Example sentences of "was working [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | one chap feeding the mill and one the other chap then giving him the and the other chap was working below taking away the straw and looking after the grain . |
| 2 | She could imagine that Tom would go out and leave his door open if he was working about the place but not if he had quitted it , and in winter it seemed foolhardy to say the least to leave it and let the cold air invade the house . |
| 3 | A S. I remember when I was working as a dogsbody in the 59 Theatre Company in Manchester a group of Central School students came to be the spirits in a production of The Tempest and these were Pisk trained and had , it seemed to me then , a marvellous range of body language . |
| 4 | At the end of the second world war he was working as a docker in Bangkok 's harbour . |
| 5 | He was working as a trainee film editor with Ulster Television in Belfast and , like most young men , pursuing an active life of sin when he felt the Lord speaking to him . |
| 6 | In 1971 Lady Onslow was working as a volunteer for Teamwork Associates , a charity which sought to keep ex-Borstal boys on the straight and narrow . |
| 7 | ‘ I started from the bottom — a poor family , elementary school , then night school while I was working as a clerk . |
| 8 | In 1713 , by which time Erskine was at the height of his influence , he received a letter at St. Petersburg ( Leningrad ) from Ayrshire 's Earl of Loudoun , asking him to favour a young Scottish doctor called Thomas Garvine who was working as a surgeon in St. Petersburg hospital . |
| 9 | In a fit of unshyness she 'd left the shoe shop and was working as a receptionist at a doctor 's practice . |
| 10 | In 1985 John Irvine , who was working as a curate at 1000 strong Holy Trinity Brompton , led a team of 100 from that congregation across parish and deanery boundaries to St Barnabas ’ near Shepherd 's Bush . |
| 11 | She had since left the New York City Ballet , and was working as a counsellor for the blind at both the Lighthouse and the Jewish Guild . |
| 12 | By that time I was working as a registrar in an infectious diseases hospital and had been called out to see a very ill child who had just been admitted to the unit . |
| 13 | Elizabeth , of Taunton , Somerset , was working as an advertising executive in Durban and had announced her engagement just three days before her death . |
| 14 | They met in 1979 when Ms Jones was working as a waitress in The Peppermint Lounge , a lively eaterie Mr Myers had developed . |
| 15 | But it was working as a computer specialist in the insurance industry that gave him the necessary experience , most notably the motor insurance experience , he needed . |
| 16 | By 1747 , the year of his marriage to the cheerful and practical Salzburger , Maria Anna Pertl , he was working as fourth violinist in the court orchestra of the prince archbishop of Salzburg . |
| 17 | I was working as a tele-ad girl with the Irish Press Group . |
| 18 | Before his detention , Tsetsen was working as a bookkeeper at the Banakshol Guesthouse in Lhasa . |
| 19 | When she met Hubert Molland she was working as a secretary in London . |
| 20 | For the moment he was working as actor and horse-rider with the circus . |
| 21 | John McCarthy was working as a journalist in Beirut when he was seized on his way to the airport to leave . |
| 22 | I was working as a care assistant … |
| 23 | Here is Munby 's description of Hannah when she was working as a servant in a Margate boarding house in the early 1860s : |
| 24 | ‘ I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar … that much is true . ’ |
| 25 | The short answer was that when I was working as inspector of taxes I used to give these talks , I was required to give talks . |
| 26 | So I do n't think I should be saying , if I was working as an advisor on your behalf , I do n't think you should be making big transfers at this stage , because it 's always dodgy . |
| 27 | 1634 ) was working as a mason at Wollaton in 1588 . |
| 28 | One of his assistants in this task was Christopher Saxton [ q.v. ] , who came from Dunningley near Dewsbury , and who was working as his servant in 1570 . |
| 29 | His father , Charles Stuart , was born in Paisley , near Glasgow , and by 1858 was working as a pattern-maker in Halifax ; his mother , Ann Ackroyd ( the given spelling of his middle name ) , was the daughter of Jonathan Ackroyd , a worsted cloth weaver of Luddenden near Halifax . |
| 30 | The conclusion drawn was that it was the fact that the group was working as a team that was important . |