Example sentences of "i [was/were] work [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you and I were working for an organization which gave say half a million to charity , our , I mean correct me if I 'm wrong , but I , I 'm sure our temptation would be to say how can we promote this giving in the media in order , let's be honest about it , to make our , us look good , partly that would be it . |
| 2 | When I was working at a hospice I followed up bereaved people who it was felt might need some support . |
| 3 | I was working at a hospital in the out-patients ' department recently and when I was leaving at the end of my shift one day , I saw the following message pinned on the notice board , obviously from an extremely irate patient : ‘ Time is a great healer . |
| 4 | When I was working at a Polytechnic , we were once required to submit the areas of current research interest for storage on central records . |
| 5 | I was working at the Open University as Pro-Vice-Chancellor in charge of student affairs . |
| 6 | ‘ I was working at the store and I was pretty much going nowhere , from eleven to fifteen . |
| 7 | ( I have to say I was n't in the room with him thought I was working at the Daily Mail at the time . ) |
| 8 | till we got to near the den and do that and we spent er a year and a half there and all the time we were watching this house being built , because I was working at the Corporation and the number of people of the Corporation from the tea boy cadet down came up to see this , this and that , was nobody 's business , mm , without , we enjoyed it , it was quite funny really it is |
| 9 | I have , I did have experience with cheques and credit cards , but that was when I was working at the chemist , but now we do n't take cheques . |
| 10 | M.E. Railton , Harcourt Street , Hopetown , Darlington : I was working at the Broadway Cafe in Darlington when one of the customers came in and said the King had died . |
| 11 | Well I became aware of the University of Sussex when the Gardener Centre first opened I think , because at that time I was working at the Arts Council of Great Britain and it was erm an innovative scheme which attracted a great deal of national interest , and we were naturally invited down to have a look at it , both the design and the programme that was being planned for the opening season at that time . |
| 12 | IN 1989 I was working for a community video project called Women 's Media Resources . |
| 13 | I was working for a yarn firm who had just gone into the marketing of coned yarns — unfortunately they did not stay the course . |
| 14 | I remember a graphic example of this when I was working for a blessedly short period as a Russian interpreter in Berlin in 1946 . |
| 15 | Here was silly old me thinking I was working FOR the fantastic IPC . |
| 16 | Whilst I was working for the council , someone came to ask and we had some new o new officer appointed and he was very worried about getting ca er p permission from the council to launch a sewer scheme that was going to cost a quarter of a million pounds , a very large amount in those days . |
| 17 | I was working for the company er , in Leicester , called making cotton lisles for twelve years , fifteen years ago . |
| 18 | At that time I was working for the LNER on the Tyneside electrified lines , and had had a gentle hint from my then boss that he would like to know what Mr Rostron was up to . |
| 19 | which had been occupied by soldiers , this was our first hut , well by then I was working for the Corporation and of course by virtue of my job with the chief architect I got this house and we were offered this house about two years later for two thousand pounds and we said oh we would n't be staying here for more than ten years in any case and we would n't be bothered to buy it , but then my husband started in business you see soon after he came back and we eventually got the shop and , of course it 's very convenient because we 're only a stone 's throw from the shop you see , so we stayed here |
| 20 | A large sketchbook especially put aside for this project allowed me to work freely , and clear my head of the fact that I was working to a commission . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And , well , I was n't doing anything , so I just started writing songs again — but this time they were guitar-based songs and I was working on a Portastudio . |
| 23 | While Rubbing Along in Burmese was being printed , I was working on a bigger handbook for learning the language , under the title of Three Months ' Hard Labour . |
| 24 | At the same time I was working on a small English-Burmese dictionary with about 3,500 of the most common words likely to be needed by government workers going back into Burma when liberation should come . |
| 25 | I was working on a basic cable pattern , but now I 'm wondering if there are other clever cables to be made this way . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ A smalltime crook who got caught in the crossfire when I was working on a story a couple of years ago . |
| 28 | Colette and Bernard self-published works about matters holistic and mystical , and Ken relaxed when I told him I was working on a thriller . |
| 29 | I was working on a different magazine then . |
| 30 | All this time I was working on the hero 's book . |