Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] [pers pn] work [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who were already more vulnerable , however , due to lack of such a relationship , were half as likely to develop depression following a provoking agent if they worked outside the home . |
| 2 | River rescue : Workman Anthony Robson , 33 , from Cleveland , was rescued from the River Tyne by marine police after falling from scaffolding as he worked on the Scotswood Bridge in Newcastle yesterday . |
| 3 | We may , for example , think to ourselves that it would be very useful to ask a housewife if she works outside the house at all , and this sounds easy enough in our heads . |
| 4 | And on this one there 's a nought on the inside and a nought on the outside so we work with the nought on the outside and we 'll go round that way , clockwise , the way the numbers go . |
| 5 | That evening as they worked on the catapult , Endill told Mould about what Mr Fractor had said to him . |
| 6 | Crackers and flares take on a whole new meaning when you work for the Olefines business . |
| 7 | Temperatures were so high in some of the deep mines that the ‘ tinners ’ had to be sprayed with cold water while they worked in the dark with candles fixed to their helmets . |
| 8 | met his wife when she worked at the maltings during the war and they were married in 1948 . |
| 9 | In this notebook , recording my random thoughts day after day as I work on the big glass , I can keep my distance from the big glass . |
| 10 | Would n't leave me all through the following night as I worked on the glass . |
| 11 | The Wheel Tapper pub behind the railway station in Taunton was my haven when I worked at the art college there in the late 1960s and early 1970s . |
| 12 | After that , he merely sat , smoking Woodbines and idly listening to Music While You Work on the radio . |
| 13 | The galloping granny , from Bristol , used to run the 800 yards and 4 x 400 relay for the Imperial Tobacco company where she worked on the shop floor . |
| 14 | Glasgow ambulance staff yesterday voted to observe TUC guidelines after management had warned that those on patient transfer would have their pay docked by three quarters unless they worked normally , and accident and emergency staff would lose half their pay unless they worked within the guidelines . |
| 15 | Richard says he has a tremendous sense of history as he works in the woods . |
| 16 | He was only clear about the classification as he worked through the foundations of his pragmatism and metaphysics in the 1890s , but it represents the systematization of a set of views that he had been groping towards since the 1860s . |
| 17 | I found out they had a computer in the bottom of the building when I worked in the bank and it started off from that . |
| 18 | It chewed the bloody snow , gulped the entrails and the gore , growled in its throat as it worked at the tough tissues . |