Example sentences of "[pron] work on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Billeting allocation was frequently chaotic : host families could be hostile ; children might be selected according to their good looks and manners ; in rural areas , farmers often gleefully snapped up the strongest boys and set them to work on the land . |
| 2 | Would n't leave me all through the following night as I worked on the glass . |
| 3 | It should be clear to anybody that the basic idea behind the prison system is corrupt and unjust , but the more I worked on the film , the more I understood how extreme the injustice was . |
| 4 | I worked on the course green-keeping in the winter at Birkdale , and spent all summer caddying . |
| 5 | I used sign language , and I worked on the assumption that all deaf people can lipread . |
| 6 | I worked on the tension suggested and under considerable tension on my part . |
| 7 | Later on I worked on the twilight shift in a components factory and as our kids grew up people moved out and others moved in . |
| 8 | So I worked on the farm with Mr and Mrs Parks . |
| 9 | When I tired of writing press releases on new lube concepts I left Wartberg 's valve business to go to the Angstrom Corporation , where I worked on the launch of a new biscuit , the Pink Finger . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I told him I worked on the Menai Suspension Bridge . |
| 12 | You see , usually I worked on the accounts and managed the estate . |
| 13 | And I worked on the till this morning I said to . |
| 14 | In this notebook , recording my random thoughts day after day as I work on the big glass , I can keep my distance from the big glass . |
| 15 | Either I work on the big glass , he wrote , or my life is not worth living . |
| 16 | One or two of them might be related to me , but I work on the assumption that my children will have access to most things and personal experience of some . |
| 17 | I work on the face now , and there are always dodgy situations when a lump of rock falls and just misses you . |
| 18 | ‘ I work on the principle that if it 's growing and looking healthy , pull it out . |
| 19 | ‘ I work on the farm sometimes . |
| 20 | If I work on the game , I can get £150 in one night . ’ |
| 21 | I know the answer I will always get , but I work on the dripping water principle . |
| 22 | I work on the second floor . |
| 23 | I working on the training timber directly for horses , and then talk about cereal |
| 24 | The second element was that I had just started working at the London School of Economics in October 1970 , which was exactly the same time as GLF started meeting there and LSE was in one of its periods of turmoil which involved me as someone working on the staff and excited me politically . |
| 25 | The foundry 's most famous loco was the Derwent of 1845 , which worked on the S&DR until the 1860s and soldiered on at a colliery until 1891 . |
| 26 | Under one company scheme — which works on the basis that the employee moves into an area of higher cost housing but into a similar property — the company pays half the additional mortgage cost for the first two years from the date of the move . |
| 27 | Edmonds , the exclusive Knightsbridge hair salon , offer head and scalp massage with essential oils which work on the pressure points used in shiatsu and acupuncture , to relieve stress and tension . |
| 28 | And if your skin is at all fair or sensitive , you should n't start off with anything less than an SPF 15 suncream. remember there are two kinds of rays from the sun — UVB rays which work on the skin surface and can burn , and UVA , the deeply penetrating rays which damage and age the skin . |
| 29 | There are various hand pumps which work on the same principle . |
| 30 | ‘ My ole man got upset an' 'e told me ter get rid o' the bloody fing before 'e got 'ome from work ternight. 'E works on the trams , yer see , ’ the woman explained . |