Example sentences of "[vb past] work [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are frequent occasions in a drama session when children are divided into groups and asked to work on a task . |
| 2 | Whistling to himself , Henry laid the table , while , in the corner of the kitchen , Maisie finished her last chocolate bar and got to work on a packet of crisps , a tube of Rollos , half a pound of jellybabies and a jumbo bar of Turkish delight . |
| 3 | Both countries agreed to work towards a peace treaty to replace the 1953 armistice agreement [ for which see pp. 13077-79 ] . |
| 4 | The method was ethnographic and participatory and involved working with a software development team , and research programmers . |
| 5 | He did his preregistration year and a year of vocational training in general practice but then stopped working as a doctor until he opened an allergy clinic in 1982 . |
| 6 | This , with other and routine business , took him half a morning , during which Inspector Lane was out of the office on other business and the two young sergeants were in and out all the time ; they seemed to work as a unit . |
| 7 | I think at first it seemed to work at a disadvantage . |
| 8 | Instead I came to work as a layman at the diocesan office . ’ |
| 9 | Mr Hall hit the headlines in 1985 when he drove to work as a groundsman at Hummersknott School , Darlington , in a Silver Shadow putting the head teacher 's Escort to shame . |
| 10 | She flagged down dustman Barry Sutcliffe as he drove to work past a golf club near his home in Romiley , Stockport , Cheshire . |
| 11 | She 'd worked on a woman 's magazine . |
| 12 | Since school , which was n't long ago , he 'd worked as a butcher , ‘ squeezed a heart in a sink and got blood all over - sickened me ’ , and latterly as a — guess it — hairdresser . |
| 13 | She 'd worked as a prostitute long enough to know she 'd survive , but she did n't fancy six cocks one after the other without respite . |
| 14 | However his teachers recognised his exceptional qualities and he was given junior teaching posts which enabled him to register at the University of Pennsylvania , where he obtained his Master 's degree and began to work towards a PhD , specialising in philosophy . |
| 15 | At fourteen he began to work as a postman at 2d. a round , one round each morning . |
| 16 | He began working for a master 's degree , studying the language of medieval petitions in the Public Record Office . |
| 17 | Margaret began working as a Beamer in the Winding Department in January 1958 , a position she held for 26 years before becoming a clerkess responsible for recording production statistics . |
| 18 | Much difficulty could be avoided if the only candidates permitted to work for a PhD were those who were virtually certain to obtain it , but that is not a feasible option in the modern university . |
| 19 | The fourteen founders decided to work towards a text in collaboration with gallery owners and auctioneers and submit it to the French government , within the next few months if possible , in order for it to become law . |
| 20 | Dedicated to making the water a safe environment , he trains swimmers to pass the bronze medallion , the qualification needed to work in a swimming pool . |
| 21 | He loved working with a woman who understood clothes . |
| 22 | Her father had come from Lithuania and started working as a tailor 's presser , then he ran a clothes shop in the parlour of his house in Strangeways . |
| 23 | Wh when you started working as a lad , erm what did you have to do ? |
| 24 | I started working as a caddie in 1944 when I was about eight , and I earned a penny for every year . |
| 25 | And I used to get in when I was a young boy and see them when I started working on a farm I always to see them . |
| 26 | He started working on a market stall selling records in his home town of Nelson , Lancashire in 1961 and never looked back . |
| 27 | ‘ When I came back to England after my divorce I started working in a modelling agency . ’ |
| 28 | Fr Butler was ordained in Ireland in June 1990 and sent to work as a curate in Consett as part of a two-year exchange scheme between the Dioceses of Ossory and Hewxham and Newcastle . |
| 29 | On this occasion it meant working through a weekend developing special colours for a Royal carpet . |
| 30 | It preferred to work within a party which still had a certain amount of prestige . |