Example sentences of "work [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A woman who has recovered from a stroke or head injury may decide she would like to work for the first time , as part of the challenge of overcoming her illness . |
| 2 | If he was the sole breadwinner , you may have to go out to work for the first time . |
| 3 | Phillipson has pointed to more direct state management of retirement , in order to regulate the size of the labour force , yet the well-known attempts by the government to induce retirees back to work after the Second World War were notable for their lack of success ; the reserve army of elderly labour was highly resistant to re-enlistment . |
| 4 | Because Miguel , in the same incident , has been bitten but not seriously injured , Sarah tries to save him by cutting off his infected arm with a machete — an effect that failed to work with the first model , until an assistant of Savini 's used a spare rubber arm with the cut prefilled with wax . |
| 5 | The Portadown player had to work in the first couple of frames but after that he stepped up a gear and dismissed the English player almost scornfully . |
| 6 | The possibility of a long poem clearly inspired him and , almost as soon as he had settled himself with the Mirrlees , he began to work upon the next poem in the sequence . |
| 7 | Thus , for example , the student with difficulty revising , having drawn up his plan of action , agreed to work on the first item on his list and not to be side-tracked into attempting other items at the same time . |
| 8 | Because of the political changes wrought in the nineteenth century , they are by convention responsible now also to Parliament . |
| 9 | In need of a cheap , large labour force after the economic and social havoc wrought by the Second World War , migration from the Caribbean and other ‘ New Commonwealth , countries was encouraged by both commercial and public sector British employers . |
| 10 | Professor Miller proceeded to the changes in psychology wrought by the Second World War , which was interesting . |
| 11 | Likewise , there is no single aspect of English Nonconformist life where the changes wrought by the nineteenth century are more obvious than in the position of ministers . |
| 12 | He then worked as the third man on the management side at Middlesbrough , under Bruce Rioch and Colin Todd before joining Darlington , as they were heading for the GM Vauxhall Conference , three years ago . |
| 13 | It worked for the last World Cup , when the FA paid a £30,000-a-man bonus for reaching the semi-finals . |
| 14 | Chaucer worked in the first Customs House , and Pepys saw the building of the first wet dock at Blackwall . |
| 15 | But he was tt er a twist hand in the hosiery trade , making socks , and he worked in the last mobile , not mobile , er mechanical stocking manufacturers , owned by my uncle , Mr Frank , in Street and th what we used to called Street . |
| 16 | Throughout January he worked upon the third act of the play and . |
| 17 | It worked until the 64th minute , when Saunders at last found some space to cross for Atkinson to head home at the far post . |
| 18 | It worked on the first day of application . |
| 19 | Coopers & Lybrand worked on the first study in conjunction with Samuel Montagu , the merchant bank which is handling the sale on behalf of the Government . |
| 20 | His account of how government worked in the ninth century is plausible , not least because it squares with what we can infer from Dhuoda and Nithard , despite the differences in their aims and standpoints . |
| 21 | As part of our continuing review of quality systems , we are completing an evaluation of the way the new system has worked in the first year . |
| 22 | The scribes he studies worked in the 14th century — 800 years after Dr Marchand 's Goths had relinquished Italy . |
| 23 | However , lapis from the region of Lake Baikal in Siberia does contain wollastonite , although this source was not worked until the nineteenth century . |
| 24 | Observers from Russia , Portugal ( Angola 's former colonial master ) and America , who had spent much of the six weeks drafting and redrafting endless versions of the ‘ Abidjan protocol ’ — the peace agreement that never was — worked until the last minute trying to reformulate this point to make it acceptable to both sides . |
| 25 | He was also a prime mover in the bid to get better pay for West Indian cricketers , putting in much work as the first secretary of the West Indian Players ' Association . |
| 26 | This publication , and the Directory of Mines and Quarries , on which work for the next edition continued , provide prime sources of basic data for the United Kingdom minerals industry . |
| 27 | BELOW : Iron Mill stood immediately below Longfords , and was an iron works during the 17th century . |
| 28 | B&P human resources director David Ramsay said the firm was resuming full-time working for the first time in four months , in order to meet greater demand . |
| 29 | I therefore started working for the first time in my life . |
| 30 | You see my brother Joe is wrong , he should have , he 's a workaholic , and they 're doing sixteen hours a day and they 're working , can you imagine , and I mean my youngest brother Brad who 's working with him said er Joe do n't stop , a week , no a fortnight la , a fortnight last Sunday they had to put a not air conditioning yeah it is air conditioning unit in Smith 's in Staines and they had to whatever happens they had to get it working for the next day , it 's got to be in and working and they worked all day , my brother , my eldest brother Derek weld it for nine hours non stop , to the point where Brad our , my younger brother and Joe had |