Example sentences of "work [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You get a whole class of thirty-five people sat round absolutely mucking about , chucking books , ripping up books , everything like that , and the teacher stood out in front of the classroom writing a load of work down on the blackboard you ca n't really work . |
| 2 | I also have more than a thought for the people who do have homes but who are living in conditions of appalling squalor , for battered wives and abused children who stay at home because there 's nowhere safe for them to go , and for the husbands who choose to stay with their families in the north rather than abandon them for crazy periods of time because they could find work only in the south , And while we 're on the subject , I 'm sick and tired of listening to government and commerce saying it 's ‘ uneconomic ’ to locate businesses in the north of Britain when we 're currently importing billions of pounds ’ worth of consumer goods from the other side of the world . |
| 3 | Several series are accompanied by books which aim to help the individual work alone with the video materials , and one , Framework English is specifically described as a self-study course . |
| 4 | ‘ We do the hard work together during the week . |
| 5 | Dr Jerry Nims and Allen Lo started work together in the mid-1960s . |
| 6 | He let us muck around but we had to get the work in at the end of the week . ’ |
| 7 | For the next week or two there would be work enough for the rivermen , and they would shoulder their way into the dining rooms during the coming days for mugs of steaming tea and coffee , thick bacon sandwiches and thick slices of new bread liberally coated with dripping . |
| 8 | The constant flow of visitors to his annual exhibitions in Ambleside and Keswick must have been responsible for carrying his work all over the country . |
| 9 | As I learned more of missionary work all over the world , I began to realise that there had to be a tremendous effort to help undernourished people to grow their own food for themselves , a task which is still tragically unfinished , and will remain so until the nations of the world , rich and poor , combine together to sacrifice a meagre percentage of their gross national product , which experts calculate to be necessary to abolish hunger in a generation . |
| 10 | Prior to coming to Save The Children through the media , I was more aware of your work , the emergency work all over the world . |
| 11 | This work started originally in , in erm Nottingham University and in Aberdeen University and erm now we 're rather lucky in that I think we have erm one company , Oxford Instruments , that supply almost all the big magnets that are used in this work all over the world . |
| 12 | This was claimed to be the work not of the IRA proper , but of the Irish National Liberation Army , an offshoot of it . |
| 13 | Old Kewlany and his mate , as mystified as anyone , were set to work elsewhere for the time being . |
| 14 | Mostly they do administrative work inside the station , drive for the section inspector , or are seconded to administrative work elsewhere in the station . |
| 15 | Branson held her to contract for five more months , preventing her from working anywhere else , until he decided it was unreasonable to hold her any longer , and she was at last able to find work elsewhere in the record industry . |
| 16 | Although most biographers ( encouraged by Darwin 's own recollections ) have played down the Edinburgh episode , the most recent studies have noted that he developed an interest in invertebrate zoology here that was to form a mainstay of his scientific work through into the time of the Beagle voyage . |
| 17 | A further 8 per cent had received an acceptable job offer and would be commencing work shortly after the end of the course . |
| 18 | I meant to leave work early on the day of the meeting but , as so often happens , I could not get away until late so , instead of the planned leisurely drive , I was home with barely enough time to squeeze my wife into the car before arriving hot and bothered at the meeting . |
| 19 | It would seem highly unlikely , except at the times when falling piece rates forced them to , that domestic workers averaged such hours through the week , although they must have worked them on some days , if only to make up for slacker work early in the week . |
| 20 | for those who must start work early in the morning ( for example , bakers or farmers who have to deal with livestock ) , their life-style requires them to be active earlier . |
| 21 | And , I said , well we wo n't stay Gary cos co Tony 's got ta go to work early in the morning and er I wo n't drink and I 'll drive home . |
| 22 | Arrangements such as joint market research , and the joint execution of research work up to the stage of industrial application , were stated to be compatible with Article 85(1) , provided that participating companies did not restrict their freedom of action . |
| 23 | The paintings are virtually priceless , covering three centuries of Lombard devotional work up to the start of the Neo-Classical period , and the decorative work is exquisite . |
| 24 | Much of the office and administrative work both for the conference and for this report was carried out by Falls Community Council for which we are particularly grateful . |
| 25 | So far this chapter has been largely relevant to social work both within the community and in the residential area . |
| 26 | The practical course includes work both in the laboratory and in the field . |
| 27 | Laptop computers have been acquired for calculation work both in the office and in the field , and the output from our new electro-static colour plotter is impressive , providing many work opportunities as well as enhancing the presentation of our drawings . |
| 28 | He is presently covering rock concerts for Kendal council who are hosting an exhibition of his work later in the year . |
| 29 | He is presently covering rock concerts for Kendal council who are hosting an exhibition of his work later in the year . |
| 30 | The most rigorous efforts to spread the work evenly throughout the day will not meet with total success for there will always be some predictable peaks and troughs of activity . |