Example sentences of "[pers pn] was at work " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They 've also managed to get into my house while I was at work . |
| 2 | Mrs Glews : Well I was at work at Grainger and Smith 's offices . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | Well I know that if I was at work . |
| 7 | Well you must have been going during the day while I was at work then . |
| 8 | I 'm not because I was at work last week and they got |
| 9 | This was what she had achieved , and indeed in the 1950s when she was at work it was an enviable position for a woman . |
| 10 | She came from a large family , and it must be supposed that her mother or one of her sisters helped to care for the children while she was at work . |
| 11 | She made her own chutney , and made her own pickles , even though she was at work . |
| 12 | She also agreed to tell him each evening about the sort of day she had had while he was at work . |
| 13 | The following November another officer entered his studio while he was at work on the massive Crucifixion and said , ‘ Sir , I have an execution against you . ’ |
| 14 | An ex-BR civil engineer Glenn , 53 , of Windmill Fields , Coggeshall , had a heart attack in July 1989 while he was at work at Stratford . |
| 15 | For Martin 's goblin never let him rest unless he was at work fetching honey , or setting up more hives , or buying and selling , making himself richer and richer . |
| 16 | His first book , containing two stories , ‘ Odette D'Antrevernes ’ and ‘ A Study in Temperament ’ , was published in 1905 ; and in the following summer he was at work on his first novel The Artificial Princess ( published posthumously in 1934 ) : in it he devised the techniques of elliptical narrative and baroque construction , and the manner , at once satirical and lyric , concentrated and fragmentary , that were to characterize his mature work . |
| 17 | It was possible that he had forgotten to switch it off last night or that he was at work early , but it was also possible that there had been an intruder . |
| 18 | ‘ McAllister ? ’ he said , looking up , surprised , to impress on her that maid servants , even American ones , were not supposed to quiz the Master when he was at work — should not even originate a conversation with him . |
| 19 | After bloody , he was at work on Saturday morning ! |
| 20 | When he was at work . |
| 21 | er and keep her company cos he was at work and the kids were in bed , and she says I went over and sat with her and had a cup of coffee and a smoke and I sat with her , you know , till she was ready for bed . |
| 22 | He used , he used to bring a gar he was at work everyday , little bugger and you know |