Example sentences of "when [pers pn] was working [prep] " in BNC.

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1 A S. I remember when I was working as a dogsbody in the 59 Theatre Company in Manchester a group of Central School students came to be the spirits in a production of The Tempest and these were Pisk trained and had , it seemed to me then , a marvellous range of body language .
2 I had the idea for this design one day when I was working on some embroidery .
3 We met in 1963 when I was working on the Daily Express 's William Hickey column , and Peter was writing on the Sunday Express .
4 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 .
5 ‘ It was when I was working on Wildlife Safari to Argentina , filming in a subtropical province in the north , that I got this lump on my back .
6 I I I got a little bit involved in that a few years ago , when I was working on it , having had some scepticism before-hand .
7 The project began back in 1976 when I was working for Capital Radio , London 's independent local radio station .
8 ‘ My only real previous acting experience was when I was working for Walt Disney Productions and had to visit sick children in hospital dressed up in a Pluto costume .
9 It was when I was working for Walt Disney , so it 'll be two years ago .
10 Gail , 41 , who met Ian when she was working at the American Hospital in Beirut , grew up nearby .
11 And one day when she was working in her little garden slithering between the vine yams there came a green snake .
12 There is a special innocence in Doisneau 's photographs of children , especially during the years when he was working with a twin-lens reflex camera held at waist level .
13 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 .
14 It was taken in 1902 , when he was working at an engineering factory in West London .
15 As always , he did not think the lectures successful although he had tried to avoid all social engagements in February when he was working on them , he had still been distracted by rehearsals for The Family Reunion .
16 Partly Byzantine and partly Romanesque , it was altered in the Gothic period by Arnolfo di Cambio when he was working on the cathedral .
17 At the age of 12 , Kitto was taken on by his father to assist him in his trade , and it was shortly afterwards when he was working for his father slating a new roof that he lost his footing in the act of stepping off a ladder and fell thirty-five feet to the ground .
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