Example sentences of "[conj] working at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 However , the burgeoning folk revival of the 50s and 60s offered her a welcome release , and eventually she won a respected place in the circuit of folk festivals and folksong clubs , singing material not only from her mother 's repertoire but also from a personal ‘ collection ’ gathered when hawking , or working at the tatties .
2 To be fair to be fair to him I think that he would erm he 's set his heart on going and working at the lawn mower place on the production line
3 She was n't at all sure she wanted to be shown this short-cut through the woods , although Isabelle must have used it many times , when she was living at Les Hiboux and working at the château .
4 And working at the Shakespeare School of English does n't exactly hinder me in that direction .
5 So I was still in Berry then and working at the grammar school , so we had to walk across all three causeways for some time .
6 While working at the cinema , for instance , he tried to repair a cistern and ended up flooding the place .
7 Gombrich sombrely recalled hearing about Auschwitz while working at the BBC Monitoring Service during the war : ‘ They claimed at that time — I remember that as if it were yesterday — they claimed that at least five million people had been killed , and I remember a colleague of mine coming to me to check this figure , because it seemed impossible .
8 David Greetham , 28 , of Wales Street , Aberdeen , is accused of embezzling £5,135.08 while working at the Dalmahoy Hotel , Golf and Country Club at Kirknewton , near Edinburgh , between 1 February and 8 November , 1991 .
9 Lawrie , 34 , of Broughton Road , Edinburgh , admitted stealing the cash while working at the Thistle Foundation 's offices in Niddrie Mains Road between June and November 1991 .
10 Mr Litherland , Labour MP for Manchester Central , said he had drawn attention to the security flaw after a building worker told him of his concern while working at the court building .
11 Some of the more important include George Blake , who worked for MI6 ( see Chapter 2 ) ; John Cairncross , who betrayed Ultra secrets from the Government Code & Cipher School ( GCCS ) at Bletchley Park during the war to the Russians ; John Vassall , a sad homosexual who gave away naval secrets while working at the Admiralty ; Frank Bossard , who gave the Russians details of British and American guided weapons systems ( which must have amused them greatly as the Russians were far ahead of the West at the time ) ; and William Marshall , who had worked as a cipher clerk at the British Embassy in Moscow .
12 An important step in establishing this was taken by Einstein in 1905 ( that amazing year in which , while working at the patent office in Berne , he also invented special relativity and explained Brownian motion ) .
13 Peter Jones , 44 , from Childwall , Liverpool , was struck by the disease of the nervous system last Christmas while working at the North-East Nissan car plant .
14 A workman was rescued by the fire brigade at the weekend when he became stuck on a hydraulic platform while working at the Seabird Hotel , The Front , Seaton Carew .
15 I 'd never thought of myself as working at the NME because I was in awe of it ; I used to read it all the time , Tony Tyler , Charles Shaar Murray and people like that .
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