Example sentences of "he was working [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | At the end of the second world war he was working as a docker in Bangkok 's harbour . |
| 3 | He was working as a trainee film editor with Ulster Television in Belfast and , like most young men , pursuing an active life of sin when he felt the Lord speaking to him . |
| 4 | At the time he wrote Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em he was working as a cleaner in a cinema on the Isle of Wight . |
| 5 | John Hey 's eldest son , Melling ( 1808–65 ) , was described as a fancy weaver when his elder children were baptised between 1836 and 1842 , but when his last child was baptised in 1846 he was working as a labourer and in the 1851 census returns his occupation was given as groom . |
| 6 | He was working as a civil engineer in the area after moving from Dumbarton , Scotland . |
| 7 | Colin Mackie , 26 , a self-confessed former heroin addict , told the court that Murray had injected him with heroin during drug-taking sessions while he was working as a tyre fitter with Kenway . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Mills was probably murdered because he was working for the KGB . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ If he was working for the Private Office in South London on the afternoon in question I should be very surprised indeed . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ All he told me was that he was working for the Sovbloc desk at Six , and they were looking for a deserter , but he did n't even have Blagg 's name . |
| 13 | While he was working for the K.K.K. , he sent the pips to frighten those three men . |
| 14 | He was working for an engineering firm and met Herbert in the course of business . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | As he watched Hopper work , Nicholson came to the conclusion that he was working with a genius , flawed perhaps , but a man whose artistry was , and still is , quite awesome . |
| 17 | But by 1872 he was working with The Northern Echo . |
| 18 | Tom grinned an enormous grin across the table and said , ‘ You 're cheating , because a ) what are your natural circumstances if it 's not the very existence of coal , b ) I do n't believe Engels said it at all and , c ) even if he did , that does n't make it true because he was working with an outmoded scientific model . |
| 19 | And he said he was working with an old fellow which is getting on in age and he was quite absent minded and he said , I was about thirty feet from the ground on a ledge er filling er s a hole ready for shot for blasting and the old fellow was about twenty feet higher than him and then he was ss er whatsit another hole and then a at the top of the chamber there 's a little hole , he said , like a roof we call it which is a little passage that goes up into the next floor and then we used that as an escape route he did n't have to go far . |
| 20 | The slim volume was unearthedby Desmond Hawkins , a Hardy scholar , while he was working on a biography of his hero . |
| 21 | Manley was aware that the high cost of modern anaesthetic apparatus was often prohibitive for hospitals in developing countries , and at the time of his death he was working on a prototype of an inexpensive , but effective ventilator for the Third World . |
| 22 | Quite by chance , and while he was working on a different problem , an Australian psychiatrist , J. F. Cade , discovered that , in guinea pigs , lithium salts made the brain less excitable . |
| 23 | Ironically , the most successful and varied stage of Hardy 's architectural career came under Crickmay between 1869 and 1872 , despite the fact that by this time he was working on a freelance basis while writing his first novels . |
| 24 | I was in the Biology Department yesterday and Bradley said the report was n't ready ; he was working on a case for the defence . |
| 25 | He was working on a novel set in New York , The New Rythum ( fragments published in 1962 ) , when he died in Rome 21 May 1926 . |
| 26 | While he was imprisoned in 1534 he was working on a map of the Holy Land which was sent to Cromwell 's confidant , Rowland Lee [ q.v. ] , in an attempt to secure his release . |
| 27 | Matthew had a drawing board on the table by the window , where he was working on a set of plans . |
| 28 | Dublin-born textual scholar Danis Rose discovered James Joyce 's ‘ lost novel ’ while he was working on a critical edition of Finnegans Wake . |
| 29 | Simultaneously , he was working on a TV series , Dick and the Duchess and in Share My Lettuce at night . |
| 30 | He was working on a building site at Middle Barton in North Oxfordshire when a concrete mixer rolled back toward a workman . |