Example sentences of "[adv prt] 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 Soon she would get down to work on the garden ; it would be something to do at the weekends .
7 Many had started off working in the field as social workers , teachers , architects , planners or just plain clerks .
8 The artist accuses Mr Debbasch , who is also Rector of the University of Aix-Marseille III , of selling off works from the Fondation Vasarely , created in 1976 , without the permission of either himself or his family .
9 Users have to ensure that the software works for them and they do not end up working for the software .
10 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 .
11 Her name was Doris and I settled down and ended up working in the kitchen which I enjoyed .
12 I got fed up working in the library on fine autumn days and went cross-country running .
13 Most of our lodgers go out to work during the day , but Miss Hoffmann is not in good health .
14 Joanne , however , goes out to work during the day and is out nearly every night , while her mother looks after her eight-month-old daughter , so they spend little time together .
15 It seemed an ordinary enough night when Anne Simonsen set out to work at the Marina Hotel in Copenhagen where she had a job as part-time barmaid .
16 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 .
17 I had become more and more interested in the business world , going back to work at the bank in Newcastle during my vacations , so I was looking for a general business career . ’
18 In fact , liberal or not , she has come back to work for the ANC , though her exact capacity is not made clear .
19 So it will be back to work on the Algarve this week when Payne bids to win the Portuguese Open , a tournament that provided Montgomerie with his first success in 1989 .
20 Having eaten her lunch quickly , Tess went back to work with the harvesters in the cornfield until it was dark .
21 Then , there was nothing else to be done except get back to work in the cutting room at Paramount where he was working around the clock on The Two Jakes , for which the world of movie entertainment was waiting with bated breath ; because even though all of the above makes fascinating reading for everyone intrigued by Hollywood 's pop royalty , especially one so colourful and mercurial as Nicholson , it is the mere trivia , the overcoat of gloss and glitz , that hides the real Jack Nicholson …
22 News of the transfer produced a steady drift back to work in the Kuzbass and Vorkuta coalfields in the first days of May , at the same time as the strike in the Ukraine 's Donbass coalfield began to crumble .
23 ‘ People are coming back to work in the office downstairs from Monday , you know .
24 And really it was no joking matter : across the bridge John Chapman , nephew to a Market Place shoemaker , went back to work in the shop too soon after the flood , caught a chill in the process , and died in the April , aged just twenty-one .
25 One woman described how she had gone back to work after the death of her husband , determined to be brave .
26 ‘ Robert did n't say I must go back to work after the baby ’ , Lucy told me , ‘ but he began to be reluctant about switching on electric fires and looking disapproving if I did ’ .
27 If you go back to work before the end of 28 weeks and are then absent again , Statutory Sick Pay will be payable for each period of absence until your 28 weeks ' entitlement has been exhausted , provided you have not been back at work for more than 8 weeks .
28 And he 's always out working on the range and the practice green .
29 They do n't have the special skills and training that you need to carry out working within the railway environment .
30 When the men were out working in the field , I was left in the yard erm I helped with feeding the milking the cows , feeding the calves and the pigs .
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