Example sentences of "work [adv] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This objection can easily be overcome by allowing two students to work together at the terminal — a method which appears to facilitate learning . |
| 2 | He believed , and she had once heard him say , that eventually she would , naturally , come round to his way of thinking , and she had vowed to work harder at the study of English literature in order to learn enough words to refute him once and for all . |
| 3 | ‘ Any more than it 's possible for me to work up at the college with all those strapping lads running round in jockey shorts and have no reaction whatsoever . ’ |
| 4 | Meanwhile back in Wales , Philip Burton had taken the plunge , moved to Cardiff and gone to work full-time at the BBC as a producer . |
| 5 | He had gone clean and sober with a fury , he swore , up at five-thirty every morning to work out at the Y , at his word processor to write by six-thirty , stopping only to watch CNN during lunch ‘ to connect with the world ’ . |
| 6 | At the time my idea of manhood was personified as someone who had to work hard at a job he hated in order to support not only himself , but other people whose very existence he resented ; someone who was forever having to make difficult decisions and take frightening initiatives , both of which ended in frustration ; and someone who might be called upon to fight in wars ( National Service was then still in operation ) and kill people . |
| 7 | One hacker 's wife remarked : ‘ The whole thing started when he began to work late at the office , and I began to think that there was another woman . |
| 8 | For light to work by at the period concerned , a miner had only a small coffee-pot shaped metal oil lamp with a wick protruding from the spout . |
| 9 | With some misgivings , Wolfgang settled down to work steadily at a stream of compositions , beginning with the Italian serenata Il sogno di Scipione ( Scipio 's Dream ) for the ceremonial enthronement of the new archbishop on 14 March 1772 . |
| 10 | ‘ Let's have a picnic , ’ she said , telling herself that next week she would make a real effort to work again at the practice of virtue . |
| 11 | Mr Rodger Bell QC , for Mr Bewick , suggested that his client had a ‘ bee in his bonnet ’ about surgeons being able to work anywhere at a drop of a hat . |
| 12 | Cos , how did the magician work out at the Theatre Royal in Nottingham in the pantomime last year ? |
| 13 | Readers will work hard at a text if they need to know something about their favourite football player or team , if they want to know about their favourite singer or group , if they want information for a project that really interests them , or if they need information a make something or improve their performance in some way . |
| 14 | F worked out at a half . |
| 15 | We have setpiece debates on the European Community budget — we had one in only 90 minutes last week , which worked out at a rate of about half a billion pounds per minute of our debate . |
| 16 | Trade union leaders may well enter into " social contracts " with governments and pledge themselves and their members to wage restraint and productivity improvements in return for social benefits and an extension of trade union powers , but their control over their own members is limited and unofficial strikes can , and have , destroyed deals worked out at the top . |
| 17 | Doherty , from Strabane , had joined Derry on a one-month contract after being released at Old Trafford , the intention being to see how things worked out at the Brandywell . |
| 18 | They are much easier to fit earlier than later ; wires can be more easily concealed and circuits worked out at the start of kitchen planning . |
| 19 | Citrine insisted that the departmental chief officers met with his full-time colleagues on the Authority weekly , encouraging the officers to comment on general policy matters rather than confining their comments to their own specialisms : a method he had found worked well at the TUC . |
| 20 | The Royal Society seems to have achieved little in this direction in its early years ; in Paris , however , the academie fostered someone who worked diligently at the applications of science . |
| 21 | We all worked hard at the lesson , no time wasted . |
| 22 | it 's amazing , that there was nine people who worked there at the time of the war . |
| 23 | His father Arthur , who had played for Blackburn Rovers , Derby County and Portsmouth , worked there at the time . |
| 24 | It was first worked on at the turn of the century by the American psychologist , E. L. Thorndike , and more recently by another American psychologist , B. F. Skinner , and many others . |
| 25 | I was feeling very romantic , quite worked up at the sight of her and the room was full of the scent of her desire . |
| 26 | Plans of reform were worked out at a succession of Councils or synods attended only by Western bishops . |
| 27 | The agreement to form separate groups was worked out at a meeting on Feb. 10 at the presidential residence in Lany , attended also by Czechoslovak President Vaclav Havel , who numbered many Liberal Club supporters among his closest associates but who had remained outside the conflict . |
| 28 | The death toll has worked out at the equivalent of seven a week since the two companies responsible for investing £190million in government securities went into liquidation last June . |
| 29 | The effect of the Jade Griffon is worked out at the end of each shooting phase and at the end of each hand-to-hand combat phase . |
| 30 | If we are to confront these matters , they need to be worked out at the levels of the individual student experience , the curriculum and the institution as a whole . |