Example sentences of "[pron] work on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It should be clear to anybody that the basic idea behind the prison system is corrupt and unjust , but the more I worked on the film , the more I understood how extreme the injustice was . |
| 3 | I worked on the course green-keeping in the winter at Birkdale , and spent all summer caddying . |
| 4 | You see , usually I worked on the accounts and managed the estate . |
| 5 | Later on I worked on the twilight shift in a components factory and as our kids grew up people moved out and others moved in . |
| 6 | Denis and I worked on the show each morning and on our final evening we performed it in ninety degree heat for a deeply moved and even more deeply biased audience of mutual families . |
| 7 | Would n't leave me all through the following night as I worked on the glass . |
| 8 | I used sign language , and I worked on the assumption that all deaf people can lipread . |
| 9 | I worked on the tension suggested and under considerable tension on my part . |
| 10 | When I tired of writing press releases on new lube concepts I left Wartberg 's valve business to go to the Angstrom Corporation , where I worked on the launch of a new biscuit , the Pink Finger . |
| 11 | So I worked on the farm with Mr and Mrs Parks . |
| 12 | ‘ I work on the principle that if it 's growing and looking healthy , pull it out . |
| 13 | I work on the face now , and there are always dodgy situations when a lump of rock falls and just misses you . |
| 14 | One or two of them might be related to me , but I work on the assumption that my children will have access to most things and personal experience of some . |
| 15 | If I work on the game , I can get £150 in one night . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I work on the farm sometimes . |
| 17 | I working on the training timber directly for horses , and then talk about cereal |
| 18 | The second element was that I had just started working at the London School of Economics in October 1970 , which was exactly the same time as GLF started meeting there and LSE was in one of its periods of turmoil which involved me as someone working on the staff and excited me politically . |
| 19 | Under one company scheme — which works on the basis that the employee moves into an area of higher cost housing but into a similar property — the company pays half the additional mortgage cost for the first two years from the date of the move . |
| 20 | And if your skin is at all fair or sensitive , you should n't start off with anything less than an SPF 15 suncream. remember there are two kinds of rays from the sun — UVB rays which work on the skin surface and can burn , and UVA , the deeply penetrating rays which damage and age the skin . |
| 21 | Edmonds , the exclusive Knightsbridge hair salon , offer head and scalp massage with essential oils which work on the pressure points used in shiatsu and acupuncture , to relieve stress and tension . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | And one day Uncle Edouard said he might let me work on the Aston Martin . |
| 24 | Or , if you insist on hanging around the office , they will set you to work on the accounts of charities . |
| 25 | I expect you to work on the assignments you owe me at home ! |
| 26 | Oh yes oh well just ordinary country country days , just you worked on the farm . |
| 27 | However , the superintendents and foremen who worked on the factory floor , many having themselves been skilled machinists , sided with the operators and consequently nothing happened to change the balance of power . |
| 28 | The family of a murder victim have accepted a donation to a trust fund in their son 's name from detectives who worked on the case . |
| 29 | He may have been the ‘ Maister Vartu ’ who worked on the church of St Mary-at-Hill in London in 1502 , and the ‘ Vertu the mason ’ paid for a new window at St Anthony 's Hospital , Threadneedle Street , London . |
| 30 | 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 . |