Example sentences of "[adv] worked [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bernie obviously worked on the idea and eventually came up with a much cheaper and more simple solution which would provide the investigator with a moving picture of the basic flight instruments during the period leading up to the crash . |
| 2 | Over many years we have together worked towards the day when all the people of South Africa are able to vote for a government of their choice and be in control of their own destiny . |
| 3 | A general war weariness , grievances over high taxation , and a deep fear amongst the Anglican majority of the population that the Church was now in greater danger from Protestant Nonconformists than it was from popery , all worked to the Tories ' advantage . |
| 4 | The Met , Signals and Switchboard girls all worked on the same ground floor , next to each other , and at the end of the corridor were the girls in the Intelligence office , although they did n't mix with us so much . |
| 5 | At the time Rachel herself had still been doing her training but they had all worked at the same hospital — David as a senior house officer and Jennifer as a staff nurse on Orthopaedics . |
| 6 | And er I 've been there all my life and that 's and that 'll be eighty seven years old come May and er I 've just worked on the farm all my days and er then of course when my people died I just er stayed myself , and then lived with other people here and there , just to help them . |
| 7 | All it is it 's plugged in in in the hall and it is just a box a little box about this big and we just er it 's just worked on the different |
| 8 | I felt aggrieved at this because I had not worked with the sister during my placement , and could not imagine how she could possibly assess my work and capability . |
| 9 | This is most likely to happen where the wife has not worked outside the home . |
| 10 | Henry has not worked in the Model Shop . |
| 11 | Care must be taken in interpreting Fig. 3 b because the CTD stations at the eastern end were not worked in the same location ( Fig. 1 ) , and some effect from the different topography might account for the eddy-like structure seen between 15–28°W . |
| 12 | Now , we did have a , a very heated discussion and concern was expressed regarding the rules governing eligibility , section and conferences for delegates which excludes those who have not worked in the industry or craft or trade for eighteen months prior to their nomination . |
| 13 | However , lapis from the region of Lake Baikal in Siberia does contain wollastonite , although this source was not worked until the nineteenth century . |
| 14 | While in use on the Croydon system , these cars normally worked on the Thornton Heath — Purley service and like 46–55 were probably too large for the Penge or Addiscombe services . |
| 15 | From then on , Nos. 1–17 normally worked on the Penge route , 18 and 20 were the Thornton Heath route spares and No. 19 a general spare . |
| 16 | In addition to what Nicholas er recounted about my brother , I believe that I am the only minister in the government , possibly the only member of parliament who has ever worked for the Save The Children Fund . |
| 17 | Because you can never go back to yesterday , if you came in last year or five years ago , ten years ago or longer , some of you have been in the truth for many , many years and it is nearer now than it ever was when you first came along and joined Jehovah 's people and as it says the night is well along and if any of us have ever worked on the night shift , I think we 're all well aware are n't we that when the night is well along and |
| 18 | ‘ Of all the people who have ever worked in the centre , she is most punctual and very reliable . |
| 19 | According to the more experienced officers , the incessant demands for paper from headquarters divert them from more pressing tasks and display an innocence among senior staff about the nature of the job , a view the more firmly held in the knowledge that few senior men have ever worked in the field themselves ( cf. |
| 20 | He asked the old man if he 'd ever worked in the sandpaper factory and added that he 'd probably be going to work there himself when he 'd finished at the Comprehensive . |
| 21 | Yet both collaboration and conflict usually worked to the detriment of the church , so that at the end of Edward 's reign clerical morale and independence were seriously impaired and dangerous fissures were becoming apparent between the clergy and laity , and between Englishmen and the papacy . |
| 22 | This conflict was uncharacteristic both because judges usually avoided speaking against the Government on matters of party policy and because judges usually worked behind the scenes to advance their own causes or to influence legal reforms . |
| 23 | But had any worked in the laboratory ? |
| 24 | His brothers came back with stories of heaving and hacking coal : even Daddy Ni still worked at the face : even Elfed , seen as the over-restraining killjoy , worked down there . |
| 25 | The relevant employees , however , still worked at the same machines , doing the same kind of jobs . |
| 26 | Millions of Europeans still worked on the land , and the absolute numbers of those dependent on agriculture for a livelihood did not begin to fall until very recently , yet the tendency for population to increase and to accumulate in a few densely populated and highly urbanized regions had already begun to alter the patterns of earlier centuries . |
| 27 | And of course blacksmiths still worked on the penny farthing bicycle . |
| 28 | From then on , Nos. 1–16 always worked on the Sutton route , where Nos. 36 and 51 were retained for short workings sometimes assisted by one of the Milnes cars . |
| 29 | If you 've always worked on the account of companies that deal in furniture , say , you could just as easily do the same job for a company dealing in computers . |
| 30 | He said that Sabine Jourdain had always worked on the paintings with her maître and that over the years the amount she did varied . |