Example sentences of "[verb] to work at [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Since older miners were usually no longer fit to work at the coal-face and did less well-remunerated jobs on or near the surface , this meant that in old age — if they reached it — their pensions were to be a calculated on the basis of their more poorly paid years at work !
2 A 100-strong team of scientists has been picked to work at the company 's laboratories at Caswell , Towcester , producing the first 3 inch diameter GaAs wafers in the UK .
3 Our perception of the pub has to work at a number of levels — mostly obvious , but nonetheless worth clarifying .
4 I think at first it seemed to work at a disadvantage .
5 It seemed to work at the time .
6 The dufflecoat would have been the one he had worn when he first came to work at the Establishment .
7 Later he came to work at the house which was his first entry into Local Government .
8 I 'm not looking to work at the CFTC issue within the AFBD .
9 I did n't choose to work at the complex .
10 When he married he rented a rambling red-brick Georgian house two miles away and bicycled to work at the forge most days .
11 You could decide to work at a time when your partner or a friend is round to see the baby , or arrange for someone — a childminder or relative — to look after her for a few hours each week .
12 A hundred and thirty staff at a factory destroyed by fire have volunteered to work at the company 's plant in France .
13 The Saturday shift always seemed to drag on endlessly for the elderly night watchman and he envied people who did not have to work at the weekends .
14 Four black men armed with AK47 rifles killed the white man , Tony Concer , as he was being driven to work at a steel mill by a friend .
15 Molly and George needed to work at the adjustment .
16 Mrs Labno , mother of two sons , who lived in Moreton , Wirral , had hoped to work at the hospice .
17 Mrs Labno , mother of two sons , who lived in Moreton , Wirral , had hoped to work at the hospice .
18 NEW commissionaires have been appointed to work at the Barlaston Lodges .
19 The Rev. Thomas Tolming said that the Relieving Officer refused aid to deserving poor families who had children , considering that they ought to be put to work at the mine .
20 But I knew that it would be difficult to persuade Jimbo that he had to work at the exercises : yet if the treatment were to succeed , it had to be him — Jimbo himself — who , in the end , would reopen the pathway of nerves between brain and muscle .
21 Yeah , folk here just never been out since New Year , then she had to work at the hospital Tuesday , well Bradley said if you do n't feel fit enough phone up and we 'll send a nurse to you I said you 're bloody mental , you ask for everything you get , I said instead of phoning the nurse in , ah but I think Alison told me they both need a good , good bloody feed they do
22 Because of the nature of his studies he was sent to work at the Esso refinery at Fawley .
23 Any proposals to alter the situation faced by older workers have to work at a number of levels : developing new social roles ; using legislation to change attitudes ; improving work prospects ; raising income levels ; increasing the effectiveness of health and social policies .
24 I used to want to work at the violin , and I played it for two years .
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