Example sentences of "he [vb mod] work [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mm yes , erm since the home office secretary 's initiative it 's progressing quite well , with interest from certainly Bassett , Newark Stanton on the Wolds Tollerton and some other of the rural Coldfield areas were interested in going forward , Bassett looked very very interested , we went to a meeting last night , eighteen parish councils were represented , er Beckingham is going to be the first one , they 've got a special that lives there who 's gon na take up the work , Superintendent came down last night to do a circular of em a questionnaire around the village and parish to get find out what people want , and then go and see what the specials able to provide and meet the two together and get some sort of contractive agreement , he 'll work from the police house there , he 'll have access to the car , when it 's not being used by the rural officer , also his radio . |
| 2 | He 'd asked if he could work on the girl , but Frick had refused . |
| 3 | He could work from the model here , a great improvement on the parsonage . |
| 4 | ‘ But he used to work for the gas board , did n't he ? ’ said the boy . |
| 5 | He used to work in the dock 's offices . |
| 6 | He would work on the mathematics of implosion until , in the late afternoon , he cleared his desk , and took his briefcase , with empty sandwich box and empty coffee flask , to his car , and drove home . |
| 7 | On odd days he would work on the novel . |
| 8 | He would work on the client by suggesting what he wanted to hear and the client would be entranced . |
| 9 | PRAGUE ( Reuter ) — The Czechoslovak dissident playwright Vaclav Havel said he had received a message from Poland 's Prime Minister , Tadeusz Mazowiecki , that he would work for the release of two Czechoslovak human rights campaigners , Jan Carnogursky and Miroslav Kusy . |