Example sentences of "[vb past] to work [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The discovery , in 1945 by Brotzu in Sardinia , of antibiotic activity in a species of Cephalosporium recovered from the sea near a sewage outfall was brought to Florey 's attention by a former British public health officer and led to work at Oxford and elsewhere on this and similar organisms . |
| 2 | He also wrote a two-volume work on The Architecture of Robert and James Adam ( 1922 ) , which led to work at Adam 's Royal Society of Arts and in 1925 to his being consultant to the eighth Earl of Jersey at Osterley Park . |
| 3 | On Monday , 8 September , Coleman got to work with Asmar in his office at Karintina . |
| 4 | Rekhi says that Novell tried to work with Santa Cruz Operation on Unix back in 1990 , and later approached Sun Microsystems Inc to help with its Intel-Unix effort , but both efforts came to nothing . |
| 5 | We also tried to work with housewives , usually the wives of trade unionists . |
| 6 | Rekhi says Novell tried to work with SCO on Unix back in 1990 , and later approached Sun to help with its Intel-Unix effort , but both efforts came to nothing . |
| 7 | In 1990 he moved to work for Wimpey Minerals in the US as chief financial officer . |
| 8 | He next moved to work for Courage and then on to Kerridges , where he was employed in the accounts department . |
| 9 | He owned a firm of barristers in France but moved to work in Middlesbrough . |
| 10 | They asked him how he proposed to work with Pilger and , to his surprise , told him that he had far more power than Pilger had led him to believe . |
| 11 | But they seemed to work for researchers whose single-minded concern was to delineate the biochemistry , neurophysiology and cell biology of learning and memory . |
| 12 | The sound of his name seemed to work like magic . |
| 13 | They too seemed to work in shifts . |
| 14 | Since CR-1409 did not interfere with circulating concentrations of the hormone , it seemed to work by receptor blockade . |
| 15 | In the early days of the strike Jayaben Desai , perhaps Britain 's best known Asian trade unionist , described to me what it had been like when she came to work at Grunwick in the mail order department : |
| 16 | in fact her brother er came to work at Oliver 's , er , er |
| 17 | When he came to work at lunchtime , his first question was : ‘ How goes it ? |
| 18 | Millworkers ' houses were erected by the owners of Kinleith Mill , along with other houses for the use of quarry workers who came to work at Torphin Quarry . |
| 19 | Stuart had told me that Aj ( whose name is short for Arnold Junior , after the Head Forester of whom he became the spitting image when he first came to work at Clumber as a woodsman ten years ago at the age of sixteen ) was a dab hand with a tractor . |
| 20 | ‘ In October 1983 , I came to work for Cambridgeshire County Council as an Assistant Solicitor . |
| 21 | When Rosemary first came to work for Cambridgeshire , she was principally involved in preparing and arguing child care cases and occasionally with points of education and highway law . |
| 22 | In 1965 I came to work with Basil as an art adviser in the West Riding after lecturing for eight years at the Froebel Institute in Roehampton . |
| 23 | By the time he came to work with Lawford , Sinatra 's reputation for roughing it with the press was already growing . |
| 24 | When my oldest son Blair said farewell sadly to the Outer Hebrides and came to work in Aberdeenshire , my wife Ann and I arranged to spend a few days there , fishing and exploring a country that neither of us knew . |
| 25 | There are contradictory versions of how the SMG came to work in Hounslow , eventually receiving funding from Hounslow Council 18 months ago . |
| 26 | If children are allowed and encouraged to work in areas which interest them , this ought to be a useful means of demonstrating to them the usefulness of developing their reading skills . |
| 27 | Economic sanctions were agreed at an emergency EC meeting in Rome on Aug. 4 , which approved a statement condemning of Iraq , pledged to work for UN sanctions , and adopted with immediate effect an embargo on oil imports from Iraq and Kuwait , appropriate measures aimed at freezing Iraqi assets , an embargo on military sales to Iraq and the suspension of military , scientific and technical co-operation . |
| 28 | In contrast , hound breeds , bred to work in packs with little individual contact with their keepers under normal circumstances , present greater problems , certainly in terms of obedience . |
| 29 | Women first began to work as psychologists in the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 30 | Mary Jane Attenburrow in February began to work as S.H.O. Psychiatrist ( Oxford Rotation ) . |