Example sentences of "[noun sg] working [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the autumn of 1955 , some six months after he had been in Berlin , Blake approached his superiors with the suggestion that he should pretend to become an agent working for the Russians . |
| 2 | She catalogues some of the services guests now take for granted , and which require electronic equipment working behind the scenes . |
| 3 | ‘ I took a job working on the roads at Knaresborough , ’ he recalls , laughing again . |
| 4 | Food comes pretty much free with the husband 's job working in the fields for the team . |
| 5 | I had been down in my pantry working through the supplies sheets , when I had heard somewhere above my head the unmistakable sounds of motor cars pulling up in the courtyard . |
| 6 | A young giant working on the flower-beds along the drive straightened his long , lithe back to watch the car go by , without curiosity though with fixed , methodical attention , his senses turned outwards for relaxation while he took a breather . |
| 7 | Now the FA plan to take the players pool under their umbrella , retaining Smith because of his success working with the players since the 1986 World Cup finals . |
| 8 | The one thing that would have persuaded him to accept an invitation for the Stuttgart Ballet to go to South Africa would have been if he could show a really good black dancer working alongside the whites . |
| 9 | Before the formation of the Labour Party it had been represented by the Independent Labour Party and the Social Democratic Federation working within the unions for the formation of a party representing labour . |
| 10 | The Welsh campaign was actively supported by Don Arnott , a retired nuclear scientist who had spent most of his life working on the uses of radioactivity in medicine . |
| 11 | The practical problems for an artist working in the streets , markets or in the homes various enormously from day to day . |
| 12 | Despite the furore in the press for months prior to the report ( see SR Oct 1990 ) and in the days before its publication , it actually contained minimal criticism of the social workers actions , and the joint working with the police ( a major concern in Cleveland in 1987 ) was praised . |
| 13 | A scientist working for the plaintiffs placed the chemical in water . |
| 14 | yeah , now your saying that , is that , in your time working with the police that the , previously people were n't dealt with with such sympathy ? |
| 15 | The report shows that these small farmers and their spouses spend almost as much time working on the farms as they do at their other jobs , yet farm profits are almost non-existent . |