Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] work on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scotland will hold a public practice at Murrayfield today , though part of it will likely be in camera — when the forwards head indoors to work on the hydraulic scrummaging machine . |
| 2 | When Jos moved round to work on the other side of the gate , he handed Mungo a sheet of sandpaper , telling him to use plenty of ‘ elbow grease ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The heiress travels to Florida for some yachting but her sloop is run down and sunk by one of her own commercial schooners ; she is saved but she has lost her memory ; she ends up working on the cutting-tables in her own factory and falls in love with a manager whose previous requests for better conditions she had been happy to ignore . |
| 5 | At a time still to be determined we shall also need to do further work on the museum . |
| 6 | French masons were brought in to work on the glorified hunting lodge of Falkland in Fife until it came to resemble a French Renaissance palace in miniature , with the courtyard 's south range richly decorated with Scots thistles , French fleurs-de-lis and pictorial medallions . |
| 7 | Despite the skilled electronic engineers and software writers at Rugby , GEC has sub-contracted further work on the Hall robot 's control system to an ex-Hall Automation employee now working on his own . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Oliphant , who was also knighted , went on to work on the atomic bomb , and subsequently returned to his native South Australia , where he became Governor . |
| 10 | In addition to these developments , SCOTVEC will shortly be undertaking further work on the design of core skills . |
| 11 | He went straight to work on the swollen sheep , and managed to save almost all of them . |
| 12 | The breakthrough in this version is that you can combine a live chart within a spreadsheet display and carry on working on the spreadsheet without having to switch modes . |
| 13 | Soon she would get down to work on the garden ; it would be something to do at the weekends . |
| 14 | They read Drude 's plant geography and decided to do a similar study , but soon found that the European techniques did not work on the almost featureless prairie . |
| 15 | When a crime is reported to the police they do not work on the assumption that anyone could have done it . |
| 16 | There are no objections raised provided the necessary conditons are imposed to ensure that the caravan is removed once work on the barn is complete . |
| 17 | did n't work on the machinery so much . |
| 18 | if we do n't work on the strategy that I 've been suggesting |
| 19 | Women do n't work on the land in this country . |
| 20 | Well no I do n't work on the nights anyway , you know we 're full time so full time just do n't work nights |
| 21 | And er I 've been there all my life and that 's and that 'll be eighty seven years old come May and er I 've just worked on the farm all my days and er then of course when my people died I just er stayed myself , and then lived with other people here and there , just to help them . |
| 22 | If you 've always worked on the account of companies that deal in furniture , say , you could just as easily do the same job for a company dealing in computers . |
| 23 | He said that Sabine Jourdain had always worked on the paintings with her maître and that over the years the amount she did varied . |
| 24 | be required to undertake further work on the project and be referred to his project tutor or mentor for counselling |
| 25 | This was a pity , since Hitchcock had the assistance of no less than Hein Heckroth as production designer and fellow-cockney expatriate Albert Whitlock ( who had also worked on The Birds and Marnie ) to do the matte paintings — he created most of the art gallery that figures in one sequence as a meeting place . |
| 26 | However , in the absence of much evidence for the quality of tessellation at Withington ( some fragments of mosaic D are preserved in the British Museum ) , significant stylistic affinities still indicate that one or two craftsmen working here had also worked on the Barton Farm and Woodchester mosaics , i.e. suggesting an integral relationship . |
| 27 | After five sentences , stop and pause , take a deep breath , look out of the window , then come back to work on the next five sentences . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Well , flight had n't worked on the other two occasions , but , for the sake of her own sanity , this had to be third time lucky . |
| 30 | The central locking does n't work on the boot ; it remained unlocked for two months before Darren realised . |