Example sentences of "[vb past] be at work " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She 'd been at work , she said , when she went into labour . |
| 2 | She could not help but pause in her misery to be proud of the fact that , without her supervision , they had been at work in the garden . |
| 3 | They were all built around the 1720s and all have bold keystones and this dramatic and sometimes swooping raised centre : as though a countrified Vanbrugh or Thomas Archer had been at work . |
| 4 | I probably would not have done as well if I had been at work . |
| 5 | The full effects of the theological liberalism which had been at work since the nineteenth century came into their own in the English-speaking world after the publication of Honest to God ( Robinson 1963 ) . |
| 6 | With a bloody chin and an empty stomach , Manville had left his apartment already fuming , only to discover that vandals had been at work on his car during the night . |
| 7 | So — the grapevine had been at work , had it ? |
| 8 | Once inside those walls , it really was another world , more than fifteen square kilometres of streets bordered by the crumbling walls of houses , public buildings , cemeteries and reservoirs , some with bits and pieces of bone lying exposed where long-dead looters and grave-robbers had been at work . |
| 9 | But how much work was done , how much , if any , ore was obtained and how long the Quakers or Patrickson had been at work we may never discover . |