Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] working [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This wreck was the Small Gains , which had gone down more than twenty-live years before , when hundreds of barges were still working under sail . |
| 2 | In his memoirs the former president writes , ‘ At the beginning of my second term , Congress , the bureaucracy and the media were still working in concert to maintain the ideas and ideology of the traditional Eastern liberal establishment that had come down to 1973 through the New Deal , the New Frontier , and the Great Society . ’ |
| 3 | That was , that was what the crew were getting four pound a week and course my father that time he done away with a cabin boy so I had to do more or less two jobs , see if I were n't working on deck I 'd go down and clean the cabins and that 's how , that 's how we kept the money going course then after a few years when they got to the finish about nineteen thirty one then the harbourmaster turned round and he ruc reduced our wages five shillings a week , so we were getting three pound fifteen a week . |
| 4 | Hamilton and I did dummies of what an alternative paper might look like — we were then working on Student , and had access to design material . |
| 5 | In the primary or literal sense of the words it was , but since the machine was not working under power and was only in temporary motion for necessary adjustment , the House of Lords chose to give the words the secondary meaning of ‘ mechanical propulsion . ’ |
| 6 | Money was bad , but he was still working for Liberty and picked up work on Pageant magazine . |
| 7 | Soon after his call , they met for a meal at Shoney 's Big Boy restaurant where Franks/Schafer introduced him to Burchette , who was then working from home as a one-man security service , and to Jack Terrell , a former operative of Oliver North 's in Central America . |