Example sentences of "working [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In their efforts to master Congress , presidents have normally given a high priority to working through their party 's legislative leaders , but it is clear that an amicable and productive relationship with such leaders was not established during the Nixon years . |
| 2 | The monastery of Santa de Nogueira was a peaceful place , and she was working through her life , straightening out the kinks in her psyche . |
| 3 | ‘ Did you get on to the contract cleaners ? ’ she asked Lucenzo , working through her check-list . |
| 4 | Play may also serve ‘ the individual child in working through his own problems or fulfilling his wishes at the fantasy level ’ ( ibid . |
| 5 | Starting on one side of the table and working through your army , roll a D6 for each unit . |
| 6 | If this sounds too outrageous then the art department of the local secondary school might take on the design and painting of a mural as a project for older pupils with children from the primary school working as their apprentices . |
| 7 | One of his assistants in this task was Christopher Saxton [ q.v. ] , who came from Dunningley near Dewsbury , and who was working as his servant in 1570 . |
| 8 | Eva had been working as his second for a number of years . |
| 9 | ‘ Toby had a small part in the film but he was also working as my stand-in . |
| 10 | Debating parliamentary reform in the Dail early in 1983 they were complaining of being " almost totally engaged in working for their constituents " , " whistling with exhaustion under the sheer burden of constituency work " . |
| 11 | ‘ So they 're a splinter group working for their own evil purposes rather than for the island 's status quo ? ’ |
| 12 | diplomats working for their release say they hope the pair will be out within days if not hours . |
| 13 | Our fundamental assumption must be that genes are ‘ selfish ’ entities , working for their own propagation in the gene pool of the species . |
| 14 | The more the standards are imposed by the teacher , the more the pupils are ‘ working for their teacher ’ , rather than for themselves . |
| 15 | Sunrise Radio bosses revealed that staff working for their new Leicester-based Midlands service have received chilling death threats in the middle of the night from a mystery caller . |
| 16 | " To prepare the Europeans for the idea of playing an increased role in working for their own defence , " he said , " I suggested to President Bush , and he agreed , that we propose to our allies to hold a NATO summit before the end of the year . " |
| 17 | He 's always been fond of animals and spent much of his life working for their welfare . |
| 18 | PRINCESS Diana came as close as she could to commenting on her marriage break-up yesterday when she made a public vow to continue working for her charities . |
| 19 | A year later , when she was working for her O-levels , she became pregnant . |
| 20 | CHRISTINE Elliott enjoyed every minute working for her Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award — and when she met the Duke at the presentation ceremony she told him so . |
| 21 | Alyssia opened her mouth to give him a piece of her mind at this further show of arrogance — in fact , to give him the sack , because his mere presence here implied that he was working for her father , and so , in an indirect manner , for herself — but he did n't allow her the chance . |
| 22 | Alice was supposed to help but she always woke up too late because she had been working for her exam ; Emmie had to shake her for nearly five minutes before she came up , moaning , out of a deep well of sleep . |
| 23 | She was inspired and strengthened by seeing herself not as a passive victim , or a cancer patient , but as an individual working for her own health and well-being . |
| 24 | Gwendolen Truda Brock ( Sister Truda C. R. ) who spent 1927–8 at Somerville as a research student from South Africa working for her Zoology D. Phil under Professor Goodrich has been made an Honorary Doctor of Laws of Rhodes University . |
| 25 | Eileen trained as a confectioner and once her family was grown up , started working for her brother , a baker . |
| 26 | We were greatly impressed by the high level of development expenditure in the area , its social infrastructure , and the quality of those working for its development . |
| 27 | CATALINA PBY-6A EC-FMC is still working for its living and is actively used as a fire-bomber . |
| 28 | The one move that is seen as a means of significantly improving the picture is another sharp improvement in efficiency — but that means still more job cuts , and word is that the company is considering seeking another 70,000 voluntary redundancies over the next four years , brining its workforce down to just 100,000 by 1997 , compared with 240,000 in 1991 ; finding more volunteers should not be too hard — its last offer was massively oversubscribed , but ironically , many of those that depart will end up working for its incoming competitors . |
| 29 | Tigg deserts him to start trading in fraud on his own account , and Slyme disappears from the story until he reappears as a police officer ( having taken to working for his living in the hope of shaming his rich uncle ) , to arrest Jonas Chuzzlewit for murder . |
| 30 | At the age of 12 , Kitto was taken on by his father to assist him in his trade , and it was shortly afterwards when he was working for his father slating a new roof that he lost his footing in the act of stepping off a ladder and fell thirty-five feet to the ground . |