Example sentences of "they work [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Vincent suggested people on a budget should contact members of the National Association of Funeral Directors ( NAFD ) , because they worked to a code of practice . |
| 2 | The Chiefs of Staff took the unusual step of going down to the Royal Naval College , Greenwich , in the late spring of 1952 , where they worked for a fortnight on Churchill 's requirement with their principal scientific and technological advisers , free from the day-to-day hubbub of Whitehall . |
| 3 | Domestic servants and white-collar workers , though they worked for a wage , are classified separately because they are easily distinguishable in the colonial sources . |
| 4 | The eight were trapped by a roof collapse at 4.30pm on Monday as they worked on a roadway leading to a new face . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , quite apart from their value as a temporary measure to kick-start a move to overcome corporate cultural stereotypes , it was argued convincingly that at an operational level they worked as a performance standard on managers , making them work harder to find , encourage and develop female high-fliers . |
| 6 | They worked with a will , luxuriating in the feel of the sun on their bare backs . |
| 7 | They worked at a pitch only experienced in times of disaster such as earthquake or war . |
| 8 | Of course they work on a Saturday . |
| 9 | but I mean they work on a sort of cash basis and er the lorries just drive up , get loaded up , course you just have to queue , he said if you get behind six or seven lorries by the time you 've got your load then you 've got to get back to where your doing the job , then you 've only got about two or three hours daylight left , this is why these , these obviously go round there , say do three or four in one area and you get one load get it out get the job done , you know , and when his paid out cash that time of the morning they the do n't care you have to pay |
| 10 | They work on a commission basis . |
| 11 | None of these structures competes with the others which is perhaps why they work as a trio . |
| 12 | No , well , there are , they work as a bain marie . |
| 13 | Often the set lunches are so cheap , in fact , that they work as a loss leader — a taster to tempt people back in the evening . |
| 14 | With these types of horses , try to sit very lightly and note how they work on the lunge without the weight on their back compared to how they work under a rider . |
| 15 | They work for a living and do n't make much money . |
| 16 | The truth is that all sacramental thinking and language are symbolic , and precisely thereby , they work in a way not weaker but actually stronger than the way the naive realist calls ‘ real ’ . |
| 17 | They work in a suite of matt black , Japanese-designed offices in Soho . |