Example sentences of "was work at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 M.E. Railton , Harcourt Street , Hopetown , Darlington : I was working at the Broadway Cafe in Darlington when one of the customers came in and said the King had died .
2 On the morning of 9 January 19571 was working at the Treasury when a message was delivered summoning me to Number 10 at 3 o'clock .
3 In 1911 , when he was working at the Rockefeller Institute in New York , he described the transmission of a malignant new growth by means of a cell-free filtrate .
4 I supervised her professional training while she was working at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute at Penicuik , and appointed her as an Assistant Librarian at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh just over a year ago .
5 ‘ I was working at the store and I was pretty much going nowhere , from eleven to fifteen .
6 It is not as if Eurotunnel was working at the leading-edge of technological innovation .
7 Although Mum was working at the fish shop she did n't get much for her labours , sometimes only some fish and chips .
8 Well I became aware of the University of Sussex when the Gardener Centre first opened I think , because at that time I was working at the Arts Council of Great Britain and it was erm an innovative scheme which attracted a great deal of national interest , and we were naturally invited down to have a look at it , both the design and the programme that was being planned for the opening season at that time .
9 till we got to near the den and do that and we spent er a year and a half there and all the time we were watching this house being built , because I was working at the Corporation and the number of people of the Corporation from the tea boy cadet down came up to see this , this and that , was nobody 's business , mm , without , we enjoyed it , it was quite funny really it is
10 Only that amount which exceeds what would be spent on lunch if the employee was working at the office can even be considered .
11 Celia was working at the office on Saturday morning .
12 She was working at the Body Shop part-time , she 's back there three days working now or something .
13 The incident happened in February last year , while Frak was working at the Ashbury Lodge Nursing Home in Marlborough Road in Swindon .
14 I have , I did have experience with cheques and credit cards , but that was when I was working at the chemist , but now we do n't take cheques .
15 CD regarded as his ‘ masterpiece ’ the Transfiguration , the great altar-piece on which he was working at the time of his death ; but found his Incendo del Borgo , one of the frescos ( designed by Raphael but painted by collaborators ) in the Stanze of the Vatican , an ‘ incredible caricature ’ .
16 Of these the most important was Theodore Robinson , who did become a close friend of the painter , and who produced some paintings of the haystacks on which Monet was working at the time , which are almost indistinguishable from those of the master .
17 Given that Finn 's Hotel is where the author 's adored Nora Barnacle was working at the time they met , will it be a love story ?
18 There 'll be twenty people at least who could swear he was working at the time .
19 And in the week , I do n't think he was working at the time , but on a Sunday morning he 'd walk out of that terrace house and er he 'd be immaculate , absolutely .
20 Kiefer Sutherland was born on September 18 , 1966 , in St Marys Hospital , London ( where his father actor Donald Sutherland , was working at the time ) .
21 In the middle and upper classes at least , children stayed " children " for longer ( it was harder for a child to remain so when it was working at the age of 12 or 13 ) ; girls and young women were more shielded from experience outside the home ; parents were , on the whole , stricter and more repressive .
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