Example sentences of "[noun] working [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He was n't prepared to do anything else there no ar and he was he was to have these plant hire , you know these two , when when his old man used to work us us in the quarry , well this was working up there as well , he had lads working on the plant hire for him .
2 IT 'S killer bee time in the States and smart federal scientists have spent $100,000 working on the problem of how to track the swarms that ravage farming and kill anything in their way .
3 But with former Unlimited Gold winner Rick Brickert at the controls and Steve Hinton leading some mighty good wrenches working under the cowling , it 's a future-winning team .
4 Unfortunately , one of these Milnes cars working on the Sutton route , was the victim of the South Metropolitan 's only really serious accident .
5 Giving judgment in a case that has so far been heard in camera , Mr Justice Hoffmann ruled that Mr William Goodwin , a journalist working for The Engineer , must hand over his notes of a telephone conversation with his source .
6 A United States journalist working for the Tampa Tribune , Todd Smith , was kidnapped in the Upper Huallaga valley on Nov. 17 and subsequently found beaten and murdered in Uchiza , accused of being a US spy .
7 The irony of this statement would not have been lost on any Ghanaian journalist working in the period under Nkrumah from 1957 to 1966 , for this was exactly what happened to Ghana 's newspapers : they became sycophantic , uncritical mouthpieces for the president and his view of that country , Africa and the world .
8 With my mind working with the speed of desperation , it seemed I would be safest where I was till I could break away in the direction of the bus station .
9 Microsoft has also demonstrated voice mail working on the system — if you ca n't be bothered to type a message in , just record it instead !
10 Bass have spent months working on the deal and we 're told they will not even bother to attend tomorrow 's meeting of Premier clubs .
11 Most Welsh households included husbands working outside the home during the day .
12 As feminists , we need to have a way of looking at this work which makes us think about whose shattered lives and suffering produced the money used to pay her for her paintings — namely the poor rural workers of Britain and Ireland and the enslaved African peoples working in the West Indies and the American colonies .
13 At present valuations , the figure being asked is around three times the price valuers working for the county council expect for common land with ancient rights over it …
14 It sought to defend and protect proprietorial freedom yet it ‘ seemed to be defining press freedom as a wider , collective freedom of all journalists working in the press ’ .
15 In your professional practice you may have to carry out important and complex work , such as the writing of a critical report , in the noise of a factory or with a bulldozer working outside the window of your office .
16 While Special Branch sent along junior officers to transcribe proceedings at NL meetings in 1939 , the most important information we have on its activities is that procured by an intelligence agent working for the Board of Deputies of British Jews .
17 Azef , the leader of its ‘ fighting organization ’ , was exposed as a double agent working for the Okhrana .
18 In the autumn of 1955 , some six months after he had been in Berlin , Blake approached his superiors with the suggestion that he should pretend to become an agent working for the Russians .
19 ‘ RUC cell working against the IRA
20 The greater proportion of boys in the sample reflected more high scoring boys than girls being in the lower mathematics sets in the schools working with the project .
21 Opportunities working throughout the country in a career working for other people 's safety , as HM Inspector of Factories or HM Inspector of Agriculture
22 Being asked how much the foresaid are worth per annum , he says with the pasture belonging to the maintenance of the animals working in the plough teams they are worth per annum £17 . "
23 Leading designers working with the fibre include .
24 Other optical effects , such as the montaged graphics sequence showing the Doctor , Sara and Bret being ‘ matter transported ’ to Mira helped inspire the Effects Designers working on the stargate sequences for Kubrick 's 2001 : A Space Odyssey .
25 The city has more Chartered Designers working within the city boundary than the rest of Scotland has as a whole .
26 David Dorn , a nuclear physicist working for the Commission , was quoted in New York on Jan. 15 as saying that it was possible that Iraq possessed enough components for up to 10,000 gas centrifuges .
27 The Tour de France flashed before our eyes in a kaleidoscope of green jerseys , yellow jerseys , black bottoms and a pink-spotted ‘ King of the Mountains ’ ; close-ups of whirring wheels and legs working like the pistons of diesel engines , induction , compression , power and exhaust .
28 The Renaissance family epitaph from 1582 in the Archbishop 's Chapel ( 15 ) or Pernštejn family chapel was designed by Jan Vredeman de Vries , one of the most important of the northern Mannerists working at the court of Rudolf II .
29 The Sergeant Ammunition Technician RAOC working in the depot was first on the scene , and managed to evacuate the driver and passenger of the vehicle by German Fluey helicopter to the AMF(L) Italian Field Hospital .
30 Gilbert Edelson In 1962 I was an associate working with the law firm where the late Ralph Colin was a managing partner .
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