Example sentences of "was work in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was to work in the kitchens . |
| 2 | ‘ He was working in the gardens at the château when I was staying in France , and I discovered he was English . |
| 3 | James had studied law at university but now was working in the personnel department of Cadbury 's . |
| 4 | He 'd been er had an accident in the quarry some time ago and he was working in the helping as a mate or something in the carpenter 's shop and he he must have been h must have had his hands in our pile of finished products and er Well partly finished products and er he er he was caught one of the cos er these castings there was a an edge to them you know , the joint of the the mould that came together sort of thing . |
| 5 | At the same time the Unwanted Gifts team was working in the Undercroft cupboard . |
| 6 | Well I was working in the quarry , and er it 's last March turned round and said he wanted a new implemented with a new miracle saw that he had bought and he did n't really give us much warning about what he was gon na do but all he said was that er he was gon na scrap our old bonus contract and implement a new one no matter what , and from various figures that were bandied about we all realized we were gon na back quite a lot worse off because of it . |
| 7 | Mr Jenkins , of Woodside Terrace , East Herrington , was working in the premises when he fell . |
| 8 | It was his first London teaching job and he was working in the Humanities department : ‘ It was right in the beginning I suppose and there was about two months before I actually started . ’ |
| 9 | I was working in the middle of the coffee region and so the Supplies Team was also in charge of the coffee plantations , Normally it was the women who did the harvesting , working some four hours a day . |
| 10 | ‘ He told her his name was William , and that he was working in the north for a little while . |
| 11 | ‘ I was working in the BBC pensions department and had short-lived aspirations of getting into TV . |
| 12 | He added that the children 's father was working in the United States . |
| 13 | One lady who was working in the Smithy and had recently been directed to Wolverton , kept pestering him for one , and at times was quite verbal about it . |
| 14 | I was working in the Casting Shop . |
| 15 | ‘ I was working in the shop one day in 1979 when Ted Perry came in and announced ‘ I 'm starting a new label ’ . |
| 16 | He said Christopher Davies who was working in the shop Butterflys on Grange Road , Darlington , was injured during a fracas with Cowper over the theft of a £11.75 torch . |
| 17 | And then when you were out she was working in the shop ? |
| 18 | Er , Sir , she was working in the care sector as a residential home manager . |
| 19 | Later that evening , when darkness was falling , Seb was working in the stables by lamplight . |
| 20 | The Save the Children Fund , which was working in the camps , made a report which exposed the scandal of the Ethiopian camps . |
| 21 | Cos everybody was working in the slate then . |
| 22 | The ‘ awful , contagious disorder ’ struck in 1783 and killed twenty prisoners and a carpenter who was working in the gaol . |
| 23 | At Cornforth Lane School , Coxhoe , the children sang the 23rd psalm when the news was broken , says H. Ellerby , who was working in the kitchens at the school . |
| 24 | who was working in the hill |
| 25 | They was working in the fields . |
| 26 | The eighteenth-century historian and topographer Freiherr Johann von Valvasor describes the life of the frontiersmen : ‘ Whenever a man was working in the fields he always carried his arms with him and kept a horse saddled near his plough . |
| 27 | One day the following week when Tess was working in the fields as usual , Alec d'Urberville came to see her . |
| 28 | She was working in the library her regular three days a week now . |
| 29 | Trevor was working in the States at the time of this interview . |
| 30 | Now there was a lady who was working in the site and she was doing this with her hand . |