Example sentences of "they worked [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At great length , and with considerable idealistic heart-searching , they worked through the various problems and anomalies of the paper in comparison with its rival newspapers . |
| 2 | Mr Tommy Brennan , stewards ' convenor , says they worked during the 1984-1985 miners strike — incurring the wrath of the NUM — after management warned that any cool down would threaten the works . |
| 3 | They worked on the following week 's agenda until mid-morning , only breaking when Fred was called away . |
| 4 | In the back rooms of Whitehall , where they worked on the knotty problem of what to do in a national emergency , there was a file on the likely effects of German air attacks on London . |
| 5 | Every day they worked on the old scores . |
| 6 | Even when they worked in the same industry they were often employed in quite different processes : in copper mining for example at the surface not underground , and were separately waged . |
| 7 | They worked in the same office , they ate their lunch together , they went down the Lane on Sundays and the Roman Road on Fridays . |