Example sentences of "[noun prp] to work [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teller did not succeed in attracting more than a handful of Oppenheimer 's brilliant team back to Los Alamos to work on the H-bomb . |
| 2 | But ground engineers reprogrammed IRAS to work around the fault well before the survey began . |
| 3 | In 1989 a BGS engineer was seconded for six months to the Ocean Drilling Program ( ODP ) in Texas to work on the development of a downhole vibropercussive corer . |
| 4 | SEOUL ( AFP ) — Pope John Paul II urged South Korea to work for the reunification of the Korean Peninsula peacefully and told the President , Roh Tae Woo , that the division symbolised suffering . |
| 5 | She was a guest teacher at the prestigious Medau Teachers ' Whitsum Course in Coburg in 1983 and the trainers who experienced her work there have managed to persuade her to come to England to work with the English teachers . |
| 6 | His father was an Ulsterman who emigrated to Scotland to work in the mines , where he married a local woman and presided over a strictly protestant household in which both parents were active members of the Orange Lodge . |
| 7 | Few of the mechanics know much about aeroplane engines , so Jack was asked by Fletcher to work on the engine . |
| 8 | The architect died in 1352 and his place was taken by Peter Parler from Cologne , who was invited to come from Schwäbisch-Gmünd to work on the cathedral . |
| 9 | All staff in these offices were offered the opportunity to go to Bristol to work at the head office . |
| 10 | In 1929 he went to Paris to work at the Pasteur Institute . |
| 11 | And er he was there for quite a number of years and then went to just for a few years , and came back to Galashiels to work with the same firm and then he started business on his own . |
| 12 | And so the board agreed to send Oliver to work for the undertaker . |
| 13 | The Rev Peris Williams and his wife Sheila are leaving St Hildeburgh 's at Hoylake to work in the parish of Holy Trinity in Blacon , Chester , in October . |
| 14 | Two years ago Siu-ming left her job as a solicitor in Bath to work for the women 's workshop and train as a cabinetmaker at Brunel Technical College , on block release . |
| 15 | Difficulties in negotiating wage rates led to the controversial recruitment of labourers from St Vincent to work during the harvest . |
| 16 | ‘ And tell Daak to work on the hole with the chainsword . ’ |
| 17 | At a time ( 1944 ) when one 's acquaintances were casually saying ‘ I 'm off to the US to work on the atomic bomb ’ ( surely a gross breach of security ) I think Bernal was carefully insulated . |
| 18 | In 1842 Buddicom went to France to work on the Paris–Rouen railway , which opened in 1843 , and was subsequently extended to Le Havre . |
| 19 | Directly beneath the castle walls are the low , picturesque red roofs of the Italian quarter , where the masons and architects , artists and sculptors lodged when they first arrived from Italy to work for the kings of Bohemia . |
| 20 | In 1764 Thomas Paine was posted to Alford to work in the Excise Office which was housed in the old Windmill Inn in the market place . |
| 21 | When I 've been taking Paul to work in the morning they 've been giving me flashes and then if I , you know , flashed them back they have n't put their headlights on so I thought oh bugger yous ! |
| 22 | Mrs Pearce of Upper Haillng walked regularly to Cobham to work on the fields and Mrs Rogers of Upper Halling , mother of Jack and Rodney the local game keepers , would walk from her home to Cobham , there catch a bus to Gravesend , do all her shopping then bus back to Cobham and walk through the woods home with her baskets . |
| 23 | She worked in the Paris office of the New York Herald Tribune for a while and later she went to Switzerland to work for the International Labour Office of the United Nations . |
| 24 | Thousands left Swaledale to work in the pits of Durham and the mills of Lancashire . |