Example sentences of "was [adv] work on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE PATHOLOGIST WAS already working on the post-mortem . |
| 2 | Gray was already working on the second edition when he caught smallpox from his nephew , developed the confluent form of the disease , and died at 8 Wilton Street , Belgrave Square , London , 8 June 1871 , aged thirty-six according to the obituary notices of the Lancet and the Proceedings of the Royal Society , which raises the question of his date of birth , usually stated as 1827 . |
| 3 | Henry 's mind was still working on the possibility of marrying Alice of France to another of his sons . |
| 4 | And when it was n't working on the farm a transport on the back and a bag of straw to sit on and it became the family 's personal transport . |
| 5 | Mat. 's door , in my own mind I had been slung out for encouraging unseemly behaviour from a male patient and was miserably working on the choice of my next career . |