Example sentences of "[adv] work [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 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 | She went on to work for the Friends ' Committee in France , Austria , Poland , and Greece . |
| 3 | Next month he travels to Nuremburg to do parish work before going on to work in the archives in the Papal capital . |
| 4 | Peter Morgan had no complaints , however , and went on to work in the hotels and restaurants of the Lyons empire . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | So the pupil needs merely to work within the constraints of the set pattern and is usually concerned , in terms of planning , with the content of the utterance , not with its form . |
| 9 | Soon she would get down to work on the garden ; it would be something to do at the weekends . |
| 10 | I started to fix the tongue and groove boarding , and with a few boards in place , felt confident enough to work on the roof . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been fortunate enough to work with the likes of Joe Mercer and Jack Charlton and I know my place in a football club . |
| 12 | Towards 2000 will see members of FYT Regional groups and committees meet together to work on the needs of marginalised young people in the last decade of this century . |
| 13 | The final point , on the purely technical side , is that accessories which offer automatic dialling of telephone numbers via a Hayes-compatible modem wo n't necessarily work in the UK . |
| 14 | we do n't all work on the clone do we ? |
| 15 | So remember — study to learn the subject ; do not merely work for the examination . |
| 16 | Ultimately , this state of affairs can only work to the advantage of our trainees , who will come out at the end of their programme with an eminently marketable collection of skills . |
| 17 | But Miss could only work for the doctors . |
| 18 | This will only work with the rig inclined back in the sailing position , otherwise it may be necessary to use one hand on the mast . |
| 19 | One hundred erm maybe it 'll only work with the times , generally on scientific ones , they do n't use the percent |
| 20 | But like everything else they 'll only work with the cooperations of of the of the er motoring public . |
| 21 | As the Welsh policy says , the internal market can only work on the basis of a high level of integration of technology . |
| 22 | If the weather was fine and we wanted to be out in the mountains , then we would only work in the evening . |
| 23 | But one senior RUC officer said : ‘ We can only work within the law . |
| 24 | During his first twenty years at Finsbury , Meldola published more than 250 papers and reports , and during his presidency of the Institute of Chemistry he did much work for the development of all aspects of its activities . |
| 25 | Not so at GWAD , the organisers , Sally B Supporters Club and the pilots , did much work behind the scenes to make sure the audience got a quality airshow . |
| 26 | Our own observations suggest that the team also entertained some notion of compensation or positive discrimination which necessarily worked against the interests of some schools . |
| 27 | At first , she only worked on the household duties , especially the cooking . |
| 28 | Bernie obviously worked on the idea and eventually came up with a much cheaper and more simple solution which would provide the investigator with a moving picture of the basic flight instruments during the period leading up to the crash . |
| 29 | Over many years we have together worked towards the day when all the people of South Africa are able to vote for a government of their choice and be in control of their own destiny . |
| 30 | A general war weariness , grievances over high taxation , and a deep fear amongst the Anglican majority of the population that the Church was now in greater danger from Protestant Nonconformists than it was from popery , all worked to the Tories ' advantage . |