Example sentences of "it was work [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet he realised how important it was to work with the Russians and he had no intention of disrupting the wartime alliance . |
| 2 | It was a straw bonnet , biscuit-coloured and it was worked round the edges with red ; I suppose it was thin cord ; but it had red round it and red on the top . |
| 3 | In the middle and upper classes at least , children stayed " children " for longer ( it was harder for a child to remain so when it was working at the age of 12 or 13 ) ; girls and young women were more shielded from experience outside the home ; parents were , on the whole , stricter and more repressive . |
| 4 | Erm a lot of it was working on the side . |
| 5 | From then on , it was working around the clock with tons of gear filling 3 huge lorries . |