Example sentences of "[adv] to work [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | McIlvanney went on to work on the Scotsman as a news reporter and feature writer , though with his passion for football and boxing , the attraction towards sports was inevitable . |
| 2 | Very often pupils will benefit from the opportunity to see and handle , and discuss a few selected artefacts at close hand , before going on to work in the display galleries . |
| 3 | Henry Smith did not , however , follow this new British school , but chose rather to work in the theory of numbers and elliptic functions , in which the Germans were pre-eminent . |
| 4 | Normally , unless you have one of these keys , you would have to call the water company 's engineers if you wanted the mains turned off for any reason — perhaps to work on the mains stopcock inside the house . |
| 5 | Soon she would get down to work on the garden ; it would be something to do at the weekends . |
| 6 | I started to fix the tongue and groove boarding , and with a few boards in place , felt confident enough to work on the roof . |
| 7 | Gradually other women finished the insides of their houses and came outside to work in the sunlight . |
| 8 | The most obvious conclusion to draw here once again goes back to women 's domestic role , and in particular their tendency not to work outside the home , or to work part time , or to work in isolation ( home working , cleaning and so on ) . |
| 9 | The women 's movement was maturing too , as it slowly swung back to the acceptability of some women choosing not to work outside the home . |
| 10 | Protestors fighting plans to open a clinic for sex offenders have persuaded contractors not to work on the building . |
| 11 | He had opposed it along with the rest of the General Advisory Committee but it was no clear-cut moral stand : ‘ I never urged anyone not to work on the hydrogen bomb project , ’ he told the inquiry . |
| 12 | Joyce joined the advertising department as secretary in 1979 and moved to special projects eight years later to work in the department setting up the in-store coffee shops . |
| 13 | Most of our lodgers go out to work during the day , but Miss Hoffmann is not in good health . |
| 14 | Joanne , however , goes out to work during the day and is out nearly every night , while her mother looks after her eight-month-old daughter , so they spend little time together . |
| 15 | Trying to convince people the project was worth pursuing was not easy , and over a long period personal time had to be carved out to work on the project from time allocated to a variety of other activities ranging from textile fibres to films and even to electronics . |
| 16 | I had become more and more interested in the business world , going back to work at the bank in Newcastle during my vacations , so I was looking for a general business career . ’ |
| 17 | Then , there was nothing else to be done except get back to work in the cutting room at Paramount where he was working around the clock on The Two Jakes , for which the world of movie entertainment was waiting with bated breath ; because even though all of the above makes fascinating reading for everyone intrigued by Hollywood 's pop royalty , especially one so colourful and mercurial as Nicholson , it is the mere trivia , the overcoat of gloss and glitz , that hides the real Jack Nicholson … |
| 18 | News of the transfer produced a steady drift back to work in the Kuzbass and Vorkuta coalfields in the first days of May , at the same time as the strike in the Ukraine 's Donbass coalfield began to crumble . |
| 19 | ‘ People are coming back to work in the office downstairs from Monday , you know . |
| 20 | And really it was no joking matter : across the bridge John Chapman , nephew to a Market Place shoemaker , went back to work in the shop too soon after the flood , caught a chill in the process , and died in the April , aged just twenty-one . |
| 21 | One woman described how she had gone back to work after the death of her husband , determined to be brave . |
| 22 | ‘ Robert did n't say I must go back to work after the baby ’ , Lucy told me , ‘ but he began to be reluctant about switching on electric fires and looking disapproving if I did ’ . |
| 23 | If you go back to work before the end of 28 weeks and are then absent again , Statutory Sick Pay will be payable for each period of absence until your 28 weeks ' entitlement has been exhausted , provided you have not been back at work for more than 8 weeks . |
| 24 | Well to work at the weekend as well |