Example sentences of "started work [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 I only started work for the exam in February . ’
2 I er , in fact , we , yeah , we just had a problem yesterday , we started work for the Royal Scotsman and erm well we started work for them , like last year and we 've been doing jobs
3 I saw Sybil on ‘ Top of the Pops ’ the day before I started work on the book and she was wearing a gold bra top , huge fake-gold earrings and black trousers pulled in at the waist .
4 The first recorded Nonconformist Gothic chapel came in 1839 when Sir Charles Barry , who started work on the new Houses of Parliament the following year , designed a new church for Upper Brook Street Unitarian Chapel in Manchester , although the interior design still had the pulpit as the central feature against the east wall and facing the congregation .
5 Four key members of my original team joined me from Hawker Siddeley and we started work on the first batch of 25 robots .
6 A former actor , Cooke started work on the book after growing ever more frustrated at the lack of decent roles .
7 Fortunately , when he started work on the book , Mr Paterson found himself viewing his subject in a more favourable light .
8 Mobbs started work on the project in January 1971 ; in May 1972 the proposal was sent to the CNAA ; it was approved after a one-day visit in November 1972 and the first intake arrived in the autumn of 1973 .
9 The printer started work on the title/ Names fold , as in B , before copy for the Preface and the Prologue had been delivered to his shop — with the deadline looming , no doubt .
10 I started work on the dredger .
11 He struggled painfully around into a new foetal position and started work on the back of the back seat .
12 Perhaps the most sustained research into speech recognition has been carried out by the IBM speech group which started work on the production of a large vocabulary continuous speech recognition system in 1972 .
13 We started work on the carriage on the 3rd October 1992 .
14 And almost at once we started work on the Crabbe .
15 That 's when she started work on the biography — which she completed in just 4 weeks .
16 ICI 's Grangemouth Works started work on the objective with the appointment of a full-time Resource Conservation Manager .
17 The CCG team started work on the Channel Tunnel site in September 1987 and have built up until they are now catering for some 6,000 workers at two locations — Upper and Lower Shakespeare Cliff .
18 Harold explained that the house was empty , and at that moment a second fire engine arrived from Nidden , and started work at the side of the building where the flames seemed thickest .
19 Richard , who started work at the University in 1969 as assistant cook in the halls of residence , has been Assistant Catering Manager since 1973 , based at the Revis Barber and Dennis Bellamy Halls , where his deputy , head cook Ian Wade has been ruling the kitchens for 24 years .
20 He started work at the Stationers ' Company School , London , in 1874 , and by the time he took up a post at Grantham Grammar School in 1884 he had already taught in Saffron Walden , Winchester , Newbury , and Cambridge .
21 Emma started work at the age of fourteen for the London Ladies ' Co-operative Guild , a group of professional women who designed and decorated glass tables .
22 , cuber operator at Preston , started work at the Gregson Lane corn mill in September 1967 , then part of .
23 Safeall Security started work at the Silverhill plant on September 6 — just four days after their contract with the City Council was terminated .
24 Brenda Holmes , Age Concern 's deputy chief officer who started work as the scheme co-ordinator five-and-a-half years ago , said their efforts had been rewarded .
25 Leslie started work with the Home and Colonial Store in Chapel Street , Petersfield in 1926 , delivering groceries .
26 Margaret , seen here with Catherine McCutheon , Matt Dysart and Isobel McLuckie , started work with the company in 1967 at Hyster in Irvine , and moved to Douglas , Reyburn in September 1972 .
27 In April 1987 Neuyen Chi Hoi started work in the canteen of an East Berlin shoe factory .
28 They started work in the restaurants , supermarkets and hotels , and many still work in such establishments .
29 The turning-point in what became a distinguished career came on 22 February 1897 , when he started work in the drawing office of the Metropolitan Railway Company at Neasden works , where he pursued both mechanics and architecture , being ultimately appointed as assistant to the chief surveyor and architect .
30 Alice Foley remembered that her family was able to move into a better house as soon as her sister started work in the mill .
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