Example sentences of "[vb past] to work [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rode to work every morning on a fine stallion . |
| 2 | Clutterbuck ceased to work the mill during the latter half of the 1840s , for by 1847 it had been leased to a paper-maker , Frederick Wiggins , who apparently only operated it for a few years . |
| 3 | We tried to work the system , but at times of intensive spraying operations we were asked reduce our area of notification as large areas of the country were blanketed off to military operations . |
| 4 | Lawson was a self-taught oil refinery engineer who cycled to work every day . |
| 5 | Around 12 million Africans were captured and transported to work the cotton fields and tobacco and sugar plantations of the Caribbean and North America . |
| 6 | He came to work every day in the week at 6 a.m. and left off at about 9 p.m . |
| 7 | But I do know that great-aunt was not exactly popular after the incident of the farm sale , and eventually John Bell left her so her brother , Great-Uncle William , came to work the farm . |
| 8 | As Julia began to work the room , she realised that the house had been designed and built for just this sort of occasion : it was planned for servants to run . |
| 9 | She started to work the cream into the skin around her eyes , staring straight ahead at her reflection as she did it . |
| 10 | While chairman of the health authority he was instantly recognisable by the fresh , home-grown carnation he wore to work every day . |
| 11 | I had to work a bit to keep up with him — the path is not as straight as the road ; also I had to be careful not to make a noise . |
| 12 | would see that you had to work a bit |
| 13 | She never had to work a day in her life . ’ |
| 14 | At this time the villagers had to work a number of days for the Bishop and among their duties , they had to send one man from each household to pick the grapes from his vines . |
| 15 | Duff had to work a lot harder for his five-set victory over the 1985 world champion , Terry Sullivan . |
| 16 | Most PC software did n't have a Macintosh counterpart and even if it did users had to work the magic of the asynchronous communications link to get data back and forth . |
| 17 | On my first week as a passed out Goods Guard in August 1962 , I had to work an Annesley Sidings , G.C. , to Sheffield Rotherham , freight train . |
| 18 | However , I continued to work the whole of this one section quite thoroughly in order to dismiss it or not ( depending on what was found ) . |
| 19 | These authorities would contract with doctors who wished to work a night shift . |
| 20 | Other signalmen had similar stories to tell and some refused to work the box , so frightened were they of the strange events . |