Example sentences of "was work [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I try to work against the way I was taught , which was to work on the paintings as a whole and bring things up to a certain degree of finish . |
| 2 | Yet he realised how important it was to work with the Russians and he had no intention of disrupting the wartime alliance . |
| 3 | The LDP 's rebellious faction no longer looks like splitting off : on June 2nd one of its members said secession would achieve nothing , and that the best way to bring about reform was to work behind the scenes . |
| 4 | She was to work in the kitchens . |
| 5 | It was a straw bonnet , biscuit-coloured and it was worked round the edges with red ; I suppose it was thin cord ; but it had red round it and red on the top . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ So why did Urquhart keep telling me Mills probably was working for the Russians ? ’ |
| 8 | I was working on the gardens and we had to sweep all the grounds . |
| 9 | This is hardly surprising , since its gestation period comprised the years in which Eliot was working on the Notes . |
| 10 | Richard Ogden was working on the Motors with a lawyer in New York , Charles Levison , who later became the managing director of Arista records in the UK and managing director of Warner Brothers . |
| 11 | I chose to go to Worlingworth primary school , I was working with the infants , generally I was a classroom helper . |
| 12 | That Leeds was working within the constraints of this theory as early as 1912 is often overlooked . |
| 13 | ‘ He was working in the gardens at the château when I was staying in France , and I discovered he was English . |
| 14 | James had studied law at university but now was working in the personnel department of Cadbury 's . |
| 15 | Mr Jenkins , of Woodside Terrace , East Herrington , was working in the premises when he fell . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | Later that evening , when darkness was falling , Seb was working in the stables by lamplight . |
| 18 | The Save the Children Fund , which was working in the camps , made a report which exposed the scandal of the Ethiopian camps . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They was working in the fields . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | One day the following week when Tess was working in the fields as usual , Alec d'Urberville came to see her . |
| 23 | He was working in the parks just now so he was back in , and apparently he 'd had to go round and baby-sit for them the night before . |