Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] to work [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gradually other women finished the insides of their houses and came outside to work in the sunlight . |
| 2 | She went on to work for the Friends ' Committee in France , Austria , Poland , and Greece . |
| 3 | McIlvanney went on to work on the Scotsman as a news reporter and feature writer , though with his passion for football and boxing , the attraction towards sports was inevitable . |
| 4 | Peter Morgan had no complaints , however , and went on to work in the hotels and restaurants of the Lyons empire . |
| 5 | Henry Smith did not , however , follow this new British school , but chose rather to work in the theory of numbers and elliptic functions , in which the Germans were pre-eminent . |
| 6 | Having eaten her lunch quickly , Tess went back to work with the harvesters in the cornfield until it was dark . |
| 7 | And really it was no joking matter : across the bridge John Chapman , nephew to a Market Place shoemaker , went back to work in the shop too soon after the flood , caught a chill in the process , and died in the April , aged just twenty-one . |
| 8 | It seemed an ordinary enough night when Anne Simonsen set out to work at the Marina Hotel in Copenhagen where she had a job as part-time barmaid . |