to understand the various forces which are at work and the way in which certain classes , institutions and pressure groups have used power to maintain inequality . |
| 23 | Thirdly , there is a need for better appreciation of the complex dynamics which are at work in small task-focused groups , such as those which come together for case conferences , especially when anxiety about an individual old person is running high . |
| 24 | He had only gone out socially with his secretary for after-work drinks and may then have only been less formal than if her were at work . ’ |
| 25 | To him who is able to do infinitely more abundantly above all that we ask or think in accordance with the power which is at work within us . |
| 26 | Marx recognised as much when he interposed the " period of manufacture " between that of guild manufacture and that of " machino-facture " : " Inasmuch as handicraft skill formed the basis of manufacture and inasmuch as the integral mechanism which was at work in manufacture had no objective skeleton existing apart from the workers themselves , capital had continually to wrestle with the subordination of the workers . " |
| 27 | These events , they argued , demonstrated that the hand of God himself was at work in the history with which the Bible deals , and so served to authenticate the Bible 's own divine origins . |
| 28 | Now with people who are at work , who are erm , working with their hobby , or a job , it 's always important that it 's clear what 's going on . |
| 29 | So this , with some restrictions , confines the membership of the committee to people who are at work . |
| 30 | ‘ Have you been at work this morning ? ’ |