Example sentences of "[subord] he was working [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 's enthusiasm for virology went back to his postdoctoral years at The Rockefeller Institute where he was working under the tutelage of . |
| 2 | ‘ If he was working for the Private Office in South London on the afternoon in question I should be very surprised indeed . ’ |
| 3 | She could imagine that Tom would go out and leave his door open if he was working about the place but not if he had quitted it , and in winter it seemed foolhardy to say the least to leave it and let the cold air invade the house . |
| 4 | Hayling had been excluded from becoming a Founder first because of his job policing the project for the GLC grant , and then because he was working for the company . |
| 5 | Mills was probably murdered because he was working for the KGB . |
| 6 | Er I remember it so vividly because it , at our house it was quite er an event because mother and father were so Labour and my brother , who erm he , I do n't know why , he 's not alive today and I ca n't so I , and I 've no idea , I do n't think I ever asked him because I 'd be too young , but I do know that the friction was in the house because he was working for the Conservative and she was the first woman that we ever elected er she , this , this lady did . |
| 7 | Even while he was working on the first draft of the poem , he was writing to Martin Browne about all the engagements ahead . |
| 8 | Even a cursory glance is enough to show that Picasso had several changes of mind while he was working on the canvas . |
| 9 | And the visual evidence all goes to prove that this took place while he was working on the Demoiselles , probably in June . |
| 10 | The animal had been in the garage while he was working on the car with the engine running . |
| 11 | In fact the script , which saw American lawyer Thomas Ward cleared of the charge of stealing £5.2 million from Guinness while he was working on the brewing giant 's takeover of Distillers Group , did little more than tie up the loose ends of the storyline . |
| 12 | While he was working for the K.K.K. , he sent the pips to frighten those three men . |
| 13 | The raw material of his experience was transmuted into story — for whether he was working in the poetic or prose medium , Masefield was above all a story-teller . |
| 14 | But he mentioned in an essay the degree to which certain forms of anaemia were conducive to such creation ; and , in our conversation that day , he described how , when he was working on The Waste Land in Switzerland in 1921 ( ‘ by the waters of Leman ’ ) , he felt at one moment that his brain was going to burst . |