Example sentences of "[conj] working at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The islanders are industrious ; they are either out at work or working at home . |
| 2 | Many of those at the foot of the scale , whose substance was equalled by that of superior labourers , must have occupied very small holdings , and had to eke out a livelihood with occasional labouring or working at some by-employment ; they have aptly been termed ‘ cottage farmers ’ . |
| 3 | All Indian weavers , whether employed in large manufactories or working at their own family looms , are under contract to one of the major distributors , who tell them what sizes , colours and designs to weave . |
| 4 | The associated additional cost arises from either people and equipment standing idle while instructions are awaited , or working at a reduced rate on other activities , therefore increasing durations of these activities . |
| 5 | However , the burgeoning folk revival of the 50s and 60s offered her a welcome release , and eventually she won a respected place in the circuit of folk festivals and folksong clubs , singing material not only from her mother 's repertoire but also from a personal ‘ collection ’ gathered when hawking , or working at the tatties . |
| 6 | Miss Brechin for instance , although working at Morrison & Gibb most of her life , had also had spells at Clark 's , Constable 's , Oliver & Boyd and Simpson 's Label . |
| 7 | Therefore , you should train to lift the level of aerobic endurance by selecting a training routine and working at it until your pulse rate is raised to the top of the aerobic band . |
| 8 | Lord Home belied his reputation for laziness — the commonly-held view of the elder statesman , as the British prototype for Ronald Reagan , did n't hold water : up and working at 6.30 every morning , even if he did spend uncommon amounts of time in trout streams . |
| 9 | By 1916 Kisling , who had served in the French Foreign Legion , was discharged wounded and working at his studio , No. 3 Rue Joseph Bara , and Modigliani often worked there with him . |
| 10 | Family Credit , for families with children who are low paid and working at least 24 hours a week ; 120 thousand lone parent families were receiving Family Credit in September 1989 . |
| 11 | I saw women dealing with having kids and working at the same time and the kids were happy because of the closeness with their mother . |
| 12 | New hospitals are open and working at full pressure . |
| 13 | And working at the Shakespeare School of English does n't exactly hinder me in that direction . |
| 14 | Anyway , I 'd been staying with them in darkest Kensington , at Mr Gibbon 's very grand , three-storeyed town-house in Ascot Square , just off Addison Road , and working at a branch of Mondo-Food on Victoria Street ( they were trying a new line in Haggisburgers at the time and the manager thought my accent would help shift them . |
| 15 | So I was still in Berry then and working at the grammar school , so we had to walk across all three causeways for some time . |
| 16 | The mentality which is good at ‘ arrangiarsi ’ is also brilliant at taking risks , investing in 21st century technology and working at a tremendous metabolic rate . |
| 17 | She was n't at all sure she wanted to be shown this short-cut through the woods , although Isabelle must have used it many times , when she was living at Les Hiboux and working at the château . |
| 18 | is in her second year at college and , between studying and working at Sainsbury 's she likes to enter cookery competitions . |
| 19 | To be fair to be fair to him I think that he would erm he 's set his heart on going and working at the lawn mower place on the production line |
| 20 | But working at Ace Place proved that this joke business is no nine-to-five job . |
| 21 | Gombrich sombrely recalled hearing about Auschwitz while working at the BBC Monitoring Service during the war : ‘ They claimed at that time — I remember that as if it were yesterday — they claimed that at least five million people had been killed , and I remember a colleague of mine coming to me to check this figure , because it seemed impossible . |
| 22 | Some of the more important include George Blake , who worked for MI6 ( see Chapter 2 ) ; John Cairncross , who betrayed Ultra secrets from the Government Code & Cipher School ( GCCS ) at Bletchley Park during the war to the Russians ; John Vassall , a sad homosexual who gave away naval secrets while working at the Admiralty ; Frank Bossard , who gave the Russians details of British and American guided weapons systems ( which must have amused them greatly as the Russians were far ahead of the West at the time ) ; and William Marshall , who had worked as a cipher clerk at the British Embassy in Moscow . |
| 23 | While working at Lyons Corner House in April 1942 , he came out in spots . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , while working at Southall in 1936 , both were knocked down by a private car and seriously injured . |
| 25 | An important step in establishing this was taken by Einstein in 1905 ( that amazing year in which , while working at the patent office in Berne , he also invented special relativity and explained Brownian motion ) . |
| 26 | While working at Okeover , Staffordshire ( c .1745 ) , on decorative plaster-work , chimney-pieces , and picture-frames , Stanley left England suddenly in October 1746 , on being offered the post of court sculptor to Christian VI of Denmark . |
| 27 | And she told me that , while working at another bank , she had once been summoned to an office four flights away . |
| 28 | The spy , referred to in the report only by his US code name " Donald F. " , had been recruited by the US Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) in 1961 while working at the Soviet mission to the United Nations in New York . |
| 29 | Keenan had been kidnapped on April 11 , 1986 , while working at the American University of Beirut . |
| 30 | While working at the cinema , for instance , he tried to repair a cistern and ended up flooding the place . |