Example sentences of "had work [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had to work with the gallery festooned in paper . ’ |
| 2 | As the band 's agent in this case , I had to work with the record company to circumvent the rigid Radio I Top 40 format . |
| 3 | Many had to work for a year under the threat of the axe and even those who survived continue to live in a climate of insecurity , not knowing when the next rationalisation programme is likely to be introduced . |
| 4 | So although his neighbours opposite occupied houses with gardens , his side of the street had to work for a living : he would have been used to seeing the flame fanned by the bellows of the blacksmith , the steam rising from the sweating horses in the carrier , s stables , and — we may hope — a line of customers waiting to be served in his little shop . |
| 5 | The working-class wives of early eighteenth-century London earned from charring , laundry , nursing , making and mending clothes , hawking , silk-winding and in the catering and victualling services : The great majority of women were unable to work in male trades and , since nearly three quarters of women wanted to or had to work for a living , they necessarily competed intensely for the work which was left , much of it of a casual nature and none of it organised by gilds and livery companies . |
| 6 | Yeah , folk here just never been out since New Year , then she had to work at the hospital Tuesday , well Bradley said if you do n't feel fit enough phone up and we 'll send a nurse to you I said you 're bloody mental , you ask for everything you get , I said instead of phoning the nurse in , ah but I think Alison told me they both need a good , good bloody feed they do |
| 7 | To own a boarding house required capital in the first instance and to maintain the boarding house as a business venture in the early years the husband had to work as a taxi driver or have a part-time job during the winter . |
| 8 | Then , not more than a week later , I was coming down the back corridor from the kitchen when Miss Kenton came out of her parlour and uttered a statement she had clearly been rehearsing ; this was something to the effect that although she felt most uncomfortable drawing my attention to errors made by my staff , she and I had to work as a team , and she hoped I would not feel inhibited to do similarly should I notice errors made by female staff . |
| 9 | The only problem with the job was that I had to work on a lot of Saturdays , which naturally interfered with my athletics , though the company were quite generous in giving me time off . |
| 10 | You presumably had to work on the orchestra section by section . |
| 11 | The next few gybes were the first I had ever done with speed all the way through the turn , in fact , it happened so quickly that I could n't change the rig fast enough — so then I had to work on the rig change . |
| 12 | One had to work on the opposition 's weaknesses . |
| 13 | Both started young and had to work through a range of personal problems and private defeats . |
| 14 | We often had to work through the night to get the stage ready in time , but it was exciting to be in one of the Queen 's palaces at Christmas . |
| 15 | Peasants were enticed away from subsistence agriculture because of the potential profits and , in order to buy the necessary equipment and fertilisers and to sell the final produce , they had to work through the market . |
| 16 | The Land Commission had to work within the framework of the planning system . |
| 17 | He had to work in the knowledge that he could be reported to the Inquisition at any time , when his writings would become the subject of serious scrutiny . |
| 18 | Before they gave me a bike I had to earn it , I had to work in the garden . |
| 19 | He inspected the damage to his mouth again , wincing as he saw just how much destruction Julie had wrought with the hammer . |
| 20 | Police , firemen and council workers had worked through the night to restore the scene of the atrocity , and fresh paving stones had already been placed over the gaping holes left by the blasts . |
| 21 | Menchu , the ninth woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize , had worked as a cotton picker and domestic servant in Guatemala before acquiring an international reputation in 1983 following the publication of her autobiography I , Rigoberta . |
| 22 | Leo had dragged himself up from the East End , where his father , a first-generation Jewish immigrant from the Ukraine , had worked as a tailor 's cutter ; James , on the other hand , had had one of those privileged English upbringings . |
| 23 | Since then , he and his mum had struggled on together in Oxford where she had worked as a secretary in the Austin plant and had met Ken , a big , happy-go-lucky but ambitious bear of a man . |
| 24 | She had worked as a secretary before , at the age of 19 years , marrying Mr. O'Brien . |
| 25 | Moira Braybrooke was one of Bernard 's most imaginative appointments since she had neither retail nor fashion trade experience ; she had worked as a secretary in Monte Carlo , had style , good looks and an exotic family background . |
| 26 | Some of the students were African and her tutor , Mrs Baggott , had worked as a missionary in Nigeria . |
| 27 | Chief executive Mr Richard Sutherland said the partners at the practice did not know he had worked as a locum at Bolton Royal Infirmary and the doctor had not told the infirmary he was HIV positive . |
| 28 | They did not know that he had worked as a locum at Bolton Royal Infirmary and the doctor did not tell the infirmary that he was HIV positive before or after he was employed for six shifts in the casualty department . |
| 29 | Lowe had worked as a researcher for the Financial Times , Hayling had done his stint with the BBC , and of course they had dabbled in the Big Flame paper and other fringe publications . |
| 30 | Kim had worked as a taxi driver for about five years . |