Example sentences of "was working [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | She could imagine that Tom would go out and leave his door open if he was working about the place but not if he had quitted it , and in winter it seemed foolhardy to say the least to leave it and let the cold air invade the house . |
2 | John Talbot , of receivers Arthur Andersen , told the news conference : ‘ Everyone was working through the night to complete the transaction . ’ |
3 | He put down a volume of Hume — he no longer read the daily papers , but was working through the world 's philosophers , from Plato onwards , and had now reached the Scottish humanists . |
4 | M.E. Railton , Harcourt Street , Hopetown , Darlington : I was working at the Broadway Cafe in Darlington when one of the customers came in and said the King had died . |
5 | On the morning of 9 January 19571 was working at the Treasury when a message was delivered summoning me to Number 10 at 3 o'clock . |
6 | In 1911 , when he was working at the Rockefeller Institute in New York , he described the transmission of a malignant new growth by means of a cell-free filtrate . |
7 | I supervised her professional training while she was working at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute at Penicuik , and appointed her as an Assistant Librarian at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh just over a year ago . |
8 | ‘ I was working at the store and I was pretty much going nowhere , from eleven to fifteen . |
9 | It is not as if Eurotunnel was working at the leading-edge of technological innovation . |
10 | Although Mum was working at the fish shop she did n't get much for her labours , sometimes only some fish and chips . |
11 | Well I became aware of the University of Sussex when the Gardener Centre first opened I think , because at that time I was working at the Arts Council of Great Britain and it was erm an innovative scheme which attracted a great deal of national interest , and we were naturally invited down to have a look at it , both the design and the programme that was being planned for the opening season at that time . |
12 | till we got to near the den and do that and we spent er a year and a half there and all the time we were watching this house being built , because I was working at the Corporation and the number of people of the Corporation from the tea boy cadet down came up to see this , this and that , was nobody 's business , mm , without , we enjoyed it , it was quite funny really it is |
13 | Only that amount which exceeds what would be spent on lunch if the employee was working at the office can even be considered . |
14 | Celia was working at the office on Saturday morning . |
15 | She was working at the Body Shop part-time , she 's back there three days working now or something . |
16 | The incident happened in February last year , while Frak was working at the Ashbury Lodge Nursing Home in Marlborough Road in Swindon . |
17 | I have , I did have experience with cheques and credit cards , but that was when I was working at the chemist , but now we do n't take cheques . |
18 | CD regarded as his ‘ masterpiece ’ the Transfiguration , the great altar-piece on which he was working at the time of his death ; but found his Incendo del Borgo , one of the frescos ( designed by Raphael but painted by collaborators ) in the Stanze of the Vatican , an ‘ incredible caricature ’ . |
19 | Of these the most important was Theodore Robinson , who did become a close friend of the painter , and who produced some paintings of the haystacks on which Monet was working at the time , which are almost indistinguishable from those of the master . |
20 | Given that Finn 's Hotel is where the author 's adored Nora Barnacle was working at the time they met , will it be a love story ? |
21 | There 'll be twenty people at least who could swear he was working at the time . |
22 | And in the week , I do n't think he was working at the time , but on a Sunday morning he 'd walk out of that terrace house and er he 'd be immaculate , absolutely . |
23 | Kiefer Sutherland was born on September 18 , 1966 , in St Marys Hospital , London ( where his father actor Donald Sutherland , was working at the time ) . |
24 | In the middle and upper classes at least , children stayed " children " for longer ( it was harder for a child to remain so when it was working at the age of 12 or 13 ) ; girls and young women were more shielded from experience outside the home ; parents were , on the whole , stricter and more repressive . |
25 | Stella , unwilling to change his design and substitute a different and cheaper material , was working for the museum on a ‘ sale or return ’ basis and has agreed not to charge the museum . |
26 | ‘ So why did Urquhart keep telling me Mills probably was working for the Russians ? ’ |
27 | Er I remember it so vividly because it , at our house it was quite er an event because mother and father were so Labour and my brother , who erm he , I do n't know why , he 's not alive today and I ca n't so I , and I 've no idea , I do n't think I ever asked him because I 'd be too young , but I do know that the friction was in the house because he was working for the Conservative and she was the first woman that we ever elected er she , this , this lady did . |
28 | ‘ All he told me was that he was working for the Sovbloc desk at Six , and they were looking for a deserter , but he did n't even have Blagg 's name . |
29 | She explained to Farmer Plant how she used the outjutting twin branches of the tree as her pony , as she had n't a real one to ride , and how she was working for the Pony Rider badge . |
30 | Whilst I was working for the council , someone came to ask and we had some new o new officer appointed and he was very worried about getting ca er p permission from the council to launch a sewer scheme that was going to cost a quarter of a million pounds , a very large amount in those days . |