Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] work [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is a sharp decline from the 73.5p at which they were suspended and reflects the financial havoc which has been wrought on the company 's accounts as a consequence of the problems at its ISC Technologies subsidiary . |
| 2 | Ron Coatman has been working at the pool for 26 years . |
| 3 | In March it was learned that there is in existence a French organisation which has been working towards the provision of a water supply to the village of Atea and the construction of a better quality road to the village than had previously existed . |
| 4 | An impressive madame , wife of the owner , stands continuously in the corner of the restaurant , surveying every aspect of the culinary stage management , and the sommelier has been working with the family for 38 years . |
| 5 | At the application level , Unisys has been working with the database companies on distributed technology , including lock management . |
| 6 | Sentinel has been working on the concept of the machine for eight years and says it will be supplying the systems to five major customers , for use in insurance as well as telecommunications applications , in the third quarter . |
| 7 | Oh , yes , indeed , a close friend of mine has been working on the history of a very large British company and he 's just seen the proofs produced from the printers from the typescript which was typed in his own office , and apart from the fact that their computers can change the typefaces and improve the whole thing , the work has not had to be re-keyboarded , as they would say , re-typed in at all . |
| 8 | Professor Mott , who has been working on the cancers of childhood for almost 20 years , is the new Professor of Paediatric Oncology . |
| 9 | These ‘ environmentally-friendly ’ studios will be funded by a grant from the Kress Foundation and will be co-ordinated by the Swiss conservator Luca Bonetti who has been working on the design with the Italian team of Mario and Dario Bellini . |
| 10 | The paper says that Sun has been working on the project for two and a half years under the code-name Green at its SunLabs unit under former Apple Computer Inc executive Wayne Rosing , and is forming a new company , First Person Inc , to exploit it . |
| 11 | Echo has been working on the technology for three years with a variety of minicomputer architectures . |
| 12 | A team of around 30 detectives and uniformed officers has been working on the inquiry . |
| 13 | In fact Michael has been working on the province for nearly 30 years . |
| 14 | A committee of three ministers — Roger Freeman ( transport ) , Francis Maude ( Treasury ) and John Redwood ( trade and industry ) — has been working on the railway sell-off ; and the group drafting the Tory election manifesto has been trying to distil the trio 's ideas into an appetising few paragraphs . |
| 15 | Pauline Dungate has been working in the church for quite a few years , and she knows the man who lives in the cemetery from time to time . |
| 16 | Sometimes , when he has been working in the garden , he will come in and sit down , then out again and does a bit more . |
| 17 | Chalcopyrite , with quartz , pyrite , arsenopyrite and some magnetite and Co-Ni-As sulphides , has been worked in the Coniston area . |
| 18 | Lead and antimony vein mineralisation , with silver-rich galena and reported gold values , has been worked in the Wadebridge area of north Devon ( Dines , 1956 ) . |
| 19 | Erm , it 's a very long term thing , and John 's been working through the tenants ' action group on it so I personally do n't know what , what the kind of take up is on that , er |
| 20 | The Tree has some pretty weird ideas about religion ; he might just swallow the idea he 's been working for the devil all this time . |
| 21 | Since she left school she 's been working for the Fish Co-operative in Stockholm Backs , not far from Riddle 's yard . ’ |
| 22 | No but I mean , I do n't mean wh I do n't mean where he 's been working for the corporation , I mean before when he 's had these various jobs and they 've finished and he 's had , you know , the job 's finished and they 've had to go somewhere . |