Example sentences of "[noun prp] to work [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teller did not succeed in attracting more than a handful of Oppenheimer 's brilliant team back to Los Alamos to work on the H-bomb . |
| 2 | But ground engineers reprogrammed IRAS to work around the fault well before the survey began . |
| 3 | In 1989 a BGS engineer was seconded for six months to the Ocean Drilling Program ( ODP ) in Texas to work on the development of a downhole vibropercussive corer . |
| 4 | SEOUL ( AFP ) — Pope John Paul II urged South Korea to work for the reunification of the Korean Peninsula peacefully and told the President , Roh Tae Woo , that the division symbolised suffering . |
| 5 | His father was an Ulsterman who emigrated to Scotland to work in the mines , where he married a local woman and presided over a strictly protestant household in which both parents were active members of the Orange Lodge . |
| 6 | Few of the mechanics know much about aeroplane engines , so Jack was asked by Fletcher to work on the engine . |
| 7 | The architect died in 1352 and his place was taken by Peter Parler from Cologne , who was invited to come from Schwäbisch-Gmünd to work on the cathedral . |
| 8 | In 1929 he went to Paris to work at the Pasteur Institute . |
| 9 | And so the board agreed to send Oliver to work for the undertaker . |
| 10 | The Rev Peris Williams and his wife Sheila are leaving St Hildeburgh 's at Hoylake to work in the parish of Holy Trinity in Blacon , Chester , in October . |
| 11 | Two years ago Siu-ming left her job as a solicitor in Bath to work for the women 's workshop and train as a cabinetmaker at Brunel Technical College , on block release . |
| 12 | Difficulties in negotiating wage rates led to the controversial recruitment of labourers from St Vincent to work during the harvest . |
| 13 | ‘ And tell Daak to work on the hole with the chainsword . ’ |
| 14 | Directly beneath the castle walls are the low , picturesque red roofs of the Italian quarter , where the masons and architects , artists and sculptors lodged when they first arrived from Italy to work for the kings of Bohemia . |
| 15 | In 1764 Thomas Paine was posted to Alford to work in the Excise Office which was housed in the old Windmill Inn in the market place . |
| 16 | When I 've been taking Paul to work in the morning they 've been giving me flashes and then if I , you know , flashed them back they have n't put their headlights on so I thought oh bugger yous ! |
| 17 | Mrs Pearce of Upper Haillng walked regularly to Cobham to work on the fields and Mrs Rogers of Upper Halling , mother of Jack and Rodney the local game keepers , would walk from her home to Cobham , there catch a bus to Gravesend , do all her shopping then bus back to Cobham and walk through the woods home with her baskets . |
| 18 | Thousands left Swaledale to work in the pits of Durham and the mills of Lancashire . |