Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] work [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expect you to work on the assignments you owe me at home ! |
| 2 | The Scottish people whom I meet who work in the shipyards at Yarrow take pride in building ships for the Royal Navy whose orders would presumably be lost to them if they had the pleasure of being represented by an SNP policy . |
| 3 | Or , if you insist on hanging around the office , they will set you to work on the accounts of charities . |
| 4 | Gould took the opportunity of taking Lear with him on this ornithological grand tour , and at some point managed to enlist him to work on the Birds of Europe with Mrs Gould . |
| 5 | He receives for his employment a take home pay of seventy three pounds per week , he lives with his parents and pays a board of twenty pounds per week he 's fortunate in that his employer takes him to work in the mornings but he has to catch the bus home in the evening and at lunchtime on Saturdays which costs him seven pounds forty . |
| 6 | He 's fortunate in that his employer takes him to work in the mornings but he has to catch the bus home in the evening and a at lunchtime on Saturdays which costs him seven pounds forty . |
| 7 | ‘ You 're asking me to work round the police department here . ’ |
| 8 | Alternatively , there would be great benefit in choosing someone working in the pupils ' locality e.g. a youth worker , a nurse , a pupil involved in the provision of a soup kitchen or the organisation of a pro-life cell . |
| 9 | Even Mahmoud , however , could not get them to work in the afternoons and he too , like Owen , normally used the afternoons to catch up on desk work and reading . |
| 10 | So much greenhouse equipment is electric and a light will allow you to work with the plants at any time of the day . |
| 11 | Did you work in the pits for a long time ? |
| 12 | A lot of hard work to get you working during the holidays . |
| 13 | You 've worked am I right in saying , have you worked on the flats You 'd had contact had you , with people in the flats erm prior |
| 14 | But to tame an animal as awe-inspiring as a wild elephant , to make it work in the forests and to carry man into battle ! |