Example sentences of "was work on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I TRY TO WORK AGAINST THE WAY I WAS TAUGHT , WHICH WAS TO WORK ON THE PAINTING AS A WHOLE AND BRING THINGS UP TO A CERTAIN DEGREE OF FINISH |
| 2 | I try to work against the way I was taught , which was to work on the paintings as a whole and bring things up to a certain degree of finish . |
| 3 | Using just four rows of pattern , this sample was worked on the Singer Big Nine and after the first four rows was extremely easy to work . |
| 4 | Pressure was worked on the scale of ‘ megabars ’ . |
| 5 | At the time , Dr. Zúñiga was working on the case of student Ernesto Castillo Páez , who ‘ disappeared ’ after he was reportedly detained by police on 21 October 1990 in Lima . |
| 6 | Richard Ogden was working on the Motors with a lawyer in New York , Charles Levison , who later became the managing director of Arista records in the UK and managing director of Warner Brothers . |
| 7 | This is hardly surprising , since its gestation period comprised the years in which Eliot was working on the Notes . |
| 8 | Two weeks later , the day before the accident , Mr Hemingway was working on the signal again . |
| 9 | It was Sunday and Mark was working on the address he was to give at Trinity College , Dublin . |
| 10 | The Dictionary had reached its sixth edition and Miller was working on the seventh , revising it to incorporate the Linnaean system of classification . |
| 11 | ON TUESDAY 8 October 1957 , a physicist was working on the No.1 ‘ pile ’ at the Windscale atomic energy establishment in Cumberland . |
| 12 | That year the twenty-five-year-old Cocteau was working on the book of Parade , Diaghilev 's controversial new ballet which was to express the new spirit in the arts , with music by Satie and Cubist costumes and sets by Picasso . |
| 13 | He was working on the Saturday and took a stroke on the Sunday . ’ |
| 14 | At about the time when Becquerel was working on the radiation from uranium , G. T. Beatson , a surgeon in Glasgow , observed that the inoperable breast cancers of three patients underwent regression after he had removed their ovaries . |
| 15 | All this time I was working on the hero 's book . |
| 16 | He was working on the restoration of St. John 's Cross in the Infirmary . |
| 17 | Stripped film from the security camera that videos customers in the Praed Street shop , Took away the staff roster , which reveals who was working on the crucial day , Removed the shop 's till rolls , Attempted to pursuade the female member of staff to forget Mr Onanuga told her he served Mr Lamont on the Monday , and Refused to allow the woman to keep a copy of her signed statement because , it said , it could be handed to a newspaper . |
| 18 | Fire officer Stewart Reeve said the engineer was working on the freezer when he was overcome by gas . |
| 19 | Perhaps he was working on the island again . |
| 20 | She wrote a long and intimate letter to Eleanor describing her state of mind and her new and disturbing sense of isolation , but Eleanor was working on the first draft of her first novel , and replied at length but not to the point . |
| 21 | Others suggested that such functionality would be integrated at the motherboard level , and that Sun was working on the technology independently to its current emulation partner , the UK 's Insignia Software of High Wycombe . |
| 22 | Michel Laclotte came at the time he was working on the Musée D'Orsay . |
| 23 | We met in 1963 when I was working on the Daily Express 's William Hickey column , and Peter was writing on the Sunday Express . |
| 24 | They were standing at the desk by now and the girl was working on the bill . |
| 25 | There is no doubt that in The Family Reunion he was attempting that re-integration of religious and secular drama which he discussed at the time he was working on the play . |
| 26 | Even while he was working on the first draft of the poem , he was writing to Martin Browne about all the engagements ahead . |
| 27 | He was part of a delegation that went to the BBC to complain about proposed cuts to the Third Programme , the " cultural " channel of the broadcasting service ; he was working on the Commission for the Revised Psalter ; he was asked to give evidence to the Parliamentary Commission on Obscene Publications ( he had had very little experience of pornographic literature , he told the members of that commission , and his own work was " quite anodyne " ) . |
| 28 | Philip was working on the electrical wiring of the top floor with the easy-paced contemplative manner of a workman . |
| 29 | I remember when I was working on the building sites in Manchester , the Irish lads called onions " navvies ' apples " and some of them would peel them and eat them whole like fruit . |
| 30 | I came down when my husband was working on the factory site then as I say , prior to us coming to live here this was had n't been even built so we 've seen it grow from the floor to what it is today , you know ? |