Example sentences of "was [adv] [prep] work " in BNC.
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| 1 | Karen Silk , defending , said : ‘ He was only at work because he had been asked to do an extra shift . |
| 2 | The energetic Mungo Graeme of Gorthie was soon at work among the commissioners of supply , trying to prevent any difference among them over the collectorship , and succeeded , through the mediation of Robert Graham of Killearn , in persuading Buchanan of Aucheneen to make no opposition to Michael Elphinstone 's re-election . |
| 3 | Her father was away at work . |
| 4 | In Brown v Rentokil Ltd [ 1992 ] 453 IRLIB 4 , the EAT ruled that an employee who had been dismissed in accordance with sickness absence rules when she was away from work because of pregnancy-related illness , was not discriminated against . |
| 5 | I was away from work . |
| 6 | There was no sign of Sean but Mrs Cranbrook was already at work . |
| 7 | Matilda 's wonderfully subtle mind was already at work devising yet another suitable punishment for the poisonous parent . |
| 8 | His aunt , Marjerie , was already at work , and the smell of roasting meat came from the range . |
| 9 | I was already at work . |
| 10 | Mr Glenn was uninjured but was badly shaken and was yesterday off work recovering . |
| 11 | He was always at work , always Sunday . |
| 12 | He was always in work because he was cheerful , absolutely straight and very good company . |
| 13 | He was always in work , right from the day he left school . ’ |
| 14 | By the late 1960s , Hammer had ceased to become an effective production centre but its influence was still at work . |
| 15 | Others would emerge from the ruin of the body itself , and he had been in constant contact with Ian Macdonald , who was still at work in Oxford . |
| 16 | Elizabeth Addams lived next door , Thomas Addams was still at work in his smith 's shop , Thomas Burge had taken over as the Bristol carrier , and the Clement family were producing cloth for all they were worth in workshops at the end of the street . |
| 17 | Shoppers at the Gateway supermarket in Hinckley , Leicester , thought he was still at work and ignored him . |
| 18 | Wycliffe led the way into Glynn 's office where one of the scenes-of-crime team was still at work . |
| 19 | By the gate the Patriarch 's buxom companion was still at work , weeding a not particularly fertile-looking patch of edging . |
| 20 | Something stronger than party was clearly at work . |
| 21 | Moses Mossop was regularly at work making and mending wooden barrels . |
| 22 | She was here to work , to wend her way among the clusters of people gathered around the groaning buffet tables , to smile like a wax mannequin and to stop when requested , to pirouette and offer the same answer to each question about her gown whether it dealt with size , colour , fabric , price or availability . |
| 23 | After deciding that oak would be best for the job , it was then to work , carefully measuring the arch and getting it all drawn up to scale . |
| 24 | As I had n't been invited to that , I had to conclude that I was there to work , wearing my professional hat . |
| 25 | Leith was about to state , quite forcefully , that she was there to work , not to flirt with every male who chanced his arm , when suddenly she realised that if he knew she had worked for Vasey 's for only a short while then there was a fair chance either someone from Personnel , or Mr Catham , had given him a brief run-down on each employee before he met them . |
| 26 | The strike had ended soon after he had commenced this venture so he was again at work during the day , as a machinist , but after getting home at 6 p.m. and hastily eating a meal , he went into his ( or should I say , the communal ) bedroom , and worked long into the night . |