Example sentences of "they [vb base] work [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they seem to work on the principle of allowing each other to do anything they like . |
| 2 | Mothers leave older tumblers to enjoy group songs and rhymes before they start working on the equipment . |
| 3 | They have worked at the Halewood plant on Merseyside for 20 years . |
| 4 | They have worked on the basis of service , and certainly the hoteliers I know erm and their American visitors erm have a strong and excellent relationship because they do provide the service . |
| 5 | It is sad , first of all , that so many educated people miss all the fun that is in good science ; how many hours they spend at dinner parties with nothing substantial to pass the time , and how many acres of The Observer have been devoted to the to-ings and fro-ings of Guy Burgess and the annotated laundry lists of D. H. Lawrence , because the impeccably educated editors of that mercifully ailing rag do not know , after they have worked through the football and the statutory theatre crits , what is interesting . |
| 6 | Staff let us know how many days they have worked for the month . |
| 7 | Courses are generally run by two ESL specialists , one of whom is an experienced trainer but who does not necessarily have classroom teaching experience in the subject area being addressed while the second is chosen because they have worked in the subject area , usually as part of a language support team , but sometimes because they themselves have training and/or experience in the subject area . |
| 8 | They have to work with the materials on hand , but by manipulating the design of the system they can build variations into it . |