Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] was working [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The war was over , I had a steady boyfriend who was n't likely to be shot down over the Ruhr , and I was working with a bunch of very congenial people . |
| 2 | At least it felt like it was my own money and I was working for it . |
| 3 | Cherry Vanilla was doing nothing — she was eating fruit and breaking out all the time as a result , Jane was doing nothing too — she 'd started a group called Queen Elizabeth which played little , low-life funky bars on the Lower Eastside , Tony Zanetta was working coding , which is a very ignominious job that out-of-work actors do in New York , and I was working at 16 Magazine as a tea boy . |
| 4 | I was a shorthand typist for British Railways at Stratford , East London , and I was working at my desk . |
| 5 | And I was working at this day and being a Monday or a Tuesday after the Mo Sunday meeting . |
| 6 | And , well , I was n't doing anything , so I just started writing songs again — but this time they were guitar-based songs and I was working on a Portastudio . |
| 7 | And I was working in a large warehouse , a three floor warehouse , a grocers , grocers . |
| 8 | The monastery of Santa de Nogueira was a peaceful place , and she was working through her life , straightening out the kinks in her psyche . |
| 9 | Thank god when you was up in Liverpool up there somewhere , and she was working in that factory , she was at it every day , I was |
| 10 | Erm eventually er , one of my teachers in my school had migrated to this country and he was living in Southall at that time and he was working in a bakery . |
| 11 | He 'd been er had an accident in the quarry some time ago and he was working in the helping as a mate or something in the carpenter 's shop and he he must have been h must have had his hands in our pile of finished products and er Well partly finished products and er he er he was caught one of the cos er these castings there was a an edge to them you know , the joint of the the mould that came together sort of thing . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | But I was working on it . |
| 14 | And for soon after that me father had to give up the mine be because of his health and he went to work at the depot er were the bus depot and he worked in the battery house where they made all the batteries up , charged the batteries for the buses , looked after the electrical side there was electrician , he were n't , me father were n't electrician but he was working with electrician but his main job was charging the batteries , putting them on in groups in the , in the er battery house and charging house , to keep all the batteries charged up for all the buses petrol buses tr and trolley buses . |
| 15 | 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 . |