Example sentences of "work [adv prt] 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 | Keeping a car fully maintained at your local cost-a-lot garage can work out at a small fortune — and it never ends . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |