Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] to work [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The working-class wives of early eighteenth-century London earned from charring , laundry , nursing , making and mending clothes , hawking , silk-winding and in the catering and victualling services : The great majority of women were unable to work in male trades and , since nearly three quarters of women wanted to or had to work for a living , they necessarily competed intensely for the work which was left , much of it of a casual nature and none of it organised by gilds and livery companies . |
| 2 | There are frequent occasions in a drama session when children are divided into groups and asked to work on a task . |
| 3 | Whistling to himself , Henry laid the table , while , in the corner of the kitchen , Maisie finished her last chocolate bar and got to work on a packet of crisps , a tube of Rollos , half a pound of jellybabies and a jumbo bar of Turkish delight . |
| 4 | So I joined the half-dozen speechless loners and got to work on the Sidecars . |
| 5 | When he married he rented a rambling red-brick Georgian house two miles away and bicycled to work at the forge most days . |
| 6 | However his teachers recognised his exceptional qualities and he was given junior teaching posts which enabled him to register at the University of Pennsylvania , where he obtained his Master 's degree and began to work towards a PhD , specialising in philosophy . |
| 7 | Eventually he shrugged , drew out his skeleton-key pouch and began to work on the lock . |
| 8 | They can be encouraged and guided to work on the Options activities alone , either for homework or purely to reinforce previous work . |
| 9 | Fr Butler was ordained in Ireland in June 1990 and sent to work as a curate in Consett as part of a two-year exchange scheme between the Dioceses of Ossory and Hewxham and Newcastle . |
| 10 | The interrogators were quietly sacked and sent to work in the coal mines . |
| 11 | Both started young and had to work through a range of personal problems and private defeats . |
| 12 | Spontaneity was given organised form on 11 October when antislavery delegates from Bath , Bristol , Exeter , Gloucester , Taunton , Devizes and Westbury met at Bath and resolved to work for the end of apprenticeship by August 1838 . |
| 13 | She was a qualified teacher , but chose to work as an accounting secretary with a firm of solicitors instead of in a class-room . |
| 14 | but continued to work within the Party until the end of November 1936 . |