Example sentences of "work [adv] at a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well we went into the Rifle Brigade Barracks at Winchester and used to work out at a big house outside of Winchester so we had to march out there and then at the time of Dunkirk , they were looking for places to put all the soldiers that they 'd brought and er , we were cleared out of Barnet , er out of Winchester Barracks and posted up to Nottingham and we worked in the factory , which was taken over by the Army then and erm , and then whilst there , I suppose that was about nineteen what , about nineteen fo coming up to nineteen forty two , they decided to have a recheck or rethink on medicals , so we were all subject to another medical and they put me back to A one and says , right we 're getting rid of all A one personnel out of the Pay Corp , you have a choice Royal Army Ordnance Corp or the Royal Artillery . |
| 2 | It is possible to work hard at a complete system and get very little from it because of interference by other predators . |
| 3 | Keeping a car fully maintained at your local cost-a-lot garage can work out at a small fortune — and it never ends . |
| 4 | Of course , very often garments require a number of stitches that do not work out at a neat number of pattern repeats , so you do n't HAVE to much patterns at side seams . |
| 5 | When the late Conservative administration did its sums at the end of 1963 it found that its future programme worked out at an annual rate of increase of 4.1 per cent . |
| 6 | Allitt had worked regularly at an old people 's home and been spotted by an auxiliary nurse one night giving an injection to a 73-year-old diabetic , Dorothy Lowe . |
| 7 | If you have found work elsewhere at a lower salary before the hearing , the tribunal will have to project your loss forward for whatever period it considers appropriate . |
| 8 | ‘ To be honest , I 'm more concerned about getting a good night 's sleep , ’ says a pregnant woman , who 's working full-time at a demanding job . |
| 9 | ‘ If one averages this out at around £41 per soldier per week for 1,000 troops the annual cost works out at a mere £2.1m — a long way short of the £365m claimed for propaganda purposes . ’ |
| 10 | William Day had been working late at a nearby farm . |