Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] work on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Liberal Democrats were not working on the hypothesis that the phone would ring to ask them to join a coalition government . |
| 2 | If those men were not working on the gas I would go over there now , and I 'd switch the fire and I 'd leave it on . |
| 3 | DETECTIVES investigating an alleged attack on two prisoners found unconscious in their cell were yesterday working on the theory they had been fighting each other . |
| 4 | Grand Met was going directly to the new format , but analysts were still working on the old style p&l accounts . |
| 5 | The result was that other departments er particularly the fitters for example er who were still working on the old scheme , wanted to , they then wanted to come onto the scheme . |
| 6 | He had been stripped and measured , and two tailors were now working on the clothes . |
| 7 | We were n't working on the hard drive . |
| 8 | THE PATHOLOGIST WAS already working on the post-mortem . |
| 9 | Gray was already working on the second edition when he caught smallpox from his nephew , developed the confluent form of the disease , and died at 8 Wilton Street , Belgrave Square , London , 8 June 1871 , aged thirty-six according to the obituary notices of the Lancet and the Proceedings of the Royal Society , which raises the question of his date of birth , usually stated as 1827 . |
| 10 | Henry 's mind was still working on the possibility of marrying Alice of France to another of his sons . |
| 11 | And when it was n't working on the farm a transport on the back and a bag of straw to sit on and it became the family 's personal transport . |
| 12 | Mat. 's door , in my own mind I had been slung out for encouraging unseemly behaviour from a male patient and was miserably working on the choice of my next career . |