Example sentences of "[was/were] working the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , faced with the Anglo-Irish accord , the three unionist leaders were again united and Paisley and Molyneaux were working the main street of Bangor to boost Kilfedder 's support . |
| 2 | In 1834 Playne and Smith were working the mill and in that year , with sometimes inconsistent water supplies and the need to improve efficiency , the engine house was built and a beam engine installed . |
| 3 | Alstone Upper Mill was worked during the 1860s by Elijah Snowsell , although by the 1890s William Ride and Co were working the mill , using steam power . |
| 4 | Tonight , four of Katherine 's special girls were working the party , each one fully acquainted with her target . |
| 5 | Before exploring the history of the dispute itself , it is worth pausing to ask why no men were working the Monotype machines . |
| 6 | Mistakenly , he thought that the figures he saw high up on the furthest rocks were working the rich secrets of the plumbago or wadd mine . |
| 7 | After all , you were working the wrong side of the fence yourself , were n't you ? |
| 8 | The worst part about it was that it stopped right in the line of flight of some bees who were working the field of clover . |
| 9 | Roe and Co. were working the eastern side . |
| 10 | It 'd be better if you were working the Monday and Tu and have |
| 11 | So and you were working the variable we were working with is not X but T. |
| 12 | Once I had a rather nerve-racking experience with him when I was working the horse rake in the lower field . |
| 13 | Second , that having worked hard in the acting profession all my life , the last thing I would enjoy was working the clock round every summer when I could be sunbathing and swimming in Bala Lake . |
| 14 | In 1981 I was working the summer in Tenerife as a PR and when we got bored of the clubs , we would go to the beach at about 3am . |
| 15 | The malt was working the colour back to her cheeks . |
| 16 | In an early draft of the play upon which he was working the elderly public man is compared to a silkworm who has chewed the bitter leaves of the mulberry all his life . |
| 17 | It had buried its adze in his fontanelle , and was working the thing backwards and forwards methodically to split open his skull . |