Example sentences of "[was/were] work at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 There were no people at the tables , and Aileen and Tildy were working at the back of the restaurant .
2 And you were working at the ski-shop in order to keep body and soul together ? ’
3 I had recently been working on Orwell 's radio scripts in the BBC 's Written Archive Centre at Caversham , one of the most important archives for modern British history outside the Public Record Office , and here in this room in Sackville Street were books written by all the authors and broadcasters I had grown familiar with , who were working at the time George Orwell was broadcasting and before .
4 Most of the survivors were ones who were working at the time .
5 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 .
6 When I was working at a hospice I followed up bereaved people who it was felt might need some support .
7 When I was working at a Polytechnic , we were once required to submit the areas of current research interest for storage on central records .
8 I was working at a hospital in the out-patients ' department recently and when I was leaving at the end of my shift one day , I saw the following message pinned on the notice board , obviously from an extremely irate patient : ‘ Time is a great healer .
9 A maid took me into the sitting room , where a very pretty lady with dark hair was working at a typewriter .
10 M.E. Railton , Harcourt Street , Hopetown , Darlington : I was working at the Broadway Cafe in Darlington when one of the customers came in and said the King had died .
11 On the morning of 9 January 19571 was working at the Treasury when a message was delivered summoning me to Number 10 at 3 o'clock .
12 ‘ I was working at the store and I was pretty much going nowhere , from eleven to fifteen .
13 It is not as if Eurotunnel was working at the leading-edge of technological innovation .
14 till we got to near the den and do that and we spent er a year and a half there and all the time we were watching this house being built , because I was working at the Corporation and the number of people of the Corporation from the tea boy cadet down came up to see this , this and that , was nobody 's business , mm , without , we enjoyed it , it was quite funny really it is
15 Only that amount which exceeds what would be spent on lunch if the employee was working at the office can even be considered .
16 Celia was working at the office on Saturday morning .
17 She was working at the Body Shop part-time , she 's back there three days working now or something .
18 I have , I did have experience with cheques and credit cards , but that was when I was working at the chemist , but now we do n't take cheques .
19 CD regarded as his ‘ masterpiece ’ the Transfiguration , the great altar-piece on which he was working at the time of his death ; but found his Incendo del Borgo , one of the frescos ( designed by Raphael but painted by collaborators ) in the Stanze of the Vatican , an ‘ incredible caricature ’ .
20 Of these the most important was Theodore Robinson , who did become a close friend of the painter , and who produced some paintings of the haystacks on which Monet was working at the time , which are almost indistinguishable from those of the master .
21 Given that Finn 's Hotel is where the author 's adored Nora Barnacle was working at the time they met , will it be a love story ?
22 There 'll be twenty people at least who could swear he was working at the time .
23 And in the week , I do n't think he was working at the time , but on a Sunday morning he 'd walk out of that terrace house and er he 'd be immaculate , absolutely .
24 Kiefer Sutherland was born on September 18 , 1966 , in St Marys Hospital , London ( where his father actor Donald Sutherland , was working at the time ) .
25 In the middle and upper classes at least , children stayed " children " for longer ( it was harder for a child to remain so when it was working at the age of 12 or 13 ) ; girls and young women were more shielded from experience outside the home ; parents were , on the whole , stricter and more repressive .
26 It was taken in 1902 , when he was working at an engineering factory in West London .
27 In July 1988 William , 52 , was working at an engineering firm when the motor from an overhead crane toppled on to him , fracturing his skull , damaging his neck and breaking his collar-bone .
28 The accident happened while he was working at an extension to a silo .
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