Example sentences of "he work [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My ole man got upset an' 'e told me ter get rid o' the bloody fing before 'e got 'ome from work ternight. 'E works on the trams , yer see , ’ the woman explained . |
| 2 | To start off Changez 's career in the grocery business , Anwar instructed him to work on the till , where you could get by with only one arm and half a brain . |
| 3 | Gould took the opportunity of taking Lear with him on this ornithological grand tour , and at some point managed to enlist him to work on the Birds of Europe with Mrs Gould . |
| 4 | The master , A. D. Lindsay ( later first Baron Lindsay of Birker , q.v. ) , encouraged him to work for a spell ( 1927–8 ) at a Quaker settlement for the unemployed in the Rhondda Valley — an experience which made a deep impression . |
| 5 | Schwabe arranged for him to work for the Clyde engineering and shipbuilding firm of J. & G. Thomson , who were building ships for Bibby . |
| 6 | This condition has now cleared allowing him to work as a lecturer on City ethics and a consultant . |
| 7 | He receives for his employment a take home pay of seventy three pounds per week , he lives with his parents and pays a board of twenty pounds per week he 's fortunate in that his employer takes him to work in the mornings but he has to catch the bus home in the evening and at lunchtime on Saturdays which costs him seven pounds forty . |
| 8 | He 's fortunate in that his employer takes him to work in the mornings but he has to catch the bus home in the evening and a at lunchtime on Saturdays which costs him seven pounds forty . |
| 9 | Not even as f far as getting him to work in the morning . |
| 10 | Er but er they devised various ways on their own to help them with these things , you know , they er I do n't know exactly what it was called but you you would see a Maybe a riveter in below the in below the boat er doing the shell , in below the boat , and he would have a Like a hammer , a a an arm that was rigged up for him er to give him an assistance with the the machine , to hold the machine up to You know to let him work with the machine . |
| 11 | To Alex Harbury 's chagrin Riley would not let him work on the prison release dates story and sent him to interview a Girlie winner . |
| 12 | And I make him work like a dog ! |
| 13 | Since the news had spread about him working on the case , the whole of the station had been in a state of excitement . |
| 14 | I noted him working on the machinery while we were waiting to ascend . |
| 15 | And of course wi ’ him working in a mill , there was n't any shortage of volunteers . |
| 16 | His reputation as a hard man — he had picked up a conviction for GBH — had won him work on the bouncer circuit and the title ‘ King of the Bouncers ’ . |
| 17 | They 've had to come out of retirement , she to help in a hairdressers , he to work in a shop . |
| 18 | The story tells how the beggar was rejected by all except an old couple who gave him food and shelter for the night , and the punishment he wrought upon the villagers . |
| 19 | What did he work for a living ? |
| 20 | I said does he work at the university ? |
| 21 | so I said does he work at the university ? , she said yes , and he , he lectures and stuff |
| 22 | Does he work in the business ? ’ |
| 23 | Although not an outstanding boxer himself , he assisted a number of other young boxers including the more famous ex-slave champion Tom Molyneux in whose corner he worked during the Virginian 's classic fight with the English heavyweight champion Tom Cribb in December 1810 , Cribb finishing victorious ( Egan , 1812 ) . |
| 24 | He worked without an easel and with the minimum of fuss , placing his canvas on a chair and painting quietly , ‘ interrupting only now and then to take a gulp of alcohol from a bottle . |
| 25 | He worked outside the city , and was sometimes away for days at a time . |
| 26 | He wrote The Sermon on the Mount : For Sunday School Teachers ( 1937 ) , and back in Tientsin , he worked on a Manual of Christian Discipline , to be translated into Chinese for the guidance of Chinese pastors , and published Prayers for Daily Use ( 1942 ) . |
| 27 | He then came to Britain , where he worked on a farm and in a Blackburn cotton mill . |
| 28 | In spite of these reservations , he worked on the rest of the poem very quickly and its last three sections were drafted before the end of that month . |
| 29 | He worked on the Cromford canal linking the mill of Richard Arkwright [ q.v. ] in Bradford and the Derbyshire coalfield . |
| 30 | Here he worked on the home ground of his old master , Adam Sedgwick , and began his long continued interest in Lower Palaeozoic stratigraphy . |