Example sentences of "men [was/were] work [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The steersman pointed downriver to where men were working on a scaffolding which stretched out across the river . |
| 2 | The men were working on a maintenance gantry suspended beneath the bridge when the gantry collapsed throwing the men more than a hundred feet into the river below . |
| 3 | The men were working on the hard shoulder installing cables for emergency telephones when the lorry jacknifed . |
| 4 | 3 men were working on the gantry when it fell from beneath the Severn Bridge in September 1990 . |
| 5 | The three men were working on the bridge when a cradle supporting them collapsed ; nineteen year old Mark Seaton from Chepstow in Gwent says he knows he 's lucky but what he feels most is anger . |
| 6 | The Industrial Revolution , which created a vast demand for urban housing , made Welsh slate an almost universal roofing material , and by the middle of the nineteenth century some 16,000 men were working in the quarries , producing roofing slates called ‘ duchesses ’ and ‘ countesses ’ , among other titled ladies , according to their size . |