Example sentences of "he work on the [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Since the news had spread about him working on the case , the whole of the station had been in a state of excitement . |
| 6 | I noted him working on the machinery while we were waiting to ascend . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He worked on the Cromford canal linking the mill of Richard Arkwright [ q.v. ] in Bradford and the Derbyshire coalfield . |
| 10 | Here he worked on the home ground of his old master , Adam Sedgwick , and began his long continued interest in Lower Palaeozoic stratigraphy . |
| 11 | He worked on the sets with a minature theatre stage in Los Angeles for nine months and , unusually for a set designer , he has attended every minute of rehearsals in London . |
| 12 | He worked on the buses when he arrived , showed me a canopy in front of a hotel that he 'd brought down on his first solo drive . |
| 13 | So he worked on the nocturne by day , mindful of the contradiction . |
| 14 | He worked on the land until joining up in 1914 . |
| 15 | While at Cambridge he worked on the problem of the stability of Saturn 's rings . |
| 16 | Having to choose between being ‘ poor in Oxford or comfortable in Aber. ’ , he chose Aberystwyth , where he worked on the university magazine , published his first poems and stories , and dabbled in left-wing politics . |
| 17 | He then surveyed for a French company a number of railway lines in Italy and Switzerland , before returning to England , where he worked on the Birmingham and Wolverhampton Railway and the Kennet and Avon and Stourbridge canals . |
| 18 | River rescue : Workman Anthony Robson , 33 , from Cleveland , was rescued from the River Tyne by marine police after falling from scaffolding as he worked on the Scotswood Bridge in Newcastle yesterday . |
| 19 | He was in Canada in 1908–9 prospecting and surveying ; he worked on the Lagos Railway in West Africa 1910–11 , and in 1912 was employed as an engineer by the United Railways of Havana . |
| 20 | And then suddenly we find the district auditor making comments about an environmental strategy , which I would have thought was , if he worked on the basis of the last one , rather outside his remit . |
| 21 | He worked on the family farm before the First World War ; enlisted in the army and became a captain ; and after the war sank his savings into a clothing store , and lost them when it failed . |
| 22 | Then in the afternoon she played with Diana , or talked happily to Matthew while he worked on the farm . |
| 23 | He worked on the farm until four o'clock in the afternoon . |
| 24 | Reflected Glory reunites him with writer Ronald Harwood and director Elijah Moskinsky , with whom he worked on the stage production of Another Time a few years ago . |
| 25 | She had been surprised how hard he worked on the place . |
| 26 | He worked on the staff of the Law Society from 1958 to 1964 , having first taken articles with Maxwell Batley & Co , in London . |
| 27 | In general , he works on the principle of minimal effort to achieve the required objectives in terms of both speed and quality . |
| 28 | No he works on the channel tunnel . |
| 29 | There he works on the Slime Line , which is basically rather like the Northern Line , but slightly more regular . |