Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] to work [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well that 's what Breeze am keep telling me when I got to work in the morning it 's about the time of recession people should advertise more not less that maybe but the hard financial situation of the theatre finds itself in is to find that sort of money is very difficult at the moment . |
| 2 | McAllister , who had put the doll down , and was now fetching out her work basket to embroider pansies on some fine lawn dresses made for the bazaar by the aforesaid ladies , said , ‘ I did n't mean to become involved , you know , but Matey has been so kind to me — when not slave-driving me , you understand — that when she asked me to accompany her I had not the heart to refuse , and strangely , after I began to work for the bazaar , I found that it was most rewarding . ’ |
| 3 | I began to work on the dog with all I had . |
| 4 | I decided to work with the market women 's organization , ASUTRAMES , because my mother had a market stall and I would help her , and because the community had taught me how important it was to claim our rights . |
| 5 | I decided to work on the problem at home . |
| 6 | One reason I chose to work in the USA for 1994 was to watch England win the WC ; - ) |
| 7 | As the band 's agent in this case , I had to work with the record company to circumvent the rigid Radio I Top 40 format . |
| 8 | The next few gybes were the first I had ever done with speed all the way through the turn , in fact , it happened so quickly that I could n't change the rig fast enough — so then I had to work on the rig change . |
| 9 | Before they gave me a bike I had to earn it , I had to work in the garden . |
| 10 | I continued to work in the bank and give private lessons at weekends . |
| 11 | I continued to work in the bank and to give lessons , and did not venture far from the village on my bicycle except on the bank 's business . |
| 12 | Prunskiene , who had resigned as Prime Minister on Jan. 8 , 1991 [ see p. 37944 ] , consistently denied the accusations ( made in April — see p. 38880 ) , claiming that a document bearing her signature in which she agreed to work for the KGB was a forgery and that the trial was politically motivated . |
| 13 | Once back in her office , she tried to work on the promotion of Hindley Foster 's book , but found she was unable to concentrate . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | She is exactly the same age as Mrs Smith and came to Britain from Jamaica in 1957 as a 20-year old with her father ( a skilled motor mechanic who came to work on the London buses ) , her mother and her three brothers . |
| 16 | She gently rocked the chair to and fro as she started to work on the head of a unicorn in white embroidery cotton . |
| 17 | You started to work on the insides you know the got er th you varnished and sandpapered the insides of wardrobes , that 's where you started . |
| 18 | I personally felt a great affinity with the people of the highlands and islands , although I know this was not so with many of our officers who preferred to work in the south . |
| 19 | Yeah , folk here just never been out since New Year , then she had to work at the hospital Tuesday , well Bradley said if you do n't feel fit enough phone up and we 'll send a nurse to you I said you 're bloody mental , you ask for everything you get , I said instead of phoning the nurse in , ah but I think Alison told me they both need a good , good bloody feed they do |
| 20 | But there are Republicans in both the House and Senate who wanted to work with the president towards deficit reduction . |
| 21 | One had to work on the opposition 's weaknesses . |
| 22 | Evening courses were arranged on all sorts of subjects , which we as shift workers were unfortunately not able to take advantage of fully , as we had to work during the evenings . |
| 23 | We had to work with the gallery festooned in paper . ’ |
| 24 | Before they started to work with the video all the teachers were shown the contract which was drawn up by Kate Kennett . |
| 25 | Peasants were enticed away from subsistence agriculture because of the potential profits and , in order to buy the necessary equipment and fertilisers and to sell the final produce , they had to work through the market . |
| 26 | The initial decision at congress to enter the formal political arena was taken to defend the trading interests of cooperation against incursions by the state , and when sponsored candidates were elected to parliament they tended to work within the brief by monitoring legislation . |
| 27 | like most of the the child care was done by the girls , but there was actually a few of the boys that decided they wanted to work in the nurseries and o eh the five that done , there 's actually two that we know of a are actually doing child care as a career . |
| 28 | There is now a wide variety of special hardware and software for handicapped people , much of it designed to work with the BBC , Archimedes and IBM PC-compatible computers commonly used in schools , though it is equally applicable to adults . |
| 29 | Soon after the Second World War , in which he worked with ENSA ( or ‘ Every-Night-Something-Awful ’ , as he called it ) , he came to work for the music publishing firm of R. Smith and Co Ltd and served as editor of British Bandsman ( the brass band world 's leading newspaper since 1887 ) for 15 years . |
| 30 | Grandfather James Hauxwell met Grandmother Elizabeth , who was a Bayles , when he came to work on the building of the reservoir , just below Low Birk Hatt . |