Sentence examples for work in a pit from inspiring English sources

Piotr Sulek found work in a pit at Ashington alongside Northumberland natives.

They were then left alone and were shown a 2-min UNICEF promotional video, showing a child from a resource-limited country (Bangladesh), forced to work in a stone pit instead of going to school, due to poverty.

Coyle and I would paint these pictures that to us were pretty impossible: a guy working in a pit with bats and maniacs tearing at his feet.

Although it sounds stupid now, this was the first time I had really worked in a pit, and, for the first hour or so, I couldn't get over how dark it was.

While she said she missed working in a pit, which here was converted to fit a hydraulic system for some of the massive sets in "Spider-Man," Ms. Grigsby said that sophisticated audio and video equipment "make the music feel and sound like it's being played right by the stage".

Ceri Thompson was a miner for 16 years and worked in a pit near Pontypridd.

DeWyze worked in a pit where euro-dollar futures are swapped, collecting trading cards and fetching coffee for his boss.

— Under a blistering sun, Nicholas M. Luccketti swatted at mosquitoes as he watched his archaeology team at work in a shallow pit on a hillside above the shimmering waters of Albemarle Sound.

They spend most of their time hard at work in an open pit behind my apartment building, which will soon be home to yet another skyscraper.Signs advertise women's salons on the buildings above me, but only men's salons occupy the brightly-lit stores at ground level, open to the gazes of those who pass.

They go through hours and hours of work cooking it in a pit in the garden.

She probably saw the brothers working in a saw pit — you can imagine one brother below and one above and the one below getting sawdust in his eyes — and she must have thought: "This is a terribly inefficient system.