Example sentences of "[was/were] working [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lawyers for Virgin and BA were working into the night , going over a settlement which could cost BA up to £10 million . |
| 2 | Lawyers for Virgin and BA were working into the night , going over the small print of an agreement which could cost BA up to £10 million . |
| 3 | Vauxcelles refers to some of the painters of the Indépendants of 1910 who were working under the influence of Cézanne as ‘ ignorant geometricians , who reduce scenery and the human body to dull cubes ’ . |
| 4 | And er I got involved on national registration and er , on one occasion , we were working , we 'd got a deadline and we were working through the weekend , and my wife came to pick me up at what she thought was a reasonable time , at one o'clock on Saturday , found she was given a cup of tea and set to work , and we finished , going home about midnight . . |
| 5 | They were working through the buildings quickly and , as far as he could tell , efficiently . |
| 6 | By Thursday the finding of the clothes was being linked with the Scapegoat ritual , giving the story an angle , and on Friday three reporters were working through the town 's pubs , picking up local colour and gossip . |
| 7 | There were no people at the tables , and Aileen and Tildy were working at the back of the restaurant . |
| 8 | And you were working at the ski-shop in order to keep body and soul together ? ’ |
| 9 | I had recently been working on Orwell 's radio scripts in the BBC 's Written Archive Centre at Caversham , one of the most important archives for modern British history outside the Public Record Office , and here in this room in Sackville Street were books written by all the authors and broadcasters I had grown familiar with , who were working at the time George Orwell was broadcasting and before . |
| 10 | Most of the survivors were ones who were working at the time . |
| 11 | Most of the high technology services firms were working at the frontier of computer usage , developing new software packages or sophisticated interactive training models for business . |
| 12 | They added that they were working for the government undercover and that they had enough evidence to ‘ make the charge stick ’ . |
| 13 | The first real headhunting firms — in the first phase of headhunting — insisted that they were working for the company , not the candidate , and the company was paying the bill . |
| 14 | Meanwhile Today wo n't comment because of legal proceedings … they add Neither the editor nor the managing editor of Today were working for the newspaper at the time of the original article on April 25th 1989 . |
| 15 | During the quarter ending December 1991 , 923 people were working for the council . |
| 16 | In 1969 Josef Frolik of the Czechoslovakian intelligence service defected to the CIA with his wife and proceeded to give some startling information about numerous British Labour Party politicians and trade union officials who he claimed were working for the KGB . |
| 17 | During the time that Ted and Jim were working on the engine , our chief researcher Bill Welbourne had been finding out a few details about the aircraft . |
| 18 | Shortly after the IDA applied for planning permission , 46 workers representing eight trade unions who were working on the construction of the Raybestos factory issued a statement : |
| 19 | There seems little doubt that all over the country inventive minds were working on the problem in different ways but the solution came in an unusual fashion . |
| 20 | When we brought this to Lowe 's attention they said they were working on the problem . |
| 21 | These problems were not strange to the Prague School , who were working on the semiotics of art about twenty years before Barthes . |
| 22 | During the last year erm when we were working on the requirement , we carried out a number of erm comparisons descoping or aircraft in various respects . |
| 23 | ‘ Capron said he knew you were working on the Mills case and that we must have discussed it together . ’ |
| 24 | How many officers were working on the case at the height of its investigation ? |
| 25 | But I you know hopeful I know that th th th quite a large and high numbers but what we agreed was if we were working on the basis of something like on one person every six weeks |
| 26 | One person stated that the government was unwilling to evaluate itself about how its policies were working on the ground . |
| 27 | John Dunlop from Springburn and John Rodgers from Lenzie were working on the scaffolding in Albion Street when the incident occurred . |
| 28 | The DIY was given a lower priority from then on but , even when they were working on the house , the mood changed enormously . |
| 29 | At least they were working on the complex that day , at least the civilian contractors had been able to bribe their private work force to cross the picket lines . |
| 30 | A group of geophysicists who were working on the rocks of the floor of the north-east Pacific had discovered , before Hess 's suggestion was published , that instead of a random pattern of reversals , such as were common on land , the oceanic crust in the Pacific exhibited a pattern of ‘ strip reversals ’ ; the rocks in each strip were magnetized in one fixed direction , but the rocks in alternate , parallel strips were magnetized in the reverse direction . |