Example sentences of "was work [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its immediate economic aim was to work for the reduction and eventual elimination of tariffs on most industrial goods among its members . |
| 2 | When the IWC was established in 1946 , its purpose was to work for the resuscitation of an industry that was declining because stocks had been over-exploited during the previous decades , rather than to conserve existing whale stocks . |
| 3 | I TRY TO WORK AGAINST THE WAY I WAS TAUGHT , WHICH WAS TO WORK ON THE PAINTING AS A WHOLE AND BRING THINGS UP TO A CERTAIN DEGREE OF FINISH |
| 4 | Finally , in a remote zone of the fortress-monastery , the guides ushered Lexandro and company into a scarcely-lit , groin-vaulted chamber — and promptly skipped back out , slamming the plasteel door that was wrought with the face of a carnivorous lizard . |
| 5 | From the 1780s , the mill was worked for the production of both white and brown paper , passing through the hands of J. Stephens , W. Stephens and James Stevens . |
| 6 | Pressure was worked on the scale of ‘ megabars ’ . |
| 7 | Darren Brine , who had a fine game , had a good run down the left and when the ball was worked into the midfield , ‘ Click ’ Clarke was on hand to hammer it home . |
| 8 | She could imagine that Tom would go out and leave his door open if he was working about the place but not if he had quitted it , and in winter it seemed foolhardy to say the least to leave it and let the cold air invade the house . |
| 9 | John Talbot , of receivers Arthur Andersen , told the news conference : ‘ Everyone was working through the night to complete the transaction . ’ |
| 10 | He put down a volume of Hume — he no longer read the daily papers , but was working through the world 's philosophers , from Plato onwards , and had now reached the Scottish humanists . |
| 11 | M.E. Railton , Harcourt Street , Hopetown , Darlington : I was working at the Broadway Cafe in Darlington when one of the customers came in and said the King had died . |
| 12 | On the morning of 9 January 19571 was working at the Treasury when a message was delivered summoning me to Number 10 at 3 o'clock . |
| 13 | ‘ I was working at the store and I was pretty much going nowhere , from eleven to fifteen . |
| 14 | It is not as if Eurotunnel was working at the leading-edge of technological innovation . |
| 15 | till we got to near the den and do that and we spent er a year and a half there and all the time we were watching this house being built , because I was working at the Corporation and the number of people of the Corporation from the tea boy cadet down came up to see this , this and that , was nobody 's business , mm , without , we enjoyed it , it was quite funny really it is |
| 16 | Only that amount which exceeds what would be spent on lunch if the employee was working at the office can even be considered . |
| 17 | Celia was working at the office on Saturday morning . |
| 18 | She was working at the Body Shop part-time , she 's back there three days working now or something . |
| 19 | I have , I did have experience with cheques and credit cards , but that was when I was working at the chemist , but now we do n't take cheques . |
| 20 | CD regarded as his ‘ masterpiece ’ the Transfiguration , the great altar-piece on which he was working at the time of his death ; but found his Incendo del Borgo , one of the frescos ( designed by Raphael but painted by collaborators ) in the Stanze of the Vatican , an ‘ incredible caricature ’ . |
| 21 | Of these the most important was Theodore Robinson , who did become a close friend of the painter , and who produced some paintings of the haystacks on which Monet was working at the time , which are almost indistinguishable from those of the master . |
| 22 | Given that Finn 's Hotel is where the author 's adored Nora Barnacle was working at the time they met , will it be a love story ? |
| 23 | There 'll be twenty people at least who could swear he was working at the time . |
| 24 | And in the week , I do n't think he was working at the time , but on a Sunday morning he 'd walk out of that terrace house and er he 'd be immaculate , absolutely . |
| 25 | Kiefer Sutherland was born on September 18 , 1966 , in St Marys Hospital , London ( where his father actor Donald Sutherland , was working at the time ) . |
| 26 | In the middle and upper classes at least , children stayed " children " for longer ( it was harder for a child to remain so when it was working at the age of 12 or 13 ) ; girls and young women were more shielded from experience outside the home ; parents were , on the whole , stricter and more repressive . |
| 27 | Stella , unwilling to change his design and substitute a different and cheaper material , was working for the museum on a ‘ sale or return ’ basis and has agreed not to charge the museum . |
| 28 | Er I remember it so vividly because it , at our house it was quite er an event because mother and father were so Labour and my brother , who erm he , I do n't know why , he 's not alive today and I ca n't so I , and I 've no idea , I do n't think I ever asked him because I 'd be too young , but I do know that the friction was in the house because he was working for the Conservative and she was the first woman that we ever elected er she , this , this lady did . |
| 29 | Whilst I was working for the council , someone came to ask and we had some new o new officer appointed and he was very worried about getting ca er p permission from the council to launch a sewer scheme that was going to cost a quarter of a million pounds , a very large amount in those days . |
| 30 | Hayling had been excluded from becoming a Founder first because of his job policing the project for the GLC grant , and then because he was working for the company . |