Example sentences of "they work [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They also had magnifying glasses to help them with the extraordinarily fine detail which they worked into the seal images : some lenses were found in a Middle Minoan tomb at Knossos . |
| 2 | During these weeks Seb rarely saw Carrie , except for a few hours each Sunday when they worked on the farm ledgers together at the Hankses ' cottage , and even here they were rarely alone . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , quite apart from their value as a temporary measure to kick-start a move to overcome corporate cultural stereotypes , it was argued convincingly that at an operational level they worked as a performance standard on managers , making them work harder to find , encourage and develop female high-fliers . |
| 4 | They work on a commission basis . |
| 5 | These are the invisible sans-papiers , the ones nobody sees because they work through the daylight hours or are virtual prisoners . |
| 6 | No , well , there are , they work as a bain marie . |
| 7 | Often the set lunches are so cheap , in fact , that they work as a loss leader — a taster to tempt people back in the evening . |