Example sentences of "[pron] work [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're asking me to work round the police department here . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When I got a bit older I worked with the horses in the fields , particularly at haytiming . |
| 5 | ‘ I worked with the Sweepers . |
| 6 | You see , usually I worked on the accounts and managed the estate . |
| 7 | I worked in the communities that experienced the most painful impact of the first of the Government 's recessions in the 1980s . |
| 8 | Most of the time I worked in the bunkers , trying to keep the stoker supplied with enough coal to fire the furnaces ; he would rattle his shovel in the hatch if I fell behind . |
| 9 | ‘ As I work with the prints all day I would get so bored if I wore them as well , ’ she once told an American interviewer , who expressed surprise to find her in such plain clothes . |
| 10 | I do n't give a monkey 's shit , I work for the cops . |
| 11 | If I work through the holidays as well as the terms , and get another mortgage , perhaps I can manage those fees . |
| 12 | I work in the forces ’ canteen . |
| 13 | Alternatively , there would be great benefit in choosing someone working in the pupils ' locality e.g. a youth worker , a nurse , a pupil involved in the provision of a soup kitchen or the organisation of a pro-life cell . |
| 14 | Survival International , which works for the rights of threatened tribal peoples , doubled its membership between the end of 1989 and the middle of 1990 . |
| 15 | ‘ My ole man got upset an' 'e told me ter get rid o' the bloody fing before 'e got 'ome from work ternight. 'E works on the trams , yer see , ’ the woman explained . |
| 16 | So much greenhouse equipment is electric and a light will allow you to work with the plants at any time of the day . |
| 17 | Or , if you insist on hanging around the office , they will set you to work on the accounts of charities . |
| 18 | I expect you to work on the assignments you owe me at home ! |
| 19 | Did you work in the pits for a long time ? |
| 20 | ‘ If you worked for the Times you 'd have known John . |
| 21 | If you worked in movies in America you worked in the studios and you were their property . |
| 22 | Had he pressed on he might none the less have taken Newcastle , which contained many Jacobite sympathisers , but while he dallied , turning aside to Hexham , 15 miles [ 24 km ] west of the city , the Newcastle magistrates called out the militia and trained bands , mobilised a force of 700 tough keelmen , who worked on the lighters in the harbour , patched up the ancient city wall , though they lacked cannon to defend it , and bricked up the gates . |
| 23 | In theory , those who worked on the farms were capable of supporting themselves . |
| 24 | Both end walls have paintings of 1710 by the Jesuit , Tausch , a copyist who worked on the cartoons of the Italian fresco painter , Andrea del Pozzo . |
| 25 | He could tell she was upset by the words she used : bad words he had often heard from the men who worked with the pigs or came to the house to drink with Buddie in the music-room . |
| 26 | The Kurds who worked for the Turks killed her husband and children . |
| 27 | The evil paedophile , who worked for the prisons charity NIACRO , preyed on youngsters using his position of trust with the St. Lazarus ' ambulance corps . |
| 28 | Levi was a tax-collector who worked for the Romans . |
| 29 | Just as men 's muscularity was and is celebrated in the histories , so was another man fascinated by the muscularity of women who worked at the pitheads . |
| 30 | The ones who knew , the men of his own class , the men who worked in the mills with him , they were unconvinced … |