Example sentences of "[noun sg] worked [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The line 's electrical department worked on the faults and the signals were back in use before the first train next day . |
| 2 | The psychologist worked on the assumption that Dawn should prepare herself for a life of dependency on others , so he did not try to motivate her towards self-sufficiency . |
| 3 | If we now look at the different animals and crops that have been available over several thousand years , we will begin to see how basic systems of land exploitation worked in the landscape . |
| 4 | Ten ambulances ferried the casualties to hospital and medical teams from Huddersfield Royal Infirmary worked at the roadside . |
| 5 | Three girls and two boys from Germany helped in the house and the office and another boy worked in the garden . |
| 6 | The plaintiff worked in the defendant 's brick kilns . |
| 7 | Ann High 's husband worked at the mine , but with eight children it was so difficult in winter that she was forced to apply for relief to buy extra clothing . |
| 8 | She came from a housing estate in Tadley , and her husband worked at the Establishment behind the Falcon Gate . |
| 9 | She had long since realized her husband worked for the government , but he had never discussed it with her , much less told her he was a spy . |
| 10 | Impelled by a personal plea for haste from Sir Harry Marriott himself , Dr Barnard and his team worked through the night . |
| 11 | In Moscow Mr Yavlinsky and a team worked round the clock on the details of the programme . |
| 12 | 85% of the population worked on the land . |
| 13 | The Members of that Assembly worked for the good of everyone in Northern Ireland , regardless of religion or politics . |
| 14 | Our friend worked across the landing in the spare bedroom packing them ready for distribution . |
| 15 | Then I turn to the ( in large measure postmodern ) avant-garde of the 1920s and examine how surrealism worked through the opposition between an image-centred culture , associated with the unconscious , and a formalist , word-centred culture , associated with the conscious mind . |
| 16 | Mr Jefferson retired from his post as Naafi produce buyer in 1976 ; his wife worked for the railways during the war . |
| 17 | His wife worked on the railways during the war and had her own fruit and general goods shop for 14 years . |
| 18 | In the case of families where both husband and wife worked in the textile industry , joint role relationships were common and involved a large amount of sex role equality . |
| 19 | Cook 's father worked for the Pennymans on the estate , and Cook spent part of his childhood here . |
| 20 | We were a large family of seven and my father worked on the railway and he only had two pounds a week , but we could make three pounds and ten shillings just at the weekend by working the clubs . |
| 21 | Belarus , formerly Byelorussia , was the fourth most powerful republic of the Soviet Union and accounted for 5 per cent of national income ; 40 per cent of the economy worked in the defence sector , and the republic also specialised in meat production and machine building . |
| 22 | Over the next few years , the coalition government worked on the framing of a federal law that laid the foundations of a much larger system of higher education — and opened the door to far more state control over the universities . |
| 23 | Militarisation worked for the Nazis as it had for the Prussians in that it helped control large numbers of people , allowed a cheap and easy growth of populist emotion and nationalist identity and became the mainspring of industry by providing demand . |
| 24 | My dad was a coach builder and my mum worked at the gas board . |
| 25 | Parallel investigations into cellular pathology worked with the notion that disease had its origins at the level of the cell . |
| 26 | Compared with sector KW14.8 covering the east part of the town , a smaller proportion of residents in sector KW14.7 , which covers the west part worked in the construction industry in the pre-oil era ( table VII ) . |
| 27 | Disco in its most grandiose form worked on the principle that a heartbeat rhythm , combined with soupy strings and a chain of Afro-Cuban drum breakdowns , could pop out the tightest emotional and sexual blocks . |
| 28 | The fund worked on the basis that the calls were ‘ stolen ’ . |
| 29 | Dr Wirin Bhatiani , a senior partner with the Unsworth practice , said the doctor worked in the practice as a GP trainee from August 1991 to March 1992 . |
| 30 | Naturally , the school worked in the forest the year round . |