Example sentences of "[verb] to work [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As children we tend to work on this and practise asking for what we want at every available opportunity . |
| 2 | ‘ I tend to work with up-and-coming guitar bands because that 's the music I like listening to and that 's what I understand better . |
| 3 | I tend to work by this rule : for a big painting I paint very thinly and a small one I use thick impasto , although of course the rule can be broken . |
| 4 | I tend to work by this rule : for a big painting I paint very thinly and a small one I use thick impasto , although of course the rule can be broken . |
| 5 | So er I , I b basically go to the office one day a week , that 's my admin day , and the rest , I , I tend to work within this area . |
| 6 | Because they did n't want to work under these conditions . |
| 7 | No matter where you finally wind up in the advertising business , you will want to work at some stage in an agency to gain real insight into advertising and acquire first-rate skills ( and , hopefully , reputation ) that puts wheels under your career . |
| 8 | I mean , I mean I know I do n't really want to work with old age pensioners , but I start in a |
| 9 | Why do you want to work with this company ? |
| 10 | Not much , says Mr Day , and he predicts that smaller firms that do n't want to work in regulated areas will break away from the Institute and set up in practice as plain accountants . |
| 11 | The art seems to have died out in Crete altogether , yet mysteriously reappeared in Mycenae in the thirteenth century BC ; Sinclair Hood ( 1978 ) has suggested that after the conquest of Minoan Crete by Myceneans , the finest craftsmen may have been taken by force to the mainland and made to work for new masters . |
| 12 | That a computer can be taught to work like that has always been a controversial proposition ; even today there are observers who believe that it is impossible to build a machine ( at least with current programming techniques ) that can plan even remotely as well as a human . |
| 13 | Shortly after graduating in 1987 , the opportunity arose to work with former Napier student , Tom Kidd . |
| 14 | One old petrol stove clogged up and failed to work at all . |
| 15 | Yes , yes , he 's organised it Chris has had to go to work for two days this week . |
| 16 | However , if you intend to work at this ‘ subtle ’ level all the time , it may be helpful to learn one or two ‘ psychic protection ’ techniques ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 17 | The EPLP is ideally placed to work alongside other Parliamentary groups in the Community to set the agenda for Europe and for its people . |
| 18 | The system was developed to work with multiple databases , including Ingres , Oracle and Btrieve , various local nets such as NetWare and TCP/IP , and a variety of computers . |
| 19 | We are extremely fortunate that has agreed to continue to work as part-time Secretary to the Society and she will be there to deal personally with any Q.T 's queries etc on those days . |
| 20 | Those of my constituents who are members of the police force — both uniformed and civilian — and those in the constituencies of my hon. Friends are absolute saints to continue to work in such circumstances with bravery , courage , commitment and cheerfulness . |
| 21 | In practice , this would mean that even when assigned to work with specific individual children , support teachers should : |
| 22 | And by the end of about a month , the guy I was assigned to work with refused to work with me because I was always cracking jokes — he said ‘ I 'm not going to work with you , if you crack one more joke I 'm going to the supervisor . ’ |
| 23 | Then I got to work with some hard green soap I 'd found beside the sink , washed my make-up off as best I could , examined my face by the light of the torch in the little mirror hanging there , then tucked myself in . |
| 24 | The bike was in his space when she got to work at eight . |
| 25 | In a Andean Declaration on the initiative , the participants agreed to work with other Latin American countries and the USA in order to formulate the necessary mechanisms to bring it into existence . |
| 26 | Following the Rhineland-Palatinate election the CSU threatened to withdraw from the governing CDU/CSU/FDP coalition at federal level , but after a five-hour meeting on May 8 the parties agreed to work towards common policies on such issues as abortion and immigration , and to reassert their traditional values . |
| 27 | All parties agreed to work towards further reductions in conventional arms and troop levels , to be formalized in a new multilateral agreement ( referred to as CFE-1A , the successor to the CFE agreement signed in November 1990 — see p. 37838 ) . |
| 28 | If you can not find a language helper who only wants to work for one hour a day , try hiring someone to do gardening or housework for you on a more fulltime basis and then use that person also as a language helper until you reach the stage where you can cope with a fulltime language helper . |
| 29 | I have a close friend in Croatia who is a professional social worker with excellent English and a doctorate qualification who wants to work in residential or day services or something similar in the UK . |
| 30 | To argue as some opponents of Wages for Housework do ( Phillips and Wallsgrove , 1978 ) that there should be ‘ adequate payment for everyone who wants to work in these collective childcare facilities ’ while opposing any payment for mothers looking after their own children at home is astonishing . |