Example sentences of "i [be] working [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first four volumes have been publishes and I am working on the final volume , covering chiefly the First World War . |
| 2 | I am working on the contract for the rest of the Grapevine package and will be sending you ( and John Statham ? ) drafts for your consideration in the near future . |
| 3 | Having made the Hannover picture I thought it would be nice to have a smaller version , so I now have a two-metre square version on canvas , also painted with Scanachrome , and I am working on the area of the television screen in a more painterly manner than I was able to use on the large one . |
| 4 | ‘ I am working with the local police , yes . |
| 5 | Let him go back to the corner thinking , ‘ I 'm working with the boss . ’ ’ |
| 6 | I 'm working on the premise we have no friends anywhere . |
| 7 | And erm the only other outstanding sponsor from last year was Northern Rock and that has been a bit of a qu a problem because er it 's , we have n't had a closing gala event which might attract them but just recently erm Paul who as you know performed last year with his band so er well er is , had rang me and said that they are doing something in Venice and they could in fact take the boat to Hull rather than to Dover and bring it here and I 'm , so I 'm working on the assumption that we might have that . |
| 8 | I 'm working on the production of a culture from placental tissue which can give reliable results in toxicity tests . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm working on the principle that most people are okay unless they get muroculous with drink , when they become arse-holes ; you 're behaving like an arse-hole now , so maybe drink 'll make you okay . ’ |
| 10 | Well at the moment I 'm working on the mechanism action of vitamin B twelve dependent enzymes . |
| 11 | I 'm working at the same time . |
| 12 | I 'm working at the big hospital in Port au Prince , and I 'm doing some work for my book . ’ |
| 13 | We have things like appraisals to do , she has e I mean I ca n't tell you , all I can is I 'm working at the side of her , she works all the time , she 's very fast , she 's very intelligent . |
| 14 | I 'm working at the weekend |
| 15 | It is n't wo , oh yeah , I 'm working by the way , you know . |
| 16 | When I 'm working in the theatre , I tend to steer clear of TV dramas , though I have a soft spot for P D James and Ruth Rendell thrillers . |
| 17 | no good for me because I 'm working in the evening but Minster F M has a a list of What 's On that night every night . |
| 18 | I was working at the Open University as Pro-Vice-Chancellor in charge of student affairs . |
| 19 | ‘ I was working at the store and I was pretty much going nowhere , from eleven to fifteen . |
| 20 | ( I have to say I was n't in the room with him thought I was working at the Daily Mail at the time . ) |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Here was silly old me thinking I was working FOR the fantastic IPC . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I was working for the company er , in Leicester , called making cotton lisles for twelve years , fifteen years ago . |
| 28 | At that time I was working for the LNER on the Tyneside electrified lines , and had had a gentle hint from my then boss that he would like to know what Mr Rostron was up to . |
| 29 | which had been occupied by soldiers , this was our first hut , well by then I was working for the Corporation and of course by virtue of my job with the chief architect I got this house and we were offered this house about two years later for two thousand pounds and we said oh we would n't be staying here for more than ten years in any case and we would n't be bothered to buy it , but then my husband started in business you see soon after he came back and we eventually got the shop and , of course it 's very convenient because we 're only a stone 's throw from the shop you see , so we stayed here |
| 30 | All this time I was working on the hero 's book . |