Example sentences of "to work [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They rode together , hawked together , played chess together , and to work off the convalescent 's stiffness as his wounds healed , essayed a little mild sword-play together . |
| 2 | Physical exercise also has the capacity to be used to attempt to control emotional feelings , to work off the calories consumed in food and to control body size . |
| 3 | However , the Japanese Energy Agency later admitted that an emergency pressure release valve had failed to work during the shutdown process , forcing technicians to use a back-up water sprinkler system . |
| 4 | Although many part-time workers are used , and others migrate into the region to work during the holiday season , many become unemployed for over half the year . |
| 5 | The challenge involves a variety of modes of transport and the time taken for a particular journey , typically a journey to work during the rush hour . |
| 6 | Most of our lodgers go out to work during the day , but Miss Hoffmann is not in good health . |
| 7 | Joanne , however , goes out to work during the day and is out nearly every night , while her mother looks after her eight-month-old daughter , so they spend little time together . |
| 8 | Difficulties in negotiating wage rates led to the controversial recruitment of labourers from St Vincent to work during the harvest . |
| 9 | Evening courses were arranged on all sorts of subjects , which we as shift workers were unfortunately not able to take advantage of fully , as we had to work during the evenings . |
| 10 | Last month , Iran 's new leader , President Hashemi Rafsanjani , offered to work for the release of the American hostages held by Islamic extremists in Lebanon along with 10 other foreigners . |
| 11 | Its immediate economic aim was to work for the reduction and eventual elimination of tariffs on most industrial goods among its members . |
| 12 | In a romantic , rather cloying story of an English family , the authoress Jan Struther ( Joyce Anstruther ) showed how things had changed : A new community feeling was being expressed and those keen to work for the development of State initiatives were quick to feed on it ( Marwick , 1968 ) . |
| 13 | Nicholson had never carried out his threat to sue , though Hugo had endured some worrying weeks waiting to see if papers would be served on him , and the experience had made him determined never to work for the likes of Nicholson again . |
| 14 | She was not , she told Mrs Arbuthnot , prepared to work for the likes of her . |
| 15 | For example , in attracting individuals to work for the firm , salary and other individual rewards are very important . |
| 16 | According to the family he rarely used it except on Sundays when he spent the afternoon and evening with an old chap who used to work for the firm and now lives in sheltered accommodation at Carbis Bay . |
| 17 | I wonder how you can bring yourself to work for the society . ’ |
| 18 | What made you choose to work for the holiday complex ? |
| 19 | Schwabe arranged for him to work for the Clyde engineering and shipbuilding firm of J. & G. Thomson , who were building ships for Bibby . |
| 20 | ‘ I used to work for the bugger — you know that , do n't you ? ’ |
| 21 | She went on to work for the Friends ' Committee in France , Austria , Poland , and Greece . |
| 22 | Soon after the Second World War , in which he worked with ENSA ( or ‘ Every-Night-Something-Awful ’ , as he called it ) , he came to work for the music publishing firm of R. Smith and Co Ltd and served as editor of British Bandsman ( the brass band world 's leading newspaper since 1887 ) for 15 years . |
| 23 | And she used to work for the TSB bank . ’ |
| 24 | Such bodies are set up outside government partly so that they can attract skilled personnel who might not be prepared to work for the core of government ; so that they can develop a high level of expertise in the area they are responsible for ; and so that they can develop policy in an atmosphere divorced from direct party political pressures . |
| 25 | McAllister , who had put the doll down , and was now fetching out her work basket to embroider pansies on some fine lawn dresses made for the bazaar by the aforesaid ladies , said , ‘ I did n't mean to become involved , you know , but Matey has been so kind to me — when not slave-driving me , you understand — that when she asked me to accompany her I had not the heart to refuse , and strangely , after I began to work for the bazaar , I found that it was most rewarding . ’ |
| 26 | In fact , liberal or not , she has come back to work for the ANC , though her exact capacity is not made clear . |
| 27 | The functions , including in particular those to be carried out for the direct benefit of individual members of the public , such as social services , may require the borrowing of money and do require the recruiting and employment of many men and women to work for the council . |
| 28 | such permanent staff continue to work for the Council if they wish to do so ; and , where possible , |
| 29 | According to Marx 's theory the many different units were willing to unite and contribute their labour to work for the despot because this appeared , not as working for him , but as working for ‘ the higher unity ’ , which , they wrongly believed , was the source of their continued existence . |
| 30 | ‘ But he used to work for the gas board , did n't he ? ’ said the boy . |