Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] [coord] work [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The officer said people should lose their sectional interests , should learn to accept orders and to work for the common good . |
| 2 | Many women took over men 's duties in the public services , operating railway signals , acting as porters , driving buses and working in the Fire Brigade and the Police . |
| 3 | The Bordari , were an inferior class to the Villani , who rented cottages and worked on the other pastoral services and were bound to supply eggs , poultry etc. to the lords table . |
| 4 | I saw women dealing with having kids and working at the same time and the kids were happy because of the closeness with their mother . |
| 5 | Then in the 1830s thousands of immigrants arrived to seek homes and work in the new town that had been laid out by Joseph Pease , the Quaker industrialist who had extended the famous Stockton to Darlington railway so as to export coal from his Teeside wharves . |
| 6 | But many have established Reserves and work with the agricultural community to encourage traditional practices ( very often pump-priming product market outlets ) of agricultural management which conserve the landscape , flora and fauna alike . |
| 7 | Tim Mackie has explained to me that the organisation has been so successful gathering together items of rolling stock , track and equipment that there are not enough members available to operate trains and work on the infrastructure at the same time . |