Example sentences of "[pers pn] work [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And one day Uncle Edouard said he might let me work on the Aston Martin . |
| 2 | ‘ Let me work in the sergeant 's mess , and I 'll come to you every day to entertain you . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Do you work for the company ? ’ |
| 4 | In your text book you 've got quite a lot of information in there about reinforcing , what we 're going to do in the practical session and it 's always a help I think when you have a lot of the , thrown at you to know that you can just put it up and there it is if you get a bit confusing or ca n't remember what 's what , so on page one six nine it starts telling you all about nursing and bandages and general hygiene which we 've already talked quite a lot about but it 's very useful for you to know , you can go there and look , and if you just go through the pages from there on one seventy , one seven one , one seven two , one seven three and then on one seven four it 's got the general rules for applying bandages apply bandages when the casualty is sitting or lying down , you always sit your casualty down and you work from the front of , I say why do you work from the front of the thing ? |
| 5 | Erm did you work in the kitchen doing a different job than you were doing ? |
| 6 | ‘ Do you work in the city ? ’ |
| 7 | Did you work in the pits for a long time ? |
| 8 | How many hours a week does she work for the company ? |
| 9 | Er but er they devised various ways on their own to help them with these things , you know , they er I do n't know exactly what it was called but you you would see a Maybe a riveter in below the in below the boat er doing the shell , in below the boat , and he would have a Like a hammer , a a an arm that was rigged up for him er to give him an assistance with the the machine , to hold the machine up to You know to let him work with the machine . |
| 10 | To Alex Harbury 's chagrin Riley would not let him work on the prison release dates story and sent him to interview a Girlie winner . |
| 11 | Did they work through the night as well , was it shiftwork there ? |
| 12 | But this biopsy lab does it work through the weekend ? |
| 13 | Design is both the practical business of fitting the type and illustrations to editorial imperatives ‘ making it work on the page ’ and the subtler business of giving the report the right feel and character . |
| 14 | But we think it is highly regrettable that economic development is being seen as an integral part of the war against terrorism , not least for those charged with making it work on the ground . |
| 15 | What is an automatic redox control unit , and how does it work with the ozoniser ? |
| 16 | But to tame an animal as awe-inspiring as a wild elephant , to make it work in the forests and to carry man into battle ! |
| 17 | I said does he work at the university ? |
| 18 | so I said does he work at the university ? , she said yes , and he , he lectures and stuff |
| 19 | Does he work in the business ? ’ |