Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] work [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I walked out of another final-year class at fox Primary , the pupils were building complex models out of balsawood or working on the theories of gearing with big pieces of plastic Meccano . |
| 2 | Was he , as I originally suspected in Salamanca , an FBI agent or working for the CIA ? ft was a mystery I had no longer any wish to clear up . |
| 3 | Sony Corp appointed Michael Schulhof , now vice-chairman of Sony USA Inc , to the post of president and chief executive of its US unit , which will be renamed Sony Corp of America : Schulhof joined Sony in 1974 after a mainly academic career as a physicist and worked on the development of the compact disk ; in 1989 , he became one of the first Americans to be appointed to the board of a major Japanese company . |
| 4 | Although Mexico accounted in recent times for more than a third of the world 's production of silver , the extraction and working of the metal began there only late in the first millennium A.D. |
| 5 | ‘ All I want to do now is concentrate on football and work for the success of a great little club . ’ |
| 6 | By the mid-1970s the general policy of winning the confidence of the farming organizations and working on the basis of persuasion and advice was being increasingly questioned . |
| 7 | Running the club and working on the house gets a bit much sometimes . ’ |
| 8 | But Benn took the fight to the Welshman in rounds three to six , brilliantly switching tactics and working to the body with lacerating left and right hooks . |
| 9 | With the outbreak of World War II she gave up her research and worked in the Cambridge offices of the YMCA and WVS , and also in Addenbrooke 's Hospital library ( 1940–3 ) . |
| 10 | The detective , whose name and rank have not been given , is a member of the Essex force and worked at the Brentwood office of the No 5 Regional Crime Squad , covering a large area of East Anglia and the South-east . |
| 11 | there had been no attempt by the appellant to show that any part of the deceased 's income & 6 ] consisted of a return on assets as opposed to remuneration for labour and work on the farm . |
| 12 | the fishing and worked on the farm and |
| 13 | The idiocy of Urbanism and of urban life have replaced the inspiration of Ruralism , of living and working on the land . |
| 14 | This factor is naturally much less pronounced in the primary school where the teacher in any case knows the child in much greater depth by virtue of living and working alongside the youngster on a daily , weekly and sometimes more than yearly basis . |
| 15 | For the last eight years , Messrs. Wright & Sons have had the contract for the maintenance and working of the North and South Staffordshire Railways . ’ |
| 16 | You 're teaching in the chapel most mornings , helping in the dairy and working in the house too . ’ |
| 17 | In the pre-war world which informed Beveridge 's design for the Social Insurance system ( Beveridge , 1942 ) , a woman 's labour force career usually ended upon marriage and work outside the home was normally treated as incompatible with domestic duty . |
| 18 | He had been one of oil giant Ultramar 's youngest directors and worked for the firm for more than 20 years . |
| 19 | But we still did a lot of sport and work on the assault course , which was a set of twenty-four gut-wrenching obstacles set on the edge of the camp . |
| 20 | However , very few of the teachers even recognized the issue as one of professional concern at the start of the project , and most of the first two years was spent in establishing the educational importance of the issue and working towards the development of feasible intervention strategies . |
| 21 | If I did n't go I could stay at home and work on the house . |
| 22 | They were then asked why they could not raise the money by staying at home and working on the land . |
| 23 | effective writing skills , presentation skills and working with the media I 've got here Thursday twenty second nineteen ninety four |
| 24 | For example , the estimator and standard price books use a common labour constant for brickwork ; in practice the labour constant could be adjusted to provide different targets for , say , work at ground level and work in the gables . |
| 25 | For example , Roman Jakobson and his Prague school colleague René Wellek have had considerable influence on literary studies through their teaching and work in the United States for a number of decades , and , although it carried no explicit theoretical creed , René Wellek 's Theory of Literature ( co-authored with Austin Warren and first published in 1949 ) was for many years the only widely available explicitly theoretical account of literary studies for Anglo-Saxon students of literature . |
| 26 | He would catch the bus to Piccadilly Circus — he sat on the top deck and worked on the crossword before turning to the company reports in The Times . |
| 27 | And the operations in France support and work with the company 's reseller community , which bring in the bulk of its European revenues . |
| 28 | And the operations in France support and work with the company 's reseller community , which bring in the bulk of its European revenues . |
| 29 | The only way he was able to free himself was to grab the branch and work against the current , going back the way he came in . |
| 30 | The drama comes not from discussing what each decision would mean , but in making the decision and working through the consequences . |