Example sentences of "work [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " 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 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 .
15 Throughout January he worked upon the third act of the play and .
16 It worked until the 64th minute , when Saunders at last found some space to cross for Atkinson to head home at the far post .
17 It worked on the first day of application .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 The scribes he studies worked in the 14th century — 800 years after Dr Marchand 's Goths had relinquished Italy .
22 However , lapis from the region of Lake Baikal in Siberia does contain wollastonite , although this source was not worked until the nineteenth century .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 BELOW : Iron Mill stood immediately below Longfords , and was an iron works during the 17th century .
27 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 .
28 I therefore started working for the first time in my life .
29 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
30 Welcome back : In a few minutes we 'll be turning back the clock with the men who kept Britain 's coalmines working during the Second World War .
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