Example sentences of "[verb] working at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He began by doing seasonal work which involved working at the maltings during the winter and working in a brickyard during the summer . |
| 2 | The bulbs in this unit actually stop working at the end of their useful lives which can be up to five years . |
| 3 | But the H S E says the cluster of leukaemia cases is confined mainly to the nearby village of Seascale and to children whose fathers began working at the plant before nineteen sixty five . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I know it sounds crackers but we preferred it , " said one of the pit brow lasses who started working at the pit when she was fourteen and finished when the women 's work was abolished after nationalisation . |
| 7 | She combines working at the branch with being a school governor and a member of the North Notts Training and Enterprise Council [ TEC ] Education Business Partnership . |
| 8 | Alice was standing working at the table , wearing her long fawn smock . |
| 9 | The second element was that I had just started working at the London School of Economics in October 1970 , which was exactly the same time as GLF started meeting there and LSE was in one of its periods of turmoil which involved me as someone working on the staff and excited me politically . |
| 10 | Older women were least likely to be eligible because they had started working at the factory when the married women 's option ( i.e. to pay reduced NI contributions ) was in full operation and the majority had not considered it financially worthwhile to pay full contributions . |
| 11 | They say they may have to stop working at the hospital and it ca n't survive without them . |
| 12 | My only pen had stopped working at the start of the walk ; in the rain my watch face went blank . |
| 13 | The second stage involves working at the library shelves . |