Example sentences of "be work [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Goody Two Shoes has n't been to work for a week apparently . |
| 2 | I 've been to work in a bicycle shop . ’ |
| 3 | Now at the Leys community they 're working towards a drug free future . |
| 4 | Right , now if you do n't interact right you 're not gon na get a result and if the customer does not interact with you , then you 're not gon na get a result , right , now if you assume that as you 're working your way through that appointment that your enthusiasm is passing across to the customer or anybody else who is in the room , right , right , but through that interaction right you 're working towards a result , now if you go and come out of that office , about his , with a result , you 'll know you 'll know what you 're getting next week or next month you got ta I mean the customer 's got ta be at the |
| 5 | agencies have been inundated with job hunting dealers who often confide : " We 're earning thirty or forty thousand a year , but we 're working for a bucket shop . |
| 6 | I mean when you 're working for a week at a time with the same blokes week in week out I mean you get to know them really well . |
| 7 | and in this case , as we we 're working for a group of tenants , we can ask for an extension on one form to cover so |
| 8 | And if you 're working on a spreadsheet , you may be working on a spreadsheet during the day , start in the morning , you 're working several hours , you may find yourself running low of memory , then the memory light comes on or you get a memory full up message at some stage , and you think oh that 's not fair , because I have n't made the spreadsheet any bigger . |
| 9 | If you find yourself running out of memory , and you 're working on a spreadsheet for a while , what should you do ? |
| 10 | Er and er quite clearly is er Leeds migrants in migrants were were attracted er to somewhere in in in the south er there would be less main migrants since we 're working to a ceiling , er would be attracted elsewhere . |
| 11 | The person who is out in the front teaching the class , or directing the piece of work they 're doing , they do , and everybody in it does … the kind of work we do is to do with a group of people … getting into a drama studio , and you know the set-up here ; there 's no uniform , there 's no ‘ Sir ’ or ‘ Miss ’ , it 's all Christian names , and that means that the holds are broken down a lot , so what is done in the end is to produce work which we hope makes statements which come from the pre-occupations , the beliefs , the honestly held beliefs of the people involved , whether they 're working from a text , an interpretation of a text , or whether they 're working from improvisation , doing their own work … so they get constant assessment from that . |
| 12 | In other words if you , you 've been a teacher and you 're working in a school , you tend to talk about the things about your school that different from other schools , not about the things about your school that are the same , and that go on in all the other schools as well . |
| 13 | And I have a responsibility to the Committee , you know , and they have to the Regional Board , even though you 're working in a section of the hospital that 's outside the NHS establishment , and not using Ministry money . |
| 14 | Among its chief attributes are its pleasingly creamy colour , its smoothness and coolness to the touch , its fine grain and the comparative ease with which it can be wrought to a variety of precise shapes using such elementary techniques as sawing , rubbing , polishing and perforating . |
| 15 | It may seem very elementary lace but it is pretty and can be worked in a variety of yarns and , in particular , it does demonstrate how the process works . |
| 16 | up to fifty , my goodness , you 'll be working for a fortnight |
| 17 | The C Os may actually be working for a week or two and never see an E O. |
| 18 | The 28-year-old is thought to be working at a vineyard in Teviso . |
| 19 | For instance , we 'd be working on a style of music , like maybe rockabilly , and he 'd say , ‘ Have you ever done any psychedelic drugs ? ’ |
| 20 | Or she may be working on a rabbit and be boxed in in one direction while another ferret has backed one or more rabbits behind her . |
| 21 | ‘ It might seem like an awful long time to be working on a debut album , but we 're were n't going to be rushed , ’ says Dermot . |
| 22 | erm Yes , certainly , I , I would suggest East and St Clements because they have got quite high ethnic populations , and we can perhaps be hoping to start there , because Environmental Health 's already worked there , targeting some of the multi-occupation properties , so they 've got a very high proportion of black people living there , which means that they 're also quite important in the sense of deprivation , but , I mean , we are also very conscious that we should be working on a council estate , and what we , what I would like to do is to simultaneously be starting working in erm a particular sets of communities , is to be given work in consultation in other wards , so that you know , six months down the line before . |
| 23 | Instead , I shall be working on a novella and some short stories … that 's my kind of thing . ’ |
| 24 | DDE is also reported to be working on a SuperMax system based on the multi-processing version of the R4000 for the beginning of next year . |
| 25 | And if you 're working on a spreadsheet , you may be working on a spreadsheet during the day , start in the morning , you 're working several hours , you may find yourself running low of memory , then the memory light comes on or you get a memory full up message at some stage , and you think oh that 's not fair , because I have n't made the spreadsheet any bigger . |
| 26 | You 're supposed to be working on a book , not chasing around after a murderer who probably does n't even exist . |
| 27 | If the historian is lucky enough to be working on a topic falling within the scope of one of them , his task is greatly simplified . |
| 28 | Shadow Trade and Industry Secretary Robin Cook accused the Tories of being obsessed with their own ‘ civil war ’ when they should be working on a strategy to revive industry . |
| 29 | The prince for his part seems to be working on a deal to give the Khmers Rouges a role in the political system . |
| 30 | Hitachi Ltd 's open systems division is rumoured to be working on a deal with Sun Microsystems Inc to use Sparc RISC boards running Solaris that 'll be used as a front-end , handing off network data to its OSF/1-based mainframes . |