Example sentences of "[vb past] work on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are frequent occasions in a drama session when children are divided into groups and asked to work on a task . |
| 2 | Whistling to himself , Henry laid the table , while , in the corner of the kitchen , Maisie finished her last chocolate bar and got to work on a packet of crisps , a tube of Rollos , half a pound of jellybabies and a jumbo bar of Turkish delight . |
| 3 | Before she should have a chance to wake and discover the edenwort , Henry got to work on the supper . |
| 4 | So the GEC approach was blocked while BOC 's lawyers got to work on the proposed take-over . |
| 5 | As the churning mass swelled within him his resilient Goblin digestive system got to work on the over-abundance of raw material . |
| 6 | The Superintendent got to work on the telephone . |
| 7 | So I joined the half-dozen speechless loners and got to work on the Sidecars . |
| 8 | Trade relations were also discussed with Ivan Silayev , chair of the Interstate Economic Committee and both sides agreed to work on a long-term trade co-operation treaty . |
| 9 | Thus , for example , the student with difficulty revising , having drawn up his plan of action , agreed to work on the first item on his list and not to be side-tracked into attempting other items at the same time . |
| 10 | Once back in her office , she tried to work on the promotion of Hindley Foster 's book , but found she was unable to concentrate . |
| 11 | Russia and Ukraine agreed on Aug. 29 to abide by their treaty of Nov. 19 , 1990 , guaranteeing borders , and promised to work on an economic agreement with the " states-subjects of the former Soviet Union " . |
| 12 | The first part involved full time study for six months , from January to June , and the second part , which finished in November , involved working on a supervised project . |
| 13 | The process is known as convection , and it is widely , but not universally , believed to work on a huge scale in the mantle . |
| 14 | This study highlighted a number of problems that family farmers faced when a member of the family came to work on the farm so perhaps it was an opportune time to look at this in more detail . |
| 15 | Martha had been attracted to Bob Lamb since the shepherd first came to work on the farm the previous November . |
| 16 | She is exactly the same age as Mrs Smith and came to Britain from Jamaica in 1957 as a 20-year old with her father ( a skilled motor mechanic who came to work on the London buses ) , her mother and her three brothers . |
| 17 | Grandfather James Hauxwell met Grandmother Elizabeth , who was a Bayles , when he came to work on the building of the reservoir , just below Low Birk Hatt . |
| 18 | She 'd worked on a woman 's magazine . |
| 19 | My father would explain how he dreamed about the ill and how , for instance , in the case of Bobby Bowen 's hand , paralysed after a pit accident , he 'd worked on the fingers for days without success until , in a dream , the answer had come . |
| 20 | Immigrants , some of them Indian Tamils , arrived to work on the new estates . |
| 21 | Cusick even goes so far as to venture an empathy between the teams Verity Lambert assembled to work on the series . |
| 22 | Besides , it took time to get the formula right ; one dose began to work on the notes alter only 24 hours . |
| 23 | He began to work on the body , aiming for the solar plexus all the time . |
| 24 | Eventually he shrugged , drew out his skeleton-key pouch and began to work on the lock . |
| 25 | Beginning in September they began to work on the current German and Austrian week ( 17 to 21 May ) searching for consignments spanning the centuries and media . |
| 26 | Having decided that the vantage point for the watercolour in Figure 1 was the right one I then began to work on the overall design of the final work . |
| 27 | I began to work on the dog with all I had . |
| 28 | We all enjoyed working on the item devised by Edith for the reunion and look forward to learning another item this year . |
| 29 | Robert referred to the recommendations and suggestions made by Alison Precious and Karen Jessop after the time they spent working on the reception desk and mentioned particularly the question of resiting the switchboard . |
| 30 | She adored working on the million pound project which was predicted would rival Paul Hogan 's Crocodile Dundee smashes . |