Example sentences of "[vb past] to work [prep] the [noun] [noun pl] " 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 | They can be encouraged and guided to work on the Options activities alone , either for homework or purely to reinforce previous work . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The interrogators were quietly sacked and sent to work in the coal mines . |
| 5 | 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 . |