Example sentences of "[verb] work on [det] " in BNC.

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1 As children we tend to work on this and practise asking for what we want at every available opportunity .
2 When you join the Royal Air Force you expect to work on some of the world 's deadliest aircraft , Jaguar Fighters , and harriers , but there 's another side to aviation .
3 During the day there was a factory and you used to have to make boxes , or if you were a cleaner you used to have to scrub the landings and everything , or there was a farm and you could work there — but you used to have to be really trusted to work on that .
4 Andrew Wilton 's conception of the show is designed to work on several levels , and should be ‘ genuinely accessible ’ to the non-specialist visitor in terms of the beauty and importance of the objects while offering a coherent reading to the specialist .
5 John joined the company in 1978 and has worked on several platforms including [ Auk A. Brent A ] and [ C. Forties A.B C ] and D , the [ Hutton TLP , Murchison ] and [ Beatrice A ] and B.
6 Except I think just to emphasize one or two minor issues but the savings from last year , that was the underspendings from ninety two ninety three were , as you recall last year er used to support this year 's budget er those savings underspending are no longer available and therefore have been taken out of the consideration The staff costs for T S G schemes that are mentioned at the bottom of page five erm , the programme this year which is actually listed over the page at table two does erm indicate that erm we are now contemplating link road and bypass next year and staff available are needed to complete that work or fortunately we 've been able to secure a start on which enables some of the staff to be transferred to work on that scheme .
7 She 'd worked on that , rubbing them hard .
8 Dad was a regular churchgoer himself , a sidesman , so it just would not do for him to be seen working on such a special day in the Church Calendar .
9 ‘ I 've got to work on some stuff for an article , ’ she said .
10 Emphatic statements of interest ( ‘ I would like to work on this project ’ )
11 Can we measure the actual copying fidelity on the ground , before natural selection gets to work on each new generation of genes ?
12 Now , to cover all eventualities , I at once began to work on both lungs .
13 Before the next interview get to work on any weaknesses shown up on your checklist .
14 ‘ I can not stop working on this just because it is dangerous .
15 I remember working on that one and I did it because all this lot was a , .
16 I I remember working on some of the of the paperwork involved in it .
17 We will need , we we 'll have to work on this which will involve the philosophy of having er perhaps a joint statement and perhaps on putting a short personal statement in .
18 It made me realize I 'd actually have to work on these aspects .
19 ‘ The builder 's men coming to work on this wall .
20 Since I started to work on this chapter somewhere back in early 1989 a lot has happened .
21 I decided to work on these two things .
22 While the debate has continued , women have felt compelled to work on both strategies , depending on their local situations and , of course , their own vocational preferences .
23 In Britain , there are two principal alternatives that have been proved to work on many occasions .
24 Joining our graduate training programme will give you the specialised skills and knowledge needed to work on such sophisticated design and operations .
25 ‘ She 's only been here a couple of times , when I needed to work on some papers very urgently . ’
26 They must have worked on that one at Liverpool .
27 He said , ‘ I can see you have worked on this opera for many months and concentrated very hard .
28 FIGURE 2 It soon became apparent when I started working on this quick landscape sketch that the Polychromos Pastels are equally well suited to a more painterly method of handling too
29 No he said she 's gone to work on that bike .
30 I rather wish he had gone to work on some of the astonishing things Escoffier and his contemporaries did to fruit .
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