Example sentences of "[was/were] work in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were working in a sewer at Baughton near Upton on Severn in Worcestershire when they were engulfed by a wall of water . |
| 2 | He and William were working in a field covered with snow . |
| 3 | Offices It works in this fashion : If you were working in a suite of offices , you might , if you were so inclined , have one office dedicated to word processing , one for drawing , another for accounting and so on . |
| 4 | They were working in a flat below the old money-lender 's at the time of the murder , but not at the time of the ‘ rehearsal ’ three days earlier . |
| 5 | In Pennsylvania in 1975 , two seamen were working in an office when another sailor appeared in the office and aimed a shot at one seaman 's head and fled . |
| 6 | So you can , so you got a promotion and you were working in the Navy when you came |
| 7 | The two ADF receivers were working in the ADF mode at the time of the crash , though the No 1 unit may have been subject to intermittent electrical interruptions due to poorly soldered joints . |
| 8 | Indeed these figures made even sorrier reading for the Conservatives when one realised that demographic shifts were working in the Government 's favour . |
| 9 | Plainly , there is therefore an absolute necessity of early identification of all witnesses upon whom one might rely , even if at that stage statements are not taken from them , thus for example , it would be good practice to identify all those persons who witnessed the accident , who were working in the vicinity of the pursuer at the time of the accident , together with those who have a supervisory function , such as Foreman , Supervisors and Shift Managers . |
| 10 | In Aspdin 's day cement manufacture was undergoing relatively rapid development and many experimenters were working in the field . |
| 11 | It had been a warm autumnal day in early October and she , Alex and her father were working in the garden . |
| 12 | Their influence is apparent in the work of the anthropologists who were working in the period between the two world wars . |
| 13 | Of the estimated 1,500 journeymen and 1,200 apprentices working as printers ( pressmen and compositors combined ) in Scotland in the 1850s , rather more than half were working in the book and jobbing section of the trade , the rest in newspaper offices . " |
| 14 | Those whose husbands were working in the area in reserved occupations were fortunate indeed . |
| 15 | That autumn , I was working in a vineyard in the Medoc , north of Bordeaux , and with time to spare when the vintage finished , I decided to visit Rennes-le-Chateau and see for myself what all the fuss was about . |
| 16 | Richard was not aware that he was no longer reasoning , hut allowing a series of overlapping images — the drawing of lord Jim , Tilda cooking — to act as a substitute for argument , so that his mind was working in a way not far different from Maurice 's , or Nenna 's . |
| 17 | In 1906 , a seventeen-year-old orphan called Jane Balfe was working in a factory . |
| 18 | I was working in a factory mass producing men 's suits . |
| 19 | I was working in a heart clinic off Harley Street as a receptionist and delivery boy when I decided to join the French Foreign Legion . |
| 20 | He was working in a thicket of briar , elder and dead wood from a fallen tree . |
| 21 | Erm eventually er , one of my teachers in my school had migrated to this country and he was living in Southall at that time and he was working in a bakery . |
| 22 | The personnel manager felt that if she was working in a establishment with a lower turn-over she would be more democratic because there would be more time . |
| 23 | He 'd been taken prisoner by the Japs , and had been shipped to Japan , and was working in a warehouse in the docks on the morning of 9 August , 1945 . |
| 24 | She was working in a hospital . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I just mean they 're not exactly the sort of people she 'd be rubbing shoulders with if she was working in a bank . |
| 26 | Right , I was subject to a , an assault that was quite frightening erm in that I was working in a shop on my own and er someone came into the shop and locked the door behind me and tried er to pull me down towards the back of the shop and er apart from being very frightened I find it difficult to accept that I was just an innocent victim , I kept making excuses that this person who did it to me did n't mean to frighten me he , only could n't communicate that he , he , he said it eventually when I managed to fight him off he said , I just wanted to give you a kiss and er I find it very difficult and I had to be forced to go to the police erm to tell them about this because I thought you know its just a misunderstanding and , but it was terrifying |
| 27 | Anyhow it was like the sea and boats and everything else and I used to I was working in a shop and I use to get up early in the morning and go down and tally all the numbers and names of the boats and and there was an old man came in to shop while I was working in and asked about a certain boat , I says oh I can tell you , trek down . |
| 28 | ’ Last time I saw her she was working in a shop . ’ |
| 29 | But one of the happiest jobs I ever had was working in a place called Lonsdale Sports . |
| 30 | He had a variety of unskilled jobs , and at the beginning of the 1880s , when he first became involved in radical politics , he was working in a wallpaper warehouse . |