Example sentences of "worked during [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Mr Tommy Brennan , stewards ' convenor , says they worked during the 1984-1985 miners strike — incurring the wrath of the NUM — after management warned that any cool down would threaten the works . |
2 | The last recorded miller was Duncan Preston , who worked during the 1880s and '90s . |
3 | We will always be grateful to the doctors and nurses who worked during the festive season , as well as all year round . |
4 | Although not an outstanding boxer himself , he assisted a number of other young boxers including the more famous ex-slave champion Tom Molyneux in whose corner he worked during the Virginian 's classic fight with the English heavyweight champion Tom Cribb in December 1810 , Cribb finishing victorious ( Egan , 1812 ) . |
5 | I explained that I worked during the winter for a golf-mad stockbroker called Andrew Buccleuth whom I had met during my year on the amateur circuit . |
6 | And the label was retrospectively applied to all " females " in the trade , although it had originally been relevant only to a handful of school-leavers , comparable to the boy apprentices who also worked during the strike . |
7 | Well you took all this sort of things in your stride but the next day we heard about these houses being knocked down , you see , and I think that 's the nearest I 've been to be killed but one day , one Saturday and that was in a daylight raid , one Saturday afternoon because , you see , I was off every afternoon but I worked till ten every night , you see , and er so erm but of course Hugh worked during the day and he was off in the evening , that 's why he used to come down to see , to see us and er he used to come in er you see and leave his lodgings and , oh be about nine o'clock and he spent the last day up there perhaps with his friends , have a chat , and er , you see , and but er and I was walking along it was called and suddenly a plane came over and I thought oh I expect it 's one of ours . |
8 | By a curious twist of fate it was the same house where Pease and George Stephenson worked during the plan and construction of the Stockton to Darlington railway . |
9 | He did , in fact , start in an other area of expertise — he took a degree in engineering at the University of Cambridge and worked during the War as an aircraft engineer . |