Sentence examples for was off working from inspiring English sources

But a few years ago, when my husband was off working, I did try getting into grilling, but I stopped after I had my feelings hurt.

It has only been recently that Edberg has started to play on the seniors tour, but in the years when he was off working on his business affairs he clearly kept himself in good shape.

His apparent fondness for croquet is not one of them.Yet calls from Labour MPs for Mr Prescott to leave not just his house but also his job multiplied after the publication of pictures showing him leaning on a mallet at Dorneywood one sunny afternoon last week, while Tony Blair was off working in America.

Laughing at the wreck of her private parts, somehow, or at the size of her husband's — her husband was off working in Scotland at the time — laughing at her foolish pride in the baby and, worse than all this, obliging her to laugh, too.

Simon's writing partner Ed Burns, a brilliant, arrogant former policeman whose surveillance operations inspired the titular wire, usually shot down his bad ideas and came up with good ones by the truck-load; but he was off working on the Iraq war mini-series Generation Kill.

But Margaret was off working on a farm, so someone was dispatched to get her.

Sean Spicer is off working on a book.

She explains: "Every day when I am off working, B is offering Ben a life.

But persuading parents of this (or grandparents, if the parents are off working in cities) has not been easy.

"Their fathers were off working in a mine somewhere, able to come home only during the holidays.

He didn't — for years — even want a fan club, because when he's off work he wants to be off work.