Example sentences of "work [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1923 he obtained two consultant posts as children 's physician , one at the Queen 's Hospital for Children , where for ten years he was in charge of the London county council rheumatic and heart clinic , and the other at Paddington Green Children 's Hospital , where he continued to work for nearly forty years . |
| 2 | I realise that , if I am accepted , once I have completed my degree I may often have to work for over 80 hours at a stretch during a weekend on call . |
| 3 | They are recalled as somewhat sad , dependent figures : a ‘ poor old fellow ’ who went out to his sister for his meals ; ‘ a right cripple ’ who had been unable to work for over ten years ; ‘ a very old gentleman ’ who scraped together a living by selling vegetables and tomatoes which he grew in his greenhouse , but was ‘ very unhappy ’ because he had quarrelled with his drunken son . |
| 4 | He promised " to work for far reaching political reform to eliminate the root causes which have bred today 's distrust of politics , including ensuring greater political transparency of political funding and facilitating elections contested over policy issues and political activity which do not require vast sums of money " . |
| 5 | In 1954 the Nordic Council agreed to work for as comprehensive a Nordic common market as possible , and a committee was set up to study the question . |
| 6 | Well , would n't you if you had to work for only one night a year ? |
| 7 | It is these duties that are approximately laid down in their conditions of service : to work for so many hours , to teach those classes , to attend these meetings , to undertake these extras . |
| 8 | The IWC is not required to work for more humane killing methods , but it can do so by virtue of the fact that it can recommend particular catching methods that are better than others . |
| 9 | Second , the system tends to work for more affluent foreign consumers and domestic elites by making life more difficult for the rural poor . |
| 10 | As a result , there are a lot of out-of-work would-be finance directors willing to work for much much less than their previous salaries , not that that appears to have had any effect on those in stable positions . |
| 11 | Trying to feel better by using more never seems to work for long . |
| 12 | It was not to work for long . |
| 13 | Had one to work for that alone ? |
| 14 | Nearly 50 years after the 1944 Education Act it is time to bring all education provision more into line with the sort of society it would be realistic to work towards today . |
| 15 | And , although it is possible to help each person to develop into a more confident individual , it is something we have to work towards together . |
| 16 | It 's also given us the new agreement on working time which our own government have tried to work against consistently for the last two years , they now say they 'll challenge it in Europe 's Court of Justice , well what they seem to forget is it 's got ta come back to Parliament for a second reading yet and they 've created such ill feeling in the Parliament and among the Commission , that it 's likely to be strengthened , we 're gon na end up with a strengthened agreement on working time by the autumn of this year . |
| 17 | Discharging these responsibilities requires public health doctors to work with both purchasers and providers . |
| 18 | And posing with Bungo the dog , the new minister showed he 's willing to work with both children and animals . |
| 19 | Does anyone have an idea at just how much money Leeds has to work with right now ? |
| 20 | ‘ Reckon it might help if Ari had her daddy to work with now ? ’ he asked . |
| 21 | You should , however , take every opportunity to work with more experienced nurses and so observe procedures you are not familiar with . |
| 22 | Since a success with Corydoras panda I have been on the lookout for other species of catfish to work with so I gratefully headed home with my new charges . |
| 23 | In the autumn of 1986 , when Saxton and Bampfylde abandoned their previous employers , they had already prepared their future strategy : to work with only a selected and comparatively small number of clients in certain market sectors only , with an emphasis on finding the people needed to satisfy a client 's strategic needs rather than on the level of appointment . |
| 24 | It certainly seems to work with only one person inside but is less effective with two . |
| 25 | When you have some children who find it very difficult to work with others , one solution might be to work with much smaller groups , maybe even just a couple of them at a time for five minutes or so . |
| 26 | And they 're lovely young people they were to work with really . |
| 27 | It 's not just hype , but she is a joy to work with too . |
| 28 | And er they were quite tricky to work with too . |
| 29 | He , he used to work in here |
| 30 | It seems to work in here , because er the carpet industry , if you speak , speak to people in different firms , say they all work the same way , it seems to work on a |