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

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1 Using just four rows of pattern , this sample was worked on the Singer Big Nine and after the first four rows was extremely easy to work .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 The incident happened in February last year , while Frak was working at the Ashbury Lodge Nursing Home in Marlborough Road in Swindon .
5 ‘ All he told me was that he was working for the Sovbloc desk at Six , and they were looking for a deserter , but he did n't even have Blagg 's name .
6 She explained to Farmer Plant how she used the outjutting twin branches of the tree as her pony , as she had n't a real one to ride , and how she was working for the Pony Rider badge .
7 While he was working for the K.K.K. , he sent the pips to frighten those three men .
8 Mills was probably murdered because he was working for the KGB .
9 Michel Laclotte came at the time he was working on the Musée D'Orsay .
10 He was working on the Saturday and took a stroke on the Sunday . ’
11 The Party was particularly concerned with gaining influence among the unemployed and was working with the NUWM as early as 1931 .
12 The Faithful was working off the Yorkshire coast last November when it was in a collision with a Bridlington trawler and almost sunk .
13 ‘ I was working in the BBC pensions department and had short-lived aspirations of getting into TV .
14 He added that the children 's father was working in the United States .
15 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 .
16 Trevor was working in the States at the time of this interview .
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