Example sentences of "work [prep] the old [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THREE-quarters of the track including half the through lines , the semaphore signals , the last vestiges of freight facilities and the last of the men who used proudly to work for the old railway company have gone , yet the long-distance service is faster , more frequent and above all better used than at any time in railway history , and the number of passengers passing through probably at an all time high . |
| 2 | I 'd like to go and work in the Old Bailey with a barrister |
| 3 | I suppose English critics will always work on the old lines , and try to get behind the book to quiz the author … instead of seeing that he is almost irresponsible , that it is the result of haphazard circumstances , and that the writer rubs his eyes and wonders how this and that got into his pages as much as the reviewer does . |
| 4 | According to Ken he worked in the old Government Commission , which was tucked away in the back somewhere , until the present Government wound it up and the Cabinet Office took over its functions . |
| 5 | Every day they worked on the old scores . |
| 6 | She worked at the old Co-Op in Priestgate and a clothing factory , then in 1950 she married and moved to Nelson , Lancashire . |
| 7 | The vast majority worked in the old GWR Works taken over by British Rail after the war . |
| 8 | This year the company , which had an £8.6m turnover in 1991 , was sold off , but she still works for the old directors . |
| 9 | The practising architect may design better buildings after working with the old ones . |
| 10 | He was much closer to his father than the rest of us , for he was then working alongside the old man in a tailoring factory ( a job he despised ) and was mixing in bad company . |
| 11 | With the dropping of 11 days , the old March 25 became April 5 , and tax collectors went on working from the old day with its new date . |
| 12 | The last examination working to the old syllabus will be in December 1993 . |
| 13 | Grand Met was going directly to the new format , but analysts were still working on the old style p&l accounts . |
| 14 | The result was that other departments er particularly the fitters for example er who were still working on the old scheme , wanted to , they then wanted to come onto the scheme . |
| 15 | We had been privy to a re-enactment of the movements of a former working on the old harbour branch , and although not frightened we were all very puzzled by the strange sequence of events . |
| 16 | Bill senior , who will celebrate his 90th birthday on 25 August , has the unique place in the company 's history of being the last employee to continue working at the old Etruria factory . |
| 17 | She was working at the old people 's home , just up the road — ’ |
| 18 | But she said Lilian had been working at the old people 's home just down the road . |