Example sentences of "[was/were] work on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ten years later , in the late 1960s , some 600 of CN ET 's 3100 personnel were working on space research . |
| 2 | Yes , and she phoned me and she said I feel as though I dropped out of the bottom of the world she said , you know , I just do n't see anybody , I said well of course you were working on Mondays , you see she used to have Mondays to herself and I would often go round on a Monday afternoon and , we , we could talk , but that 's gone and I said I ca n't run in at half past five when you get home from school and chat to you because Ned will be coming home at six and I do n't want to be there all that often when he 's there erm its you know , its just happened and I also thought to myself and I 'm probably going to move a lot further away then Fen Lane . |
| 3 | I thought they were working on train ? |
| 4 | Leder and his colleagues were working on tumour viruses that cause cancer , when they noticed that one of the mice infected with the virus had a limb deformity . |
| 5 | The two friends stayed at the Tuscan Villa because the music room had two Bechstein grands and the couple were working on duets . |
| 6 | Forty metres below London , in hot and grimy conditions , tunnelers were working on Thames Water 's £250 million ring main round the capital . |
| 7 | For twenty years I had trained my mind that when not preoccupied with washing up , searching the window frames for rotting wood or examining my bank statements , it was to work on plots , characters and the general creation of fiction . |
| 8 | While running LoPresti Piper Engineering at Vero Beach Roy LoPresti was working on plans to relaunch production of a much updated and aerodynamically improved version of the Comanche — subsequently abandoned in the face of Piper 's continuing financial difficulties . |
| 9 | I will go to see Ken Hurren first thing tomorrow morning and tell him that Summerchild was working on defence . |
| 10 | Just as Tite himself , it occurs to me , is going to be doing when he goes into the witness-box at Summerchild 's inquest later that summer and tells the Coroner — I turn back in my file to the copy I took of the cutting — that Summerchild was working on conditions of employment in the Civil Service at the time of his death . |
| 11 | She was having a party and struck my name off the guest list and Carla , who was my girlfriend then , was working on Londoner 's Diary . |
| 12 | She was working on TV and had wads of money . |
| 13 | Later that year , when the writer was working on Loot , the idea first came up for the two of them to work together . |
| 14 | Rambaldi meanwhile was working on King Kong Lives ( 1986 ) , which cost the same as Alien and took just $1.7 million in rentals , besides winning no Oscars . |
| 15 | ‘ It was when I was working on Wildlife Safari to Argentina , filming in a subtropical province in the north , that I got this lump on my back . |
| 16 | A session with Bakha was said to have taken place while Kylie was working on Neighbours . |
| 17 | In fact he was working on slides of animal tissue which was fixed , sliced , stained and therefore as dead as a doornail . |
| 18 | By 1789 he was employing five assistants in London , his brother Robert , a solicitor in Edinburgh , was attending to his Scottish business , and in spite of his Presbyterian background he was working on Sundays to keep up with the pressure of work . |
| 19 | The 23-year-old was working on designs for two Theatr Clywd , Mold , productions and was just sticking together his model box when I telephoned . |
| 20 | My father again had to part with his men , but , armed with a shovel and a pickaxe he was working on Rye marshes to put up defences against an invasion . |
| 21 | ‘ This is great , Ilona , ’ he says , leaning forward , ‘ because when I was working on Wall Street trying to get someone to risk his money on cotton , I would say , ‘ Bob , how can you get hurt by cotton ? |