Example sentences of "while work [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The disadvantage , of not gaining any practical experience of the knowledge you acquire while working through the course , can be overcome . |
| 2 | You will recall , however , that before you vanished from our lives you entrusted me with the notes you had kept while working on the Big Glass and the Green Box , telling me I could do what I liked with them , and adding , in your usual sensitive way , that I could always use them to wipe my arse if the paper decided to sack me and I found myself really hard up . |
| 3 | There is a one-in-328 chance of an employee being killed in accident while working on the nation 's farms . |
| 4 | While working on the catapult Endill started to keep a diary . |
| 5 | While working on the two biker films and his one sentence in The St Valentine 's Day Massacre , undemanding as they were , Nicholson was also writing another film script for Corman who was once again ahead of the field in latching on to the latest craze sweeping through the world : the children of the post-war baby boom were coming out to play and nothing could stop them now . |
| 6 | Beyond that he has to rely on hand tools — planes , chisels , reamers , scrapers and the odd bicycle inner tube ( ‘ great for holding a psaltery in shape while working on the joints ’ ) . |
| 7 | Do you have an enclosed unlit porch that would give a housebreaker some cover while working on the front door lock ? |
| 8 | While working on the new opera , Don Giovanni , he also completed two string quintets , K.515 in C and K.516 in G minor — one of his greatest works in that key ; the Violin Sonata in A , K.526 ; and two small-scale ‘ divertimento-style ’ pieces , the exquisite serenade Eine Kleine Nachtmusik , and its antithesis , Ein musikalischer Späss ( A Musical Joke ) , which , in its wealth of wrong notes and inept harmonies , is obviously intended to be a satire on incompetent composers . |
| 9 | • The Derby 4F which was restored at the NSR was recently featured in a Granada comedy while working on the East Lancashire Railway at Bury . |
| 10 | After the death of Brunel in 1859 he was promoted engineer-in-chief , and it was while working on the ferry piers in 1862–3 that the idea of the Severn railway tunnel came into his mind . |
| 11 | While working on the DEA/CIA operation Hurley had mentioned , Coleman could keep tabs on DEA 's Cyprus station and provide ‘ back channel ’ reports on what it was up to . |
| 12 | A BRITISH Rail supervisor was taken to the Royal Liverpool University Hospital with leg injuries yesterday after he touched a live rail while working on the track . |
| 13 | Gombrich sombrely recalled hearing about Auschwitz while working at the BBC Monitoring Service during the war : ‘ They claimed at that time — I remember that as if it were yesterday — they claimed that at least five million people had been killed , and I remember a colleague of mine coming to me to check this figure , because it seemed impossible . |
| 14 | Some of the more important include George Blake , who worked for MI6 ( see Chapter 2 ) ; John Cairncross , who betrayed Ultra secrets from the Government Code & Cipher School ( GCCS ) at Bletchley Park during the war to the Russians ; John Vassall , a sad homosexual who gave away naval secrets while working at the Admiralty ; Frank Bossard , who gave the Russians details of British and American guided weapons systems ( which must have amused them greatly as the Russians were far ahead of the West at the time ) ; and William Marshall , who had worked as a cipher clerk at the British Embassy in Moscow . |
| 15 | An important step in establishing this was taken by Einstein in 1905 ( that amazing year in which , while working at the patent office in Berne , he also invented special relativity and explained Brownian motion ) . |
| 16 | The spy , referred to in the report only by his US code name " Donald F. " , had been recruited by the US Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) in 1961 while working at the Soviet mission to the United Nations in New York . |
| 17 | Keenan had been kidnapped on April 11 , 1986 , while working at the American University of Beirut . |
| 18 | While working at the cinema , for instance , he tried to repair a cistern and ended up flooding the place . |
| 19 | Peter Jones , 44 , from Childwall , Liverpool , was struck by the disease of the nervous system last Christmas while working at the North-East Nissan car plant . |
| 20 | A workman was rescued by the fire brigade at the weekend when he became stuck on a hydraulic platform while working at the Seabird Hotel , The Front , Seaton Carew . |
| 21 | Mr Litherland , Labour MP for Manchester Central , said he had drawn attention to the security flaw after a building worker told him of his concern while working at the court building . |
| 22 | David Greetham , 28 , of Wales Street , Aberdeen , is accused of embezzling £5,135.08 while working at the Dalmahoy Hotel , Golf and Country Club at Kirknewton , near Edinburgh , between 1 February and 8 November , 1991 . |
| 23 | Lawrie , 34 , of Broughton Road , Edinburgh , admitted stealing the cash while working at the Thistle Foundation 's offices in Niddrie Mains Road between June and November 1991 . |
| 24 | He was noted for his cruelty during the Vietnam War , while working for the CIA , and is now making a living in the world of international money laundering . |
| 25 | My knowledge of chyluria progressed while working for the senior physician of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases . |
| 26 | Tony Long , who sat on a government working party discussing the directive in the mid-1980s while working for the Council for the Protection of Rural England , now runs WWF 's Brussels office . |
| 27 | The opponents at Hampden in October were Rangers , against whom , while working for the other half of the Old Firm , Aitken spent many years being either revered or reviled . |
| 28 | When choosing garment shapes , keep them as simple as possible , unless you are planning to knit the garment while working in the same room , for example on another machine . |
| 29 | C There will be certain knowledge and skills that you will need to acquire while working in the surgical ward . |
| 30 | One autumn day , while working in the library , I found a book which described weeping rituals in ancient Canaan . |