Example sentences of "[pers pn] work [prep] the [noun] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For over twenty years I worked under the delusion that I was teaching maths . |
| 2 | I used sign language , and I worked on the assumption that all deaf people can lipread . |
| 3 | I worked in the communities that experienced the most painful impact of the first of the Government 's recessions in the 1980s . |
| 4 | ‘ I work on the principle that if it 's growing and looking healthy , pull it out . |
| 5 | One or two of them might be related to me , but I work on the assumption that my children will have access to most things and personal experience of some . |
| 6 | But you work on you work on the principle that you 'll only get that back and more . |
| 7 | We work on the principle that you should only pay for the services you need . |
| 8 | We work on the basis that we are not inflicting a footpath on the countryside but developing a footpath that is part and parcel of the landscape . |
| 9 | Right , so me and Jim had a chat the other day just looking at the the roadside entries and the counts and I was sort of saying if we work on the basis that we want between ten and twelve people , twelve people maximum |
| 10 | ‘ When it comes to hygiene , we work on the assumption that food brought in from outside is on dirty containers , so we dispense with all outside containers and we use a probe to ensure correct temperatures , ’ he explains . |
| 11 | Like the early Irish monks on the Sceilig rock ( like a prior , then , and abbess ) , we work in the certainty that nothing will intervene . |
| 12 | They work on the principle that most people pay up if they 're pestered for long enough . |
| 13 | He 's bowling with considerable pace there , did Lawrence , that wicket 's cheered him up and he was rushing in , he 's got his line right , round that off stump and plays a bit of a open face anyway , so those in the slip Gordon beware and the one that did get an edge , it flew through , both Ian Botham who 's at second and Graham Gooch , they both stand pretty close , they work on the theory that it 's better to drop them then to have them bouncing in front of you , but they could have been about five yards deeper in that , the one , that , that went flying through with the character . |
| 14 | It works on the principle that the pursuer will not be able to change direction as efficiently as the prey . |
| 15 | It works on the assumption that each side is willing to move from its starting point during the negotiations . |