Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] work [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel we will 've achieved significant progress if we have turned , I did n't know you worked in the United Kingdom , into it 's good to know that the rights and needs of children are just as important to you in the United Kingdom as they are overseas . |
| 2 | I expect you to work on the assignments you owe me at home ! |
| 3 | His reputation as a hard man — he had picked up a conviction for GBH — had won him work on the bouncer circuit and the title ‘ King of the Bouncers ’ . |
| 4 | I went looking for Mathilda and found her working in the buttery with the other maids . |
| 5 | Fragmented evidence suggests that questions about married women 's reasons for taking jobs tap the normative tip of the iceberg — that women say they work for the money because this is the socially acceptable reason . |
| 6 | ‘ Let me work in the sergeant 's mess , and I 'll come to you every day to entertain you . ’ |
| 7 | I noted him working on the machinery while we were waiting to ascend . |
| 8 | Baldwin disliked the level of unemployment both for its own sake and because he believed it worked against the evolution of a moderate Labour Party . |
| 9 | Some would say it made no pretence of catering at all , but if you were n't fussy about what you ate , if your lunch was no more than a fuelling stop to enable you to work through the afternoon , then what was on offer was tolerable . |
| 10 | Billeting allocation was frequently chaotic : host families could be hostile ; children might be selected according to their good looks and manners ; in rural areas , farmers often gleefully snapped up the strongest boys and set them to work on the land . |
| 11 | Or , if you insist on hanging around the office , they will set you to work on the accounts of charities . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Er but er they devised various ways on their own to help them with these things , you know , they er I do n't know exactly what it was called but you you would see a Maybe a riveter in below the in below the boat er doing the shell , in below the boat , and he would have a Like a hammer , a a an arm that was rigged up for him er to give him an assistance with the the machine , to hold the machine up to You know to let him work with the machine . |
| 14 | Cissie had also been entertaining secret hopes that Beth just might change her mind about sending her to work at the flower shop . |
| 15 | Not even as f far as getting him to work in the morning . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Matinee is a screen saver with a difference , but be warned — I had problems getting it to work with the VGA card in some machines . |
| 19 | ‘ You 're asking me to work round the police department here . ’ |
| 20 | Our present mayoress of Lewes , Mavis Askew , who 's done a sterling work as secretary of this new association , and that 's a very worthwhile project , and I believe she works in the library here . |
| 21 | I mean they were n't badly Me father at th er at the beginning of the war he worked he worked at the Grove pit , down the mine at the Grove and he used to be on afternoons . |
| 22 | Victoria and Kay were so impressed with her rapport with the children that they asked her to work in the morning as well . |
| 23 | She comes from a farming background , but did secretarial courses to enable her to work in the city . ’ |
| 24 | It is suggested that pupils choose a person whose Christian commitment has led him/her to work for the good of others , thus making a link with the Christian vocation to alleviate suffering and/or the work of Christians in relation to respect for human life ( both indicated in L.0.2 ) . |
| 25 | During the hay and silage making that summer farmers had to wear dust masks to allow them to work in the dust . |
| 26 | Well he was as far as I can remember he was thirty eight he , he went he worked at the Gas Works , ca n't remember much about that really but er I think he 'd actually been working nights and came home and actually died in bed I believe . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | And one day Uncle Edouard said he might let me work on the Aston Martin . |
| 29 | A few of them can afford to rely upon a single organization to offer them work throughout the year . |
| 30 | It was the same with the herring gutters that was here , I mind them working on the pier down here , and they all had their fingers tied up with Clotes There was the skill that work in this . |