Example sentences of "and [pers pn] work [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used sign language , and I worked on the assumption that all deaf people can lipread . |
| 2 | Denis and I worked on the show each morning and on our final evening we performed it in ninety degree heat for a deeply moved and even more deeply biased audience of mutual families . |
| 3 | and I worked for the council so he spoke to me one day and he said , Will you cut the roads with a tractor and a mower . |
| 4 | And I worked in the pit bottom for a start , for about three or four months , in the pit bottom . |
| 5 | The woman with whom we boarded took pity on me and I worked in the house with her . |
| 6 | And I worked in the mother and baby home . |
| 7 | and you work on the computers what you 're gon na be and then it 'll be silly if they brought you to a nursery afterwards if you wanted to be |
| 8 | In your text book you 've got quite a lot of information in there about reinforcing , what we 're going to do in the practical session and it 's always a help I think when you have a lot of the , thrown at you to know that you can just put it up and there it is if you get a bit confusing or ca n't remember what 's what , so on page one six nine it starts telling you all about nursing and bandages and general hygiene which we 've already talked quite a lot about but it 's very useful for you to know , you can go there and look , and if you just go through the pages from there on one seventy , one seven one , one seven two , one seven three and then on one seven four it 's got the general rules for applying bandages apply bandages when the casualty is sitting or lying down , you always sit your casualty down and you work from the front of , I say why do you work from the front of the thing ? |
| 9 | ‘ And you work in the family business as well ? ’ |
| 10 | In fact , she was very old ; she was twenty-four years old and she worked in the mill and earned eight shillings a week . |
| 11 | She was a cleaner , more than once , and she worked in the hydroponics , and in kitchens . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Custom manufacturing , where the product is at an earlier stage of development and they work with the client in scale-up and production . |
| 14 | Ah , ah , and he works in the morgue |
| 15 | ‘ Michael ran a cab and he worked for the bookies on the side . |
| 16 | He was an engineer and erm he he was he made co , he worked on conveyers and things and then he changed his occupation became a civil servant and he worked at the Admiralty down on Templefields until it closed about ten years , cos my husband has been retired about five years now . |
| 17 | And for soon after that me father had to give up the mine be because of his health and he went to work at the depot er were the bus depot and he worked in the battery house where they made all the batteries up , charged the batteries for the buses , looked after the electrical side there was electrician , he were n't , me father were n't electrician but he was working with electrician but his main job was charging the batteries , putting them on in groups in the , in the er battery house and charging house , to keep all the batteries charged up for all the buses petrol buses tr and trolley buses . |
| 18 | The agency has corporate personality and it works under the supervision of parliament . |
| 19 | Sexism in language is one manifestation of the system , and it works to the disadvantage of women , not men . |
| 20 | Hopper was in deep depression again — his personal life had once again foundered , and it worked to the benefit of Nicholson . |