Example sentences of "[be] work [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Great changes had been wrought by the eruption . |
| 3 | We 're working for the King himself , and he wants to see all the plays . ’ |
| 4 | The manufacturers have been alerted and they 're working on the problem . ’ |
| 5 | Always a big help when you 're working on the Continent . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | So we 're working on the buttery and pantry , particularly the buttery . |
| 9 | Now all they have time to do when they 're working on the site is to put them in the trays and wash them . |
| 10 | A Liverpool City Council spokeswoman said : ‘ We 're working with the school to help their particular needs and improve security around the site . ’ |
| 11 | When you 're working in the shop er and you 're helping perhaps with the slaughtering and things like that |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Things get harder the further you reach , and as you 're working against the clock there 's no sitting and thinking for too long . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | These double cables not only form an attractive central pattern on a plain sweater , but on a ‘ V ’ neck sweater the pattern can be divided and each section of 6 stitch cable may be worked up the side of the ‘ V ’ neck shaping . |
| 18 | On the previous page are five of their most popular shapes , all of which can be worked onto the face or brushed back as an alternative . |
| 19 | On another occasion she demonstrated how the clay should be worked on the armature : now then , stick it right up , ram it , ram it , ram it and work away , either from the back or front , whichever comes easiest ! |
| 20 | The horse can be worked on the lunge with the same principles in mind i.e. rhythm and balance . |
| 21 | He proposes that the coal seams should be worked in the advance . |
| 22 | Heavy weaving will easily take bought fancy fastenings and then , neat machine knitted button and buttonhole bands can always be worked in the background yarn . |
| 23 | Well then let's fill in April , then I think we should actually make sure that we 're comfortable that is essential and th that there is overtime being worked there that could n't have be worked in the week . |
| 24 | Rob should be working across the school . |
| 25 | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern would be working for The Mob these days . |
| 26 | They often claim to be working for the council and sometimes have ‘ road maintenance ’ painted on the side of their lorries . |
| 27 | I 'll be working to the middle now . |
| 28 | And in the middle of June the bridge office will be going through the same exercise and June the nineteenth , I think , it 's the Monday everyone within the group will be working to the group 's quality systems . |
| 29 | Mr Wilkins will be working at the library during the next year . |
| 30 | The National Rivers Authority warned mariners on Monday that engineers and builders would be working on the river from mid-February until June 1993 . |