Example sentences of "working at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can say without embarrassment that I have been training for this for a long time , that I have learned to breathe the rarefied air , that I now know when to stand still and when to move forward , when to attack and when to retreat , when to leave a problem to resolve itself and when to go on working at it till the solution emerges . |
| 2 | as if my whole life , he wrote , had been spent working at the glass and at the same time had been spent doing nothing at all . |
| 3 | It becomes clear after one has been working at something for several weeks , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that one is not going to achieve what one had hoped for . |
| 4 | He is currently working at the Three Lions restaurant , Stuckton , Dorset . |
| 5 | ‘ No , I 'm working at a caff in Harwich . ’ |
| 6 | Therefore , you should train to lift the level of aerobic endurance by selecting a training routine and working at it until your pulse rate is raised to the top of the aerobic band . |
| 7 | A paper recently published by Jacek Baranowski et al working at the University of California , Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory ( Phys Rev Lett , Vol 66 no 23 ) describes a new form of gallium arsenide that will superconduct at a temperature of 10K . |
| 8 | It is not as if Eurotunnel was working at the leading-edge of technological innovation . |
| 9 | Contrary to reports in Paris last week , government investigators working at the central police laboratory here have ruled out the presence of the Czechoslovak-made explosive Semtex , which caused the Lockerbie disaster . |
| 10 | There is now full time working at all the operational distilleries for the first time in eight years . |
| 11 | Lord Home belied his reputation for laziness — the commonly-held view of the elder statesman , as the British prototype for Ronald Reagan , did n't hold water : up and working at 6.30 every morning , even if he did spend uncommon amounts of time in trout streams . |
| 12 | They say the nature and demands of the job ‘ may necessitate you working at times other than your normal hours of the week ’ . |
| 13 | There are no photographs to illustrate this important victory achieved over five days — presumably because everyone was too busy working at staying alive to take pictures — but the Frank Wootton dust jacket is evocative . |
| 14 | Working at Whiteleys . |
| 15 | Tony had just returned from Iceland , his epic cycle tour , and I was back from Switzerland , buoyed up by time spent working at the Research Station on the Jungfraujoch . |
| 16 | In the city he is just another casual labourer working at the lowest level of urban employment . |
| 17 | On race day , after all-night working at the factory , a solitary car turned up and the stewards gave special permission for driver Raymond Sommer to do three exploratory laps . |
| 18 | He also imported cameramen , make-up staff and editors from Europe and America , so that those working at the studio could learn the more advanced techniques . |
| 19 | When the technical skills of the big-budge filmmakers were combined with the ideas of those working at a lower level , the result was the possibility of a thriving national cinema . |
| 20 | Families struggling on low incomes can get help from the scheme provided at least one adult is working at least 24 hours a week . |
| 21 | Families struggling on low incomes can get help from the scheme provided at least one adult is working at least 24 hours a week . |
| 22 | Most of the high technology services firms were working at the frontier of computer usage , developing new software packages or sophisticated interactive training models for business . |
| 23 | Families struggling on low incomes can get help from the scheme provided at least one adult is working at least 24 hours a week . |
| 24 | Hospitals are always working at near-capacity , so anything that upsets the balance automatically causes more strain . ’ |
| 25 | A male colleague of Perkins ' , working at the same grade , is also taking a day off a week to spend more time with his children and perhaps this is the most heartening news of all . |
| 26 | The son of a labourer from Grenada 's sister island of Carriacou , which he represented in parliament for nearly 30 years , he cut his political teeth , like many other Caribbean leaders , working at the giant Lago oil refinery on Dutch-ruled Aruba in the 1940s . |
| 27 | Unlike the singer-songwriter creed , attention is always drawn away from the song to the figure of the person working at it : there 's a flagrant exhibitionism that forces us into the role of voyeur . |
| 28 | He brought in Italian plasterers , who were working at Lumley Castle , to decorate his ceilings , and built a wide shallow staircase with elaborate Vanbrughian railings . |
| 29 | Cherry Vanilla was doing nothing — she was eating fruit and breaking out all the time as a result , Jane was doing nothing too — she 'd started a group called Queen Elizabeth which played little , low-life funky bars on the Lower Eastside , Tony Zanetta was working coding , which is a very ignominious job that out-of-work actors do in New York , and I was working at 16 Magazine as a tea boy . |
| 30 | But maybe your Ministerial colleague is n't going right for the very top , McLeish thought with unreasonable conviction , and you were going to stop her working at Yeo Davis when you could . |