Example sentences of "have [vb pp] work [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The third set of attitudes relate to those who are known to my Asian colleagues as the ‘ muesli missionaries ’ ( as in ‘ Miranda had an unhappy love affair/acne/a need to save the world , so she has gone to work with the ethnic minorities ’ . ) |
| 2 | A recently qualified medical student from St. Mary 's , C. G. Paine , who had been taught by Fleming and who had gone to work in the Royal Infirmary at Sheffield , obtained a sample of the mould from his former teacher and carried out some clinical experiments with it . |
| 3 | Although Fair Isle is officially part of Shetland , and I had been a keen birdwatcher since I was a boy , I had never had the opportunity to visit the island until I had started to work for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds . |
| 4 | Owen 's mind had begun to work on the same lines . |
| 5 | To make money in engineering contracting you have got to work at the blue chip end of the market , people who want a top class value-for-money service and are prepared to pay a reasonable price for it . |