Example sentences of "was work [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A main objective was to work towards a community based service for people with mental illness through joint planning by the NHS , local authorities , and voluntary agencies . |
| 2 | They told him that his only remedy was to work as a government agent . |
| 3 | It was the beginning of these automatics , you 've seen these photos on the , on the television where these welders come down and they go in like this , well these was the beginning of that sort of thing because it was worked with a motor and a cam which er er the cam went round and it 'd lift the arm up and when it was went past the , the knuckle it 'd drop down and the speed you them out or the speed you sent them out how fast the arm would go up and down , and that was stitch welding . |
| 4 | Bodenham Lake was worked as a gravel pit until nineteen eighty-seven . |
| 5 | At first it was worked by a mixture of RT and RM type buses . |
| 6 | This wheel was worked by a man getting inside and walking forward rapidly . |
| 7 | Each plot was worked by a group of apprentices to produce the leeks , potatoes and brassicas that were the staples of their unimaginative but reasonably nourishing diet . |
| 8 | But it was working as a computer specialist in the insurance industry that gave him the necessary experience , most notably the motor insurance experience , he needed . |
| 9 | Here is Munby 's description of Hannah when she was working as a servant in a Margate boarding house in the early 1860s : |
| 10 | ‘ I started from the bottom — a poor family , elementary school , then night school while I was working as a clerk . |
| 11 | 1634 ) was working as a mason at Wollaton in 1588 . |
| 12 | In 1985 John Irvine , who was working as a curate at 1000 strong Holy Trinity Brompton , led a team of 100 from that congregation across parish and deanery boundaries to St Barnabas ’ near Shepherd 's Bush . |
| 13 | She was working as a petrol station cashier when armed robbers threatened her with a knife during a raid . |
| 14 | John Hey 's eldest son , Melling ( 1808–65 ) , was described as a fancy weaver when his elder children were baptised between 1836 and 1842 , but when his last child was baptised in 1846 he was working as a labourer and in the 1851 census returns his occupation was given as groom . |
| 15 | Colin Mackie , 26 , a self-confessed former heroin addict , told the court that Murray had injected him with heroin during drug-taking sessions while he was working as a tyre fitter with Kenway . |
| 16 | Yes , that was some time ago when I was working as a hostess with the British Council and used to collect meet VIPs at the station and bring them here to the university . |
| 17 | Before his detention , Tsetsen was working as a bookkeeper at the Banakshol Guesthouse in Lhasa . |
| 18 | By that time I was working as a registrar in an infectious diseases hospital and had been called out to see a very ill child who had just been admitted to the unit . |
| 19 | When she met Hubert Molland she was working as a secretary in London . |
| 20 | At the time of the raid , Ellis was working as a technician at Ruffwood Comprehensive School in Kirkby . |
| 21 | A S. I remember when I was working as a dogsbody in the 59 Theatre Company in Manchester a group of Central School students came to be the spirits in a production of The Tempest and these were Pisk trained and had , it seemed to me then , a marvellous range of body language . |
| 22 | At the time he wrote Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em he was working as a cleaner in a cinema on the Isle of Wight . |
| 23 | Elaine Dulston , 33 , of Balmoral Road , Darlington , who claimed benefit while she was working as a shop assistant was yesterday ordered by Darlington magistrates to pay £891 compensation to the DSS . |
| 24 | In 1713 , by which time Erskine was at the height of his influence , he received a letter at St. Petersburg ( Leningrad ) from Ayrshire 's Earl of Loudoun , asking him to favour a young Scottish doctor called Thomas Garvine who was working as a surgeon in St. Petersburg hospital . |
| 25 | Darlington magistrates were told how Taylor had continued to claim benefit while his wife Sharon was working as a barmaid . |
| 26 | They met in 1979 when Ms Jones was working as a waitress in The Peppermint Lounge , a lively eaterie Mr Myers had developed . |
| 27 | ‘ I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar … that much is true . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar … that much is true . ’ |
| 29 | Born in Sunderland and left for London , aged 17 , Stewart met Annie Lennox in 1977 where she was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar . |
| 30 | In 1971 Lady Onslow was working as a volunteer for Teamwork Associates , a charity which sought to keep ex-Borstal boys on the straight and narrow . |