Example sentences of "try to work [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs T also tried to work with her , but found her very vague . |
| 2 | Rekhi says that Novell tried to work with Santa Cruz Operation on Unix back in 1990 , and later approached Sun Microsystems Inc to help with its Intel-Unix effort , but both efforts came to nothing . |
| 3 | The school found some support for their interpretation of Mrs Peel 's behaviour from a community nurse who tried to work with the family : ‘ She thinks there 's evidence of sexual abuse ; soiling , language and sexually overt behaviour . ’ |
| 4 | Rekhi says Novell tried to work with SCO on Unix back in 1990 , and later approached Sun to help with its Intel-Unix effort , but both efforts came to nothing . |
| 5 | We also tried to work with housewives , usually the wives of trade unionists . |
| 6 | Once back in her office , she tried to work on the promotion of Hindley Foster 's book , but found she was unable to concentrate . |
| 7 | We need always therefore to try to work with the grain of the markets to achieve the required effects . |
| 8 | The Tudeh Party appears initially to have decided to try to work within the new system , but was later subjected to pressure , especially in 1984 . |
| 9 | Hilton stresses that a quickened sense of the inner meaning of the Incarnation can not be forced ; it is essentially experienced as a gift and those eager to know God should always try to work with the grain of their own particular natures rather than force any prescribed activity : " take esili wolen come " ( 53.637 ) . |
| 10 | We 'll try to work on something ! |
| 11 | Initially , when they try to work as a team , the results are worse than the individuals produce on their own , and the best solutions do n't get brought out . |
| 12 | We 've been telling our chief executives that even though you ca n't get the sales then at least try to work on your working capital , try and get your working capital er , ratio down . |
| 13 | Nowadays all good authorities listen to residents and tenants and try to work in partnership with them |
| 14 | There is also a level-of-analysis problem for theories which try to work from the inside . |
| 15 | I TRY TO WORK AGAINST THE WAY I WAS TAUGHT , WHICH WAS TO WORK ON THE PAINTING AS A WHOLE AND BRING THINGS UP TO A CERTAIN DEGREE OF FINISH |
| 16 | I try to work against the way I was taught , which was to work on the paintings as a whole and bring things up to a certain degree of finish . |
| 17 | In the light of the foregoing , psychiatry itself is increasingly being forced to admit that the firm categories of psychosis with which it has tried to work for many years are of limited value . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'd always wanted to work with Mutt Lange ; I 've actually tried to work with Mutt since 1984 , but he was always busy on a project , but he wanted to do it and it was the right time for both of us . |
| 19 | It 's also given us the new agreement on working time which our own government have tried to work against consistently for the last two years , they now say they 'll challenge it in Europe 's Court of Justice , well what they seem to forget is it 's got ta come back to Parliament for a second reading yet and they 've created such ill feeling in the Parliament and among the Commission , that it 's likely to be strengthened , we 're gon na end up with a strengthened agreement on working time by the autumn of this year . |
| 20 | Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person . |
| 21 | We are at the stage of trying to work with a broad brush without much understanding of the problems of detail . |
| 22 | It illustrates the fundamental dichotomy of a headstrong band trying to work with a major label . |
| 23 | And , just as it is unnatural to spend all one 's time hopping on one leg , going about with one eye permanently closed or trying to work with one hand tied behind the back , it is unnatural to be so unbalanced . |
| 24 | I can not urge you strongly enough to resist the temptation of trying to work with such tapes . |
| 25 | We as a as a policy unit get involved in that kind of work as well , so working with departments , looking at new initiative 's and trying to work with them . |
| 26 | If you 'd been working with this angle instead , we did n't know that and we 're trying to work with this one or we say we 're interested in this angle so that will be the opposite and this would be the adjacent . |
| 27 | It 's very impressive — you can even load the server software in a Desqview or Windows window and multi-task the whole thing , if you fancy trying to work with two machines at once . |
| 28 | Now I 'm , I am trying to work through it methodically actually . |
| 29 | After a period of time you 'll feel that things have improved a bit in that area ( we hope ! ) , so flick through the book again and start trying to work at another area . |
| 30 | The more moderate group of radicals continued the traditions of the New Left by trying to work within the professions to improve society . |