Example sentences of "[pron] work [prep] the [noun] " 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 | During the hay and silage making that summer farmers had to wear dust masks to allow them to work in the dust . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The twins go to school at 8.45 , and I leave just after them to work in the library . ’ |
| 8 | For over twenty years I worked under the delusion that I was teaching maths . |
| 9 | ‘ I worked through the night to get them done and then drove to her house where she was confined to bed , ’ says Alan . |
| 10 | The particular one hundred words in this case categories as follows : this is the order in which I worked through the set . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Because of the hours I worked at the newspaper office I hardly ever saw any television . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I worked at the London Palace Hotel as a chambermaid for three years . |
| 15 | For I worked at the council they were trying to make a road there then . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ I worked at the Bank of Scotland on a three-week attachment in my fifth year at school , ’ he recalls . |
| 18 | I worked at the Star Club and some other clubs in Hamburg . |
| 19 | I worked at the billeting office until the school reopened . |
| 20 | After I left the council , I worked for the council for ten years and then I stopped the council in nineteen forty six for I I telled you that afore have I . |
| 21 | and I worked for the council so he spoke to me one day and he said , Will you cut the roads with a tractor and a mower . |
| 22 | Then I worked for the BBC — my favourite charity , really . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ The things I 've seen in them vats when I worked for the brewery . ’ |
| 25 | During the war I worked for the women 's voluntary service and shortly afterwards I went abroad for a few years , returning in the late 1940s , divorced with three children . |
| 26 | ‘ To begin with , I worked for the family , pushing the churns round the streets on the milk-cart , but then I got too old for that , and I applied for work with the Dock workers Guild at Jubilee Wharf . ’ |
| 27 | I 'd told her I worked for the Post and she said she 'd already told Rain all about it . ’ |
| 28 | When I got a bit older I worked with the horses in the fields , particularly at haytiming . |
| 29 | I worked with the FBI , the US Secret Service , the thirty-one diplomatic groups and the individual protection teams . |
| 30 | ‘ I worked with the Sweepers . |