Example sentences of "to work [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both sides appeared keen to work for some kind of reconciliation , although how much of their willingness to co-operate was purely political was never made clear . |
| 2 | Conditions of work were not pleasant ; landowners tried to get their estates cultivated by indentured labourers who had come out under a contract to work for some years for the man who paid for the journey or anyone to whom he sold the right to command their services . |
| 3 | Soon it became clear that Sarah was seriously ill with rheumatic fever and would not be able to work for some time , and another girl , Hetty , was engaged temporarily . |
| 4 | Phone call from our School Nurse to let us know that the School Doctor , who had to cancel medicals because of illness , is out of hospital but will not be back to work for some time . |
| 5 | The matter may be looked at retrospectively ( ie where the partner has been unable to work for some defined period or periods ) or prospectively ( where it has become apparent that the partner 's health has failed and will not improve ) . |
| 6 | Here , staff appreciate that both fear and grief in the patient and his relatives can be reduced through anticipating the fact that they do not have much longer together and that this time can be used constructively to work through some of their anxieties and other distressing emotions . |
| 7 | According to a Pakistani commentary , Shahi appeared to be suggesting that once the neutrality of the area was ensured by the regional states pursuing a policy of strict non-alignment , the superpowers could perhaps be persuaded to work towards some sort of mutual accommodation . |
| 8 | Then I got to work with some hard green soap I 'd found beside the sink , washed my make-up off as best I could , examined my face by the light of the torch in the little mirror hanging there , then tucked myself in . |
| 9 | If you are new to making pressed flower pictures it could be easier to work with some pastels and then experiment with brighter colours once you feel more confident about your design skills . |
| 10 | At the same time Althusser argued that Sartre had not isolated the central problems of orthodox Marxist theory , and as a result continued to work with some of its more questionable preconceptions . |
| 11 | I 'd rather work in a place like that , where we can face problems and move them on and develop things carefully , than to work in some places in the country where things are so far off agenda , as it were , as to be impossible . |
| 12 | It 's great to work alongside some really experienced footballers like Frank Gray and Tony McAndrew , ’ said Nigel . |
| 13 | With the restoration of Hampton Court Palace nearing completion , Trevor Barnes meets an American who has been asked to work on some of the most important recreations of Grinling Gibbons ' original carvings |
| 14 | I wished to work on some panels too wide to be held in my Workmate , which has a maximum opening of about 10½in . |
| 15 | I rather wish he had gone to work on some of the astonishing things Escoffier and his contemporaries did to fruit . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've got to work on some stuff for an article , ’ she said . |
| 17 | He cut into her thoughts with a question about the ball and she repeated her earlier assurance that she 'd had a successful evening , adding that in all conscience she ought to have been driving back to London to work on some of the stories . |
| 18 | ‘ She 's only been here a couple of times , when I needed to work on some papers very urgently . ’ |
| 19 | Tonight , for example , after Emily was in bed , she 'd get down to work on some of her designs for accessories . |
| 20 | Now , if we can work together on solving this one , we 'll find it much easier to work on some of the others . |
| 21 | When you join the Royal Air Force you expect to work on some of the world 's deadliest aircraft , Jaguar Fighters , and harriers , but there 's another side to aviation . |
| 22 | It is true that extensive reviews of research in the United States ( Lipton et al. , 1975 ) and in Britain ( Brody , 1976 ) found it to be generally the case that different penal measures had similarly unimpressive outcomes in terms of re-offending , but they also found examples of reformative programmes which seemed to work to some extent with certain groups of offenders ( see Palmer , 1975 ) . |
| 23 | At recent rates about 80 per cent of married women can expect to work at some time in their married lifetime ( Martin and Roberts 1984 ) . |
| 24 | No matter where you finally wind up in the advertising business , you will want to work at some stage in an agency to gain real insight into advertising and acquire first-rate skills ( and , hopefully , reputation ) that puts wheels under your career . |