Example sentences of "[be] work [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Miss Goody Two Shoes has n't been to work for a week apparently .
2 I 've been to work in a bicycle shop . ’
3 That is a sharp decline from the 73.5p at which they were suspended and reflects the financial havoc which has been wrought on the company 's accounts as a consequence of the problems at its ISC Technologies subsidiary .
4 Great changes had been wrought by the eruption .
5 Now at the Leys community they 're working towards a drug free future .
6 Right , now if you do n't interact right you 're not gon na get a result and if the customer does not interact with you , then you 're not gon na get a result , right , now if you assume that as you 're working your way through that appointment that your enthusiasm is passing across to the customer or anybody else who is in the room , right , right , but through that interaction right you 're working towards a result , now if you go and come out of that office , about his , with a result , you 'll know you 'll know what you 're getting next week or next month you got ta I mean the customer 's got ta be at the
7 agencies have been inundated with job hunting dealers who often confide : " We 're earning thirty or forty thousand a year , but we 're working for a bucket shop .
8 I mean when you 're working for a week at a time with the same blokes week in week out I mean you get to know them really well .
9 and in this case , as we we 're working for a group of tenants , we can ask for an extension on one form to cover so
10 We 're working for the King himself , and he wants to see all the plays . ’
11 And if you 're working on a spreadsheet , you may be working on a spreadsheet during the day , start in the morning , you 're working several hours , you may find yourself running low of memory , then the memory light comes on or you get a memory full up message at some stage , and you think oh that 's not fair , because I have n't made the spreadsheet any bigger .
12 If you find yourself running out of memory , and you 're working on a spreadsheet for a while , what should you do ?
13 The manufacturers have been alerted and they 're working on the problem . ’
14 Always a big help when you 're working on the Continent . ’
15 So we 're working on the principal that even if the person does wake up in the operation they 're s not going to sue you cos they ca n't feel anything in the area you 're operating in .
16 ‘ We ca n't fix a definite time of death until after the post mortem , but we 're working on the assumption that it was shortly after the time agreed for the rendezvous — midnight .
17 So we 're working on the buttery and pantry , particularly the buttery .
18 Now all they have time to do when they 're working on the site is to put them in the trays and wash them .
19 A Liverpool City Council spokeswoman said : ‘ We 're working with the school to help their particular needs and improve security around the site . ’
20 Er and er quite clearly is er Leeds migrants in migrants were were attracted er to somewhere in in in the south er there would be less main migrants since we 're working to a ceiling , er would be attracted elsewhere .
21 The person who is out in the front teaching the class , or directing the piece of work they 're doing , they do , and everybody in it does … the kind of work we do is to do with a group of people … getting into a drama studio , and you know the set-up here ; there 's no uniform , there 's no ‘ Sir ’ or ‘ Miss ’ , it 's all Christian names , and that means that the holds are broken down a lot , so what is done in the end is to produce work which we hope makes statements which come from the pre-occupations , the beliefs , the honestly held beliefs of the people involved , whether they 're working from a text , an interpretation of a text , or whether they 're working from improvisation , doing their own work … so they get constant assessment from that .
22 In other words if you , you 've been a teacher and you 're working in a school , you tend to talk about the things about your school that different from other schools , not about the things about your school that are the same , and that go on in all the other schools as well .
23 And I have a responsibility to the Committee , you know , and they have to the Regional Board , even though you 're working in a section of the hospital that 's outside the NHS establishment , and not using Ministry money .
24 When you 're working in the shop er and you 're helping perhaps with the slaughtering and things like that
25 We have the Association for the Disabled for the blind , we have Age Concern but there is n't a for the mentally or for mental health or for whatever it might be called , and these groups are very useful in providing a focal point for liaison between statutory organizations , including the health service , and the users and carers , and providing points of lobbying concern , points on which we can comment and that that increasingly is the way we 're working in the community care consultation process .
26 Things get harder the further you reach , and as you 're working against the clock there 's no sitting and thinking for too long .
27 A primary role of the party in the new disposition , he said , would be to work against the threat of social polarization inherent in restructuring and the move towards a market economy .
28 Wealth flowed from these colonies : gold to gild the city spires , silver to be wrought into the bodywork of their chariots , furs for winter wear and medicinal herbs to cure the sick .
29 Among its chief attributes are its pleasingly creamy colour , its smoothness and coolness to the touch , its fine grain and the comparative ease with which it can be wrought to a variety of precise shapes using such elementary techniques as sawing , rubbing , polishing and perforating .
30 We want you to see for yourself the subtlety and awareness that can be wrought from the earth , to give style and grace to your everyday living .
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