Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] work [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I expect you to work on the assignments you owe me at home !
2 Fragmented evidence suggests that questions about married women 's reasons for taking jobs tap the normative tip of the iceberg — that women say they work for the money because this is the socially acceptable reason .
3 Let me work in the sergeant 's mess , and I 'll come to you every day to entertain you . ’
4 Billeting allocation was frequently chaotic : host families could be hostile ; children might be selected according to their good looks and manners ; in rural areas , farmers often gleefully snapped up the strongest boys and set them to work on the land .
5 Our present mayoress of Lewes , Mavis Askew , who 's done a sterling work as secretary of this new association , and that 's a very worthwhile project , and I believe she works in the library here .
6 It was the same with the herring gutters that was here , I mind them working on the pier down here , and they all had their fingers tied up with Clotes There was the skill that work in this .
7 Do you work for the company ? ’
8 Do you work in the city ? ’
9 In your text book you 've got quite a lot of information in there about reinforcing , what we 're going to do in the practical session and it 's always a help I think when you have a lot of the , thrown at you to know that you can just put it up and there it is if you get a bit confusing or ca n't remember what 's what , so on page one six nine it starts telling you all about nursing and bandages and general hygiene which we 've already talked quite a lot about but it 's very useful for you to know , you can go there and look , and if you just go through the pages from there on one seventy , one seven one , one seven two , one seven three and then on one seven four it 's got the general rules for applying bandages apply bandages when the casualty is sitting or lying down , you always sit your casualty down and you work from the front of , I say why do you work from the front of the thing ?
10 You 've worked am I right in saying , have you worked on the flats You 'd had contact had you , with people in the flats erm prior
11 Erm , have you had any jobs in the past , have you worked in the past ?
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