Example sentences of "was [adv] working [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE PATHOLOGIST WAS already working on the post-mortem . |
| 2 | Gray was already working on the second edition when he caught smallpox from his nephew , developed the confluent form of the disease , and died at 8 Wilton Street , Belgrave Square , London , 8 June 1871 , aged thirty-six according to the obituary notices of the Lancet and the Proceedings of the Royal Society , which raises the question of his date of birth , usually stated as 1827 . |
| 3 | By that stage I was already working at the Canadian Embassy , and I let the staff buy some of the pictures from me , but again it was very cheaply . |
| 4 | Tuesday was the Music Exam which was not difficult as I was already working at the Theory of Music at the Royal College . |
| 5 | Dishy Malcolm was already working in the office , but Doreen had not yet arrived . |
| 6 | Henry 's mind was still working on the possibility of marrying Alice of France to another of his sons . |
| 7 | ‘ 'Then some asshole of a journalist printed a story that he was still working for the Company and a couple of weeks later the Red Brigade snatched both of them . |
| 8 | Charlie had not yet been found a ward partner and was still working in the Hall . |
| 9 | She was still working in the wool shop by day and driving an ambulance at night . |
| 10 | The five storey corn mill , built in 1820 , was still working in the 1970's when the house and mill were discovered by sculptor Anne Campbell . |
| 11 | she said I was n't four years old and she was still working in the box office . |
| 12 | He was also working for the Department of Archaeology and the Museum and , greatest profit of all , teaching English to the daughter of a rich immigrant Hungarian Jewish family who paid him , for just two lessons a week , more money than his poor father had earned by a hard week 's slog in the docks . |
| 13 | He was also working for the British Council , writing for foreign magazines and attending functions organized by the Anglo-Swedish Society or the Norwegian Institute , as well as seeing American G.I.s stationed in London — it seemed to him on occasions that every American sergeant wrote verse . |
| 14 | One of the men from the pub ( the Yasser Arafat look-alike ) was also working for the school . |
| 15 | After some long while of freelancing , Cara was now working for the superior bi-monthly magazine Verity . |
| 16 | Karen was now working during the daytime again , and on the evening of November 6th she passed the scanner on her way out of the laboratory . |
| 17 | This ‘ rothaariges Jungling ’ was the twenty-three year-old Frits Lugt who was then working for the auctioneers Frederik Müller et Cie and the message led to an invitation to visit Dr Max Friedländer in that great training ground for art historians , the Print Room of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum . |
| 18 | He was much closer to his father than the rest of us , for he was then working alongside the old man in a tailoring factory ( a job he despised ) and was mixing in bad company . |
| 19 | Mat. 's door , in my own mind I had been slung out for encouraging unseemly behaviour from a male patient and was miserably working on the choice of my next career . |
| 20 | One of them was actually working for the intelligence services . |
| 21 | Having outlined the expectations and experience of practitioners with respect to the care programme approach , the following section looks at available information about how it was actually working in the three districts concerned . |