Example sentences of "[pron] work [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're asking me to work round the police department here . ’ |
| 2 | It is suggested that pupils choose a person whose Christian commitment has led him/her to work for the good of others , thus making a link with the Christian vocation to alleviate suffering and/or the work of Christians in relation to respect for human life ( both indicated in L.0.2 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Not only did they need access to the non-arable resources controlled by the nobility , but their ever-growing land shortage compelled them to work for the nobility on conditions which had much in common with those of serfdom . |
| 5 | It is also notable that where a chairman or chief executive has been brought in from outside to those organisations , this may be followed by many changes in senior management and so , from the headhunters ' point of view , putting a chief executive into an older-style organisation is usually an opportunity for them to work with the newly appointed chief executive to build the new senior management team . |
| 6 | During the hay and silage making that summer farmers had to wear dust masks to allow them to work in the dust . |
| 7 | We might , therefore , expect them to work in the same sort of way as the visual system . |
| 8 | The twins go to school at 8.45 , and I leave just after them to work in the library . ’ |
| 9 | Many health policies in Third World countries are based on at least the vocabulary of this approach though the political climate does not always encourage such radical rethinking of health care nor does the training of most health workers prepare them to work in the new ways implied in the PHC philosophy . |
| 10 | Even Mahmoud , however , could not get them to work in the afternoons and he too , like Owen , normally used the afternoons to catch up on desk work and reading . |
| 11 | For over twenty years I worked under the delusion that I was teaching maths . |
| 12 | ‘ I worked through the night to get them done and then drove to her house where she was confined to bed , ’ says Alan . |
| 13 | The particular one hundred words in this case categories as follows : this is the order in which I worked through the set . |
| 14 | I explained that I worked during the winter for a golf-mad stockbroker called Andrew Buccleuth whom I had met during my year on the amateur circuit . |
| 15 | The Wheel Tapper pub behind the railway station in Taunton was my haven when I worked at the art college there in the late 1960s and early 1970s . |
| 16 | I worked at the billeting office until the school reopened . |
| 17 | I worked at the London Palace Hotel as a chambermaid for three years . |
| 18 | Because of the hours I worked at the newspaper office I hardly ever saw any television . |
| 19 | Earlies er when I worked at the Ford Motor Company it meant getting from Ilford to Dagenham and starting on a machine at six A M in the morning , in the middle of winter or the middle of summer . |
| 20 | , I was seventeen , I worked at the Flying Horse . |
| 21 | ‘ I worked at the Bank of Scotland on a three-week attachment in my fifth year at school , ’ he recalls . |
| 22 | For I worked at the council they were trying to make a road there then . |
| 23 | I worked at the Star Club and some other clubs in Hamburg . |
| 24 | When I worked at the General , doctor 's who shall be name less used |
| 25 | Most days , I worked into the early hours , leaving little time to spend with Joan . |
| 26 | I worked for the rest of the morning and in the late afternoon , rang Highbury to tell them I was safely back and ask how they fared . |
| 27 | She says : ‘ I worked for the maddest of them all , a man who had given his secretary and his assistant ulcers . |
| 28 | I use to dread going in to work — in the two years I worked for the Inland Revenue I do not think I worked a full month — and in the end I left . |
| 29 | When I worked for the Daily Telegraph , the editor , Bill Deedes , would say that he never missed the letters column of the Guardian . |
| 30 | Later I tell C that if I worked for the Daily Star , I 'd have my story already . |