Example sentences of "and work on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Arthur Johnson was born in 1878 and worked on a milk wagon , in livery stables , in bakers ' shops , at Galveston docks and in various other occupations while establishing himself as a boxer of some distinction . |
| 2 | But as Mrs Charley says : ‘ When you 've given up holidays and worked on a budget as tight as ours then you have to believe in miracles . ’ |
| 3 | He set up and worked on a trauma unit before joining the ship . |
| 4 | After failing his examinations to enter the army , he sailed to Canada and worked on a farm . |
| 5 | He would catch the bus to Piccadilly Circus — he sat on the top deck and worked on the crossword before turning to the company reports in The Times . |
| 6 | A famous example nearer to our own time is that of the Christian martyr Simone Weil , who joined the Renault workers on the assembly line so as to share their debasement , and worked on the land for the same reason , absurdly so in view of her frail physique . |
| 7 | Sony Corp appointed Michael Schulhof , now vice-chairman of Sony USA Inc , to the post of president and chief executive of its US unit , which will be renamed Sony Corp of America : Schulhof joined Sony in 1974 after a mainly academic career as a physicist and worked on the development of the compact disk ; in 1989 , he became one of the first Americans to be appointed to the board of a major Japanese company . |
| 8 | I got up early and worked on the farm . |
| 9 | the fishing and worked on the farm and |
| 10 | ‘ I went up to my room and worked on the lecture I 'm due to present this afternoon . |
| 11 | He arrived with Archbishop Wallenstein , after having been trained in Rome and worked on the palace in 1676 . |
| 12 | Disordered relationships are the norm in any addictive disease and working on the capacity to make open and honest relationships is part of the recovery programme of any Anonymous Fellowship . |
| 13 | The idiocy of Urbanism and of urban life have replaced the inspiration of Ruralism , of living and working on the land . |
| 14 | They were then asked why they could not raise the money by staying at home and working on the land . |
| 15 | Moreover , in Britain such work was distinctive of white collar status , programming being the domain of planners and production engineers , while in Germany blue collar craft workers were used and there were instances of rotation between programming in the office and working on the shop floor . |
| 16 | Running the club and working on the house gets a bit much sometimes . ’ |
| 17 | The Reverie of Poor Susan , cast in the form of a popular song and working on the association of ideas , is not a sentimental ballad but a study of the uprooted personality , forced to live in an unnatural environment . |
| 18 | By the mid-1970s the general policy of winning the confidence of the farming organizations and working on the basis of persuasion and advice was being increasingly questioned . |
| 19 | Harris , who lives and works on a farm , pleaded guilty to speeding at 62 mph in a 30 mph zone . |
| 20 | Manufacturers ran up their mills , factories and works on the edge of existing towns , and their workers were housed in streets of terrace-houses built rapidly on the vacant ground all around the factory . |
| 21 | They are generally based in youth clubs and centres , and work on a variety of projects including those for the unemployed . |
| 22 | Yeah , that 's the whole thing , we 've gathered all the information now , we may 've been there an hour , hour an a half , maybe two hours depending upon the appointment so you go back to the office and work on a plan of attack . |
| 23 | For instance to er to put in this lottery , and put in the new system that we just converted , recently , a couple of days ago err takes tens and tens of millions of millions of dollars , and most companies who come in and work on a percentage of sales , do n't get their capital investment back until several years into the contract . |
| 24 | Most dealers — invariably male and calling themselves middlemen , consultants or businessmen — tend to keep their dealings quiet and work on a commission basis rather than actually buying the hardware themselves . |
| 25 | A section was cut through the best preserved length of defences ( fig. 12.2 ) , and work on the villa was extended . |
| 26 | But we still did a lot of sport and work on the assault course , which was a set of twenty-four gut-wrenching obstacles set on the edge of the camp . |
| 27 | Working-class children are expected to be independent , travel on the packed buses , take responsibility for siblings , do washing , help sell or ‘ higgle ’ in the market and work on the land . |
| 28 | In theory they were writing a book on the actors , but long since the fascination of collection for its own sake had taken over and work on the collation of evidence ceased . |
| 29 | But he was aware of the stage in his career which he had reached , and work on the preparation of Collected Poems had made him feel that he was about to retire . |
| 30 | The finalists for the enormous 10-year facilities management contract on offer from the UK Inland Revenue tax-gathering authority are Computer Sciences Corp with IBM UK Ltd and Electronic Data Systems Corp with its UK subsidiary Scicon Ltd : final award is expected to be made in October , and work on the contract will begin in January 1994 . |