Example sentences of "he [vb past] to work [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon after the Second World War , in which he worked with ENSA ( or ‘ Every-Night-Something-Awful ’ , as he called it ) , he came to work for the music publishing firm of R. Smith and Co Ltd and served as editor of British Bandsman ( the brass band world 's leading newspaper since 1887 ) for 15 years . |
| 2 | Grandfather James Hauxwell met Grandmother Elizabeth , who was a Bayles , when he came to work on the building of the reservoir , just below Low Birk Hatt . |
| 3 | Later he came to work at the house which was his first entry into Local Government . |
| 4 | Perhaps he was more specific , speaking of what he usually saw when he came to work in the morning — Eva in her blue silk pyjamas and red robe shouting and laughing and giving orders to me for breakfast , and reading aloud from the papers . |
| 5 | He began to work on the body , aiming for the solar plexus all the time . |
| 6 | But I knew that it would be difficult to persuade Jimbo that he had to work at the exercises : yet if the treatment were to succeed , it had to be him — Jimbo himself — who , in the end , would reopen the pathway of nerves between brain and muscle . |
| 7 | He had to work in the knowledge that he could be reported to the Inquisition at any time , when his writings would become the subject of serious scrutiny . |
| 8 | During this time he continued to work on the design of docks and harbours in the Isle of Man , the river Mersey , and Cardiff , as well as many of the Trinity House lighthouses . |
| 9 | He was educated at Ochiltree and Coylton village schools until , at 12 , he left to work on the pithead of Trabboch colliery . |
| 10 | Henry started his education at a boarding-school in Birkenhead but in the spring of 1887 the family moved to the Queen 's Park district of west London , where he continued his education at Beethoven Street School in Kilburn Lane until 1890 , when he left to work in the jewellery workshops of William Whiteley [ q.v. ] of Bayswater . |