Example sentences of "[vb past] to work [prep] the [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They can be encouraged and guided to work on the Options activities alone , either for homework or purely to reinforce previous work . |
| 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 | The interrogators were quietly sacked and sent to work in the coal mines . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | You presumably had to work on the orchestra section by section . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Henry started his education at a boarding-school in Birkenhead but in the spring of 1887 the family moved to the Queen 's Park district of west London , where he continued his education at Beethoven Street School in Kilburn Lane until 1890 , when he left to work in the jewellery workshops of William Whiteley [ q.v. ] of Bayswater . |
| 11 | Staff at Cardiff-based Rimer-Alco volunteered to work over the bank holiday to prepare special oxygen machines to be flown out next week . |