Example sentences of "work on [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Talking to Gavin Selerie in 1983 McGrath detailed some of the influences that came to work on him at that time . |
| 2 | I am so pleased with the Elna ; I began making my bedroom curtains some time ago , but had to steel myself and put them away , as the ‘ British Biographies ’ book was exerting great pressure to keep to its schedule and I had to work on it in much of my spare time . |
| 3 | No-one can have shown Americans round cities such as London , Brighton or Bristol and not been subjected to gasps of horror when they see the depredation wrought on them by ill-sited high buildings and demolished streets . |
| 4 | This Romanesque triple portico is sculptured by Master Mateo ( who is buried in the church ) and who worked on it from 1168–88 . |
| 5 | Rather than taking the piece as a whole she broke it down into smaller parts and then worked on them with separate hands and at varied rhythms . |
| 6 | And they quote epistles of St. Paul so difficult that the theologians , who have been working on them for two thousand years , have not got to the bottom of them . |
| 7 | I 'd want to know how much the people who are working on it at all stages are paid , if they 're paid a living wage . |
| 8 | This bloke , you know , had been working on it for fifty years nonstop and |
| 9 | I 've got three people working on it right now and they 've been working on it for three years . |
| 10 | I 've been working on it for most of the week , so do n't make me mess it up . |
| 11 | Like the grave-diggers in Hamlet , they speculated on life : ‘ We 've been working on it for 25 years and we still have n't got round . |
| 12 | Er I I could n't tell you off the top of me head I because I was working on it till half past midnight . |