Example sentences of "to work [adv] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To work merely at sentence level is to ignore crucially important aspects of text . |
| 2 | They attended the same school in Chelsea , became firm friends and many years later were to work together at Cambridge in the interests of botany . |
| 3 | He liked to work away at Latin or Greek , or to pick books of history or biography off the shelves . |
| 4 | This was especially the case in B , where staff were considered unapproachable , and where students were expected to work individually at labs : |
| 5 | It offers practical courses in the arts and crafts to those who wish to work mainly at home , yet take advantage of professional tutorial support . |
| 6 | So , just before his seventeenth birthday , a thin , gangly boy , but ( as Lionel Luyt remarked ) completely unselfconscious , with a nose still red from his operation , John Cranko began to work full-time at ballet . |
| 7 | But , Shelley , the idea was for you to work here at Monte Samana while he works at Santa Barbara . |
| 8 | Tom himself said it was because he had to work hard at school at subjects other than music , he could not devote himself wholeheartedly to the flute . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's about how you live and how you want your children to live , having certain attitudes , such as that it 's important to be polite and respect your elders and that you should want to work hard at school , ’ was one typical comment . |
| 10 | They would include : opportunities for students to see or experience equipment or processes which are not on offer within the institution ; the chance for a student to sample a possible future job or career ; the opportunity to learn something ( not much ) of the lives led in employment by their neighbours , their parents or their peer-group , so that they may grow up more understanding and more tolerant ( this rather pious hope may in fact be quite unjustified , they may have confirmed or developed disdain or envy for others ) ; a good student may catch the eye of an employer looking for a later recruit ; absence may lend enchantment to the view of the college and the students may return from work-experience reassured about their choice of education ; students may be motivated to work hard at college by the prospect of either securing a job like the one they have seen or tried , or by the determination to avoid a similar fate ; all these outcomes may be little more predictable than the consequences of going to the zoo for a visit . |
| 11 | Well , you 'll have to work hard at swimming . ’ |
| 12 | Is committed to work ecumenically at home and overseas . |
| 13 | Sometimes you 'll have to work late at night , because of time differences in New York and Tokyo . |