Example sentences of "they work [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At great length , and with considerable idealistic heart-searching , they worked through the various problems and anomalies of the paper in comparison with its rival newspapers . |
| 2 | Mr Tommy Brennan , stewards ' convenor , says they worked during the 1984-1985 miners strike — incurring the wrath of the NUM — after management warned that any cool down would threaten the works . |
| 3 | They worked on the following week 's agenda until mid-morning , only breaking when Fred was called away . |
| 4 | In the back rooms of Whitehall , where they worked on the knotty problem of what to do in a national emergency , there was a file on the likely effects of German air attacks on London . |
| 5 | Every day they worked on the old scores . |
| 6 | Even when they worked in the same industry they were often employed in quite different processes : in copper mining for example at the surface not underground , and were separately waged . |
| 7 | They worked in the same office , they ate their lunch together , they went down the Lane on Sundays and the Roman Road on Fridays . |
| 8 | Compression joints are not the same as those used for copper pipe though they work on a similar principle . |
| 9 | cos they did , they work on a softer approach you know the police , they 're not , they 're not on the hard |
| 10 | If and when they work on the tacit assumption or make such a blatant assertion as that , that there is no longer any poverty , because it is not true and unless and until it is true neither they nor we have got any right to be content . |
| 11 | They get to work , it started off one of these days did n't it so the lift 's out of order and they work on the top floor , so they 've now got to run up all those stairs , the energy is being used up . |
| 12 | Which they work on the same system as a as a rotovator . |
| 13 | If if a material conducts electricity well , it conducts heat well because it 's very there there there they work on the same process . |
| 14 | Some committee clerks come to have an important role , especially when they work with the same committee and the same chairman for some time . |
| 15 | They work under the grim threat that armed and dangerous rebels could pick them off at any time . |
| 16 | Can I suggest that they probably simply do not know , they work in a particular way , a particular level . |
| 17 | We can continue to gain services at a price that leads to the exploitation of some fellow citizens , whether they work in the private sector , such as in hotels , or in the public sector , as in the health services . |
| 18 | Okay , now I 've just used this one example , but if you look at erm each other and one another there is also a reflective pronoun to find that they work in the same way in the appropriate antecedents and it also works for quantifier pronoun relations every girl admires herself which is fine but herself admired every girl does n't make a whole lot of sense . |