Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] work [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The working-class wives of early eighteenth-century London earned from charring , laundry , nursing , making and mending clothes , hawking , silk-winding and in the catering and victualling services : The great majority of women were unable to work in male trades and , since nearly three quarters of women wanted to or had to work for a living , they necessarily competed intensely for the work which was left , much of it of a casual nature and none of it organised by gilds and livery companies . |
| 2 | There are frequent occasions in a drama session when children are divided into groups and asked to work on a task . |
| 3 | Whistling to himself , Henry laid the table , while , in the corner of the kitchen , Maisie finished her last chocolate bar and got to work on a packet of crisps , a tube of Rollos , half a pound of jellybabies and a jumbo bar of Turkish delight . |
| 4 | The method was ethnographic and participatory and involved working with a software development team , and research programmers . |
| 5 | However his teachers recognised his exceptional qualities and he was given junior teaching posts which enabled him to register at the University of Pennsylvania , where he obtained his Master 's degree and began to work towards a PhD , specialising in philosophy . |
| 6 | Her father had come from Lithuania and started working as a tailor 's presser , then he ran a clothes shop in the parlour of his house in Strangeways . |
| 7 | Fr Butler was ordained in Ireland in June 1990 and sent to work as a curate in Consett as part of a two-year exchange scheme between the Dioceses of Ossory and Hewxham and Newcastle . |
| 8 | Both started young and had to work through a range of personal problems and private defeats . |