Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] working [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as one person 's work has been built into the computer , it stays there and goes on working for as long as needed . |
| 2 | Bullied , beaten , criticized , indoctrinated , sent to the countryside and sacked from the newspaper job he loved , Liang Heng 's father goes on working for Communism even after his health is wrecked . |
| 3 | Because of their youth and vulnerability , and since they were less likely to be union members , apprentices and turnovers might be persuaded by employers to carry on working during a strike . |
| 4 | But Cyril has no plans to put away his rolling pin just yet … he hopes to carry on working into his 90s . |
| 5 | The thing is , it 's a vicious circle , it 's Catch 22 really , 'cos I used to have a good self-employed business , going painting and decorating and I used to have a good clientele and that and I found over the years that , when it became harder and harder to score and the prices rocketed and all that , it got out of hand , out of proportion , that I was spending more and more time off the job than I was on the job , looking round to get the stuff and I found I was unable to carry on working without the drug , because I just felt so bad and I could n't climb ladders and I thought I was a danger to myself and anybody else that I had working with me , y'know . |
| 6 | As Trevor is self-employed and intends to carry on working beyond the usual retirement age , he 'll receive his payout just when he needs it — with cash to spare , helping towards the world cruise that he and his wife had always promised themselves . |
| 7 | However , doing some voluntary work in schools and on a holiday camp for the under privileged convinced her that she really wanted to carry on working with children . |
| 8 | Yasmin is expecting another child in the autumn and , although she will have to make some difficult decisions about whether or not to continue with her career after the baby is born , she is still determined to carry on working for as long as she can . |
| 9 | A DOCTOR was allowed to carry on working after telling fellow general practitioners he had contracted AIDS , health officials revealed yesterday . |
| 10 | I can say without embarrassment that I have been training for this for a long time , that I have learned to breathe the rarefied air , that I now know when to stand still and when to move forward , when to attack and when to retreat , when to leave a problem to resolve itself and when to go on working at it till the solution emerges . |
| 11 | For Carolina in Brazil the non-controversial fiction film was likewise the only option left if she wanted to go on working at all : she had been jailed several times for the making of political films . |
| 12 | All too often husbands actually prevented their wives from coming to the picket line and there were cases where parents-in-law forced women to go on working for the sort of reasons described in Chapter 6 . |
| 13 | In other words , you do n't have to go on working for peanuts ! |
| 14 | The local constituency officers got new people and could plan how and when to use them — and later many of them decided they 'd like to go on working with their new friends . |
| 15 | He did not want to see them simply crushed , not only because he respected their opinion , but because he would have to go on working with them after the Council . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm really chuffed that Sandy chooses to go on working with us . |
| 17 | After marriage , only the exceptional woman is now going to go on working outside her home . ’ |
| 18 | What girl would want to go on working amongst those unfortunates when they could have the comfort of Timothy 's home ? " |
| 19 | It was the coldest winter for years , but Tess and Marian had to go on working in the snow . |
| 20 | I tried to picture what she must have been like , the young woman who had diligently allowed her life to fade away working at this solitary chore . |
| 21 | Bennetts came here on holiday from New Zealand 20 years ago and never returned , ending up working for McLaren boss Ron Dennis until he founded WSR 10 years ago . |
| 22 | You do n't really I mean I think I do n't know maybe working for a char firm of chartered surveyors you have I mean it 's the same system is n't working as a dogsbody and then maybe |
| 23 | This was a showcase for a wide variety of young British musicians and bands currently working outside the mainstream of rock and pop . |
| 24 | It might well be something that is very important to you to maintain , even if you ca n't carry on working through illness . |
| 25 | did you carry on working at the same place ? |
| 26 | Groups formed last year will carry on working at four other tasks : cellulose losses , tow motor ( forklift truck ) costs , maintenance store stocks and quality information . |
| 27 | You get fed up working at the cos you have no day in it . |
| 28 | I got fed up working in the library on fine autumn days and went cross-country running . |
| 29 | This stage will come to an end with some of the ferrets staying above ground while others remain underground working on rabbits they have cornered . |
| 30 | Uma Thurman stars as a hitch-hiker who ends up working at a pansexual beauty ranch , where she joins fellow workers in rebelling against the owners and their male-servicing feminine hygiene products . |