Example sentences of "[was/were] work on [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men were working on a maintenance gantry suspended beneath the bridge when the gantry collapsed throwing the men more than a hundred feet into the river below . |
| 2 | ‘ Capron said he knew you were working on the Mills case and that we must have discussed it together . ’ |
| 3 | He was working on a building site at Middle Barton in North Oxfordshire when a concrete mixer rolled back toward a workman . |
| 4 | When World Cup fever was on us in 1990 , Lisa was working on a combination problem with different football strips . |
| 5 | She was working on a water-colour painting of Carewscourt . |
| 6 | I was working on a street theatre mission in Bristol when the call came , getting in at 1.00 am after doing gospel presentations in the clubs and discotheques at night . |
| 7 | Bang a drum and it answers back , so I was working on a street market at the time and I went and bought a drum and started to learn . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | At around the same time , the plaintiff was working on an IBM version of his program for the UK market . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I came down when my husband was working on the factory site then as I say , prior to us coming to live here this was had n't been even built so we 've seen it grow from the floor to what it is today , you know ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | My one success is with Michael Treacher , who Killick said was working on the comparability report with Summerchild . |