Example sentences of "[verb] work [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Historical biographers tend to work within their own national boundaries , and to prefer as subjects the Good Kings of national history . |
| 2 | And if anyone is callous enough to check on that story then I would n't want to work for them anyway . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't want to work for you , I 'm employed very nicely working for myself and the name of Morgan is respected already in town , which is more than can be said for that of the Grenfells . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't want to work for you ! |
| 5 | He might turn up he might turn up and then say no sorry twenty grand forget it , do n't want to work for you anyway . |
| 6 | Let him take his chauffeur 's cap off very slowly and say softly to me , ‘ oh sir , I do n't never want to work for anyone else , never ’ ; let him kneel by the side of the great bed , in the moonlight , and let him lean over to kiss me gently on the lips and to run his leather-gloved hand tenderly across my cheek , across my lips , through my hair , saying all the time , ‘ oh sir , I 'm here sir , I 'm right here , I 'm right here by the bed ; was you calling me sir , did you call me ? ’ |
| 7 | No matter how badly your set goes , if you have a professional attitude to your work and a friendly disposition , you will find that people will want to work with you again . |
| 8 | Other Greeks do not want to work in them ; they prefer the little shop , the handyman 's job , doing something for cousin Yannis . |
| 9 | You might want to work in it . |
| 10 | Although I had not intended to work on her aura , my hands began to scan the energy field surrounding her physical body . |
| 11 | ‘ Say what you like , there 's no way I 'm going to agree to work for you for three years . |
| 12 | Her regular shopping trip to get the food for the Sabbath was something she always enjoyed as the prelude to the best part of the week with its special evening meal , its rituals , her zeide 's stories of his life in Lithuania — no matter how oft repeated — and of course not having to go to work in her father 's store . |
| 13 | The hon. Gentleman mentioned the first ; in my original answer , I showed how we intend to work towards it . |
| 14 | Under the IVA , the debtor intends to continue to work in his or her business , so income would continue to be generated and made available to creditors . |
| 15 | After that Professor Costall got to work on what has been affectionately termed her ‘ Costallisation ’ of the University . |
| 16 | TV comic Roseanne Arnold , who recently had her nose bobbed and her boobs reduced , got to work on her son Jake at a Los Angeles premiere of the Walt Disney movie The Mighty Ducks . |
| 17 | The idea of pursuing a solo career had been in Sharon Shannon 's mind for a long while — but now the time was right she already had a seminal piece of super session recording under her belt and now , with John Dunford — who 'd been centrally involved with The Waterboys throughout their Irish sojourn as sound and recording engineer — in charge of production , she got to work on her solo album . |
| 18 | That was the Commissioner 's first thought , and Scotland Yard got to work on it straight away . |
| 19 | In Alderney he finally and grudgingly got to work on his autobiography , Basingstoke Boy , using only the third person . |
| 20 | Er got to work through it , new |
| 21 | Even before the pathologist had finished at the scene and the head was wrapped , the hands mittened in their plastic bags , even before Doc Kynaston got to work with his scalpels , the corpse would be an exhibit , more important , more cumbersome and more difficult to preserve than other exhibits in the case , but still an exhibit , tagged , documented , dehumanized , invoking only interest , curiosity or disgust . |
| 22 | The Sinn Fein man claimed two plain-clothes men approached Mr Fox in Thomas Street , Dungannon on September 2 and promised him a new house if he agreed to work for them . |
| 23 | Ramani Leathard agreed to work with them . |
| 24 | Oh , see if anyone wants to work with me today . |
| 25 | His civil status also means he can choose whether or not he wants to work during his sentence . |
| 26 | But I loved their products and was dying to work for them . ’ |
| 27 | Mrs T also tried to work with her , but found her very vague . |
| 28 | If you want in Colossians chapter one in verse twenty seven , it 's , it 's given again very simply , again can I use J B Phillips , he puts it like this , he says the secret is simply this , Christ in you yes he says Christ in you , bringing with him the hope of all the glorious things to come , so what God does he comes in to this situation that 's marred that 's warped , that 's twisted and he comes in by himse , Jesus Christ comes into it , he becomes the central point , the focal point and that circle , it starts to get dealt with , that marred twisted like , it does n't happen being like that , we knew creation straight away , we do n't have to work at that , but he , as we allow him to dwell in us and to work out his purpose , he restores that relationship with God and God starts to fashion us , he starts to work on us and bring us back into how he originally created us . |
| 29 | What should I do when an employee starts to work with us ? |
| 30 | ‘ Because I want to work for myself . |