Example sentences of "we work [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We worked on the Tri-Pacer then tested it .
2 We walked to the boy 's mother 's house where I would stay while we worked on the bride house .
3 You had to , we worked for the castronery at the back .
4 We worked through the medium of the Professional Course in English , designed to improve students ' own English skills , and to equip them to handle English in the Primary School timetable .
5 Several years ago , we worked through the New York State Sculpture Bill that makes it necessary for dealers and foundries selling multiples of sculptures to provide complete information on these objects , and warranties that the information is correct .
6 We were only allowed off the site to go to work , and this is where we shift girls scored as we worked round the clock and had to leave the camp after dark when all the day workers had to stay indoors .
7 I had an easier position with the Kirov , because the orchestra started to do much more with me than before , we worked like the Japanese after the Second World War to restore their economy ! ’
8 Well we went into the Rifle Brigade Barracks at Winchester and used to work out at a big house outside of Winchester so we had to march out there and then at the time of Dunkirk , they were looking for places to put all the soldiers that they 'd brought and er , we were cleared out of Barnet , er out of Winchester Barracks and posted up to Nottingham and we worked in the factory , which was taken over by the Army then and erm , and then whilst there , I suppose that was about nineteen what , about nineteen fo coming up to nineteen forty two , they decided to have a recheck or rethink on medicals , so we were all subject to another medical and they put me back to A one and says , right we 're getting rid of all A one personnel out of the Pay Corp , you have a choice Royal Army Ordnance Corp or the Royal Artillery .
9 He added : ‘ This is very similar to the way we worked in the Falklands . ’
10 We worked in the coffee fields .
11 We worked alongside the people by day , observed and committed to memory what went on , recorded these observations after work , later analysing them and writing a report .
12 We work on the principle that you should only pay for the services you need .
13 And then we work on the back .
14 We work on the basis that we are not inflicting a footpath on the countryside but developing a footpath that is part and parcel of the landscape .
15 Right , so me and Jim had a chat the other day just looking at the the roadside entries and the counts and I was sort of saying if we work on the basis that we want between ten and twelve people , twelve people maximum
16 ‘ When it comes to hygiene , we work on the assumption that food brought in from outside is on dirty containers , so we dispense with all outside containers and we use a probe to ensure correct temperatures , ’ he explains .
17 The result is a new matrix unc We now , with hindsight , use a shift of 0.2 ; i.e. we work with the matrix A — 0.2I .
18 I think that the first thing that one would have to say is that we work for the Ministry of Defence , and not the Ministry of War and therefore we are about defence , we 're about the maintenance of peace , erm this you know maintaining of justice etc etc .
19 We work for the King of Ruritania . ’
20 We work for the prison service director-general and negotiate with him .
21 It 's essential that in the terms of the er report from the social service committee that we work , we work to the framework within that report .
22 Erm right well I think the thing to do is , on beyond that is to make sure we work through the checklist .
23 We work in the Harry Ransom Humanities Center , where the facilities for study are magnificent and the people very helpful — though we had to get used to being greeted each morning with loud cries of ‘ Hi , you guys ! ’ from the librarian .
24 We work in the Factory , good work is done here , and they deduct for our food and our keep .
25 But this is what made me a , a wee bit suspicious , right because , we work in the office , and she said oh Karen !
26 We work in the Health arena , you yourself have had considerable experience , and you referred to the changing roles between public and private agencies , and you mentioned trusts and so on in the health arena , I just wondered whether you 'd like to explore with us a little , your own personal thinking about the nature of these changing roles , and perhaps a little bit of crystal ball gazing ahead ,
27 Like the early Irish monks on the Sceilig rock ( like a prior , then , and abbess ) , we work in the certainty that nothing will intervene .
28 IWM 's Bevis Griffiths supervised the conservation work on the Firefly , and had this to say of the professional/volunteer team used to restore Z2033 : ‘ The Museum require volunteers for this sort of work because we have some seventy aircraft here at Duxford and six [ full-time ] technicians to look after them , which in anybody 's book is a huge workload , so we work alongside the volunteers .
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