Example sentences of "were working on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The poem we were working on was one of several left unfinished , but I can quote here the first three verses , for their expression of our condition at that time , our sense of being so close together that we were utterly apart from all else : |
| 2 | Sony had given no indication they were working on — or intended to work on any electronic stills camera . ’ |
| 3 | They did n't want his help , each one told him straight , because by the time he was briefed into what they were working on , then he would be away and they 'd have wasted the classroom time . |
| 4 | The feasibility studies were very hastily carried out , however , and financial assumptions which district planners were working on were unclear . |
| 5 | Carry the Lecfile with you , containing perhaps two or three of the last sheets that you were working on at the previous lecture . |
| 6 | I can not remember half of the astonishingly clever ideas which they were working on . |
| 7 | The management er sought to change the type of incentive scheme that we were working on . |
| 8 | Then , just when she was feeling really at ease with him , he stepped back a pace , came in on the tail-end of her report on the new extra-calorie meal schedule they were working on , and undermined her equilibrium totally with the words , ‘ I like the way the dappled light is playing on your hair . |
| 9 | Painters Robin Phelps , from Brockweir , in Gloucestershire , and Eric Sullivan , from Tintern , in Gwent , were killed when the gantry they were working on collapsed in September nineteen ninety . |
| 10 | Cos we were working on about eight hundred pounds a month which is , I du n no , maybe ten thousand pounds a year which |