Example sentences of "and work on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Haig was made an earl in 1919 and after the war devoted much of his time to organizing the British Legion and to work on behalf of disabled ex-servicemen . |
| 2 | The house was sold off and I ended up inheriting 12,000 dollars , so I went straight out and bought an AG 440 Ampex professional four track machine and took it up to my father 's coffee plant , and every night when he left I would drive up and work on Stevie 's and my songs . |
| 3 | D. At the time when the population started to increase rapidly , most people lived in small villages and worked on farms . |
| 4 | Often , as many as half the inhabitants of a Victorian market town were craftsmen who both lived and worked on premises which were sited as near to the market place as possible . |
| 5 | At this time he also impressed fifty carpenters for service in Brittany , and worked on Portchester Castle , Hampshire . |
| 6 | This untypically flashy Icelander , who has lived most of his life in Las Vegas , and worked on Mr Bush 's election campaign , has recently been in charge of polishing the images of Frank Sinatra and Donald Trump , the New York city real estate person . |
| 7 | She has had a hit song with Roberta Flack and worked on material for , among others , Marvin Hamlisch and Spencer Jones . |
| 8 | ‘ I was paid £3 10s a week , and worked on Saturday mornings , ’ he said as he bowed out of Linlithgow Branch for the last time . |
| 9 | Thorough as ever , Whitaker had already commissioned and worked on scripts by Bill Strutton and Glyn Jones , and penned one himself about the Crusades . |
| 10 | Devising and working on projects is one of the most creative ways of managing people for profit . |
| 11 | The City and the County Councils have looked very seriously at the erm traffic study that the Oxford Preservation Trust commissioned , and they are working on it and working on ways of implementing it within the City centre . |
| 12 | Linder , previously famous for designing Magazine album sleeves and working on montage projects with Sounds writer Jon Savage , slowly wrenched the group away from the ideas of Kadmon . |
| 13 | but of course erm as a sort of public to the er , er a gesture to the public erm but one stage during the war when things were getting a bit grim on the war front , it was decided that erm , we should work extra hours as erm , to show that we were pulling our weight , so we used to , instead of starting at nine o'clock until erm half past five , and working on Saturdays as well of course , erm , we had to start at half past eight and finish at six and it was a bit of a fiasco really because nobody erm , you know , well the end of the half past five you were pretty well tired out so erm the rest of the time |
| 14 | I 'd like to go on living and working on Skomer but as my son is four years old I 'll soon be facing a dilemma over the need for his education and I might have no choice but to rethink our future . ’ |
| 15 | The works of no jurist other than Scaevola give even a hint that the distinction had become unimportant , and works on trusts continued to be written separately from those on the civil law of succession . |
| 16 | The role of the Corporation as art patron is one of the exhibition 's themes , and works on show include paintings acquired by Alderman John Boydell ( a print publisher in his own right ) in the late eighteenth century ; a selection of nineteenth century paintings from the donation made by Charles Gassiot in 1902 ; Landseer 's ‘ The First Leap ’ ( 1829 ) ; Alma-Tadema 's ‘ The Wine Shop ’ ( 1873 ) ; and works by Holman Hunt , Dyce , Lord Leighton , Millais and Rossetti . |
| 17 | There was a shelf of art books , another of guides , Italian history and works on wine and Tuscan cooking . |
| 18 | Now , with the opening last month of thirty-nine rooms on the second floor of the Cour Carree , for French paintings and works on paper from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , the restructuring of the museum has entered a new phase more directly concerned with the collections themselves . |
| 19 | This year sixty-four dealers ( the same number as last year ) including many of the top names in pictures and works on paper will be exhibiting , showing a range of works from Old Masters to contemporary . |
| 20 | Her new sculpture and works on paper are at Borgenicht until the 13th . |
| 21 | ( to 17 April ) , the retrospective of paintings and works on paper by Victor Willing at Karsten Schubert and Richard Salmon ( to 17 April ) , the , new sculptures by John Davies at Marlborough ( to 30 April ) and William MacIlraith 's paintings at Connaught Brown ( to 20 April ) . |
| 22 | Statistical Method : The 1975 base US$ figure for each artist in the index is the average price of the central 80% of all paintings and works on paper by that artist sold at auction in 1974–1976 , as reported in Art Sales Index . |
| 23 | Rooney 's large canvasses and works on paper are always memorable and , on reflection , I see his work as part of an English tradition of individual ‘ eccentricity ’ which stretches from Blake to Stanley Spencer , Paul Nash and Carel Weight . |
| 24 | Exhibition space was not needed the library eschews blockbusters , and its permanent collection of books , manuscripts and works on paper can not be exposed to light too often . |
| 25 | The acquisitions cover a four-year period until 1991 and fall into three categories : paintings and works on paper , including graphics , sculpture and crafts . |
| 26 | The gallery above the ramp is divided into five distinct spaces for the Impressionist paintings inspired by Renoir and dating from after 1940 , the ‘ vache ’ paintings which occupied the artist briefly in 1948 and were the subject of a recent reassessment by Bernard Blistene , Director of the Musées de Marseilles , the rock or stone paintings , an important selection of gouaches and works on paper , and Magritte 's painted bottles and other objects . |
| 27 | Mr Powell created LACMA 's departments of Photography and of Ancient & Islamic Art , but has no plans to enlarge the National Gallery 's collections beyond Western painting , sculpture and works on paper since the Renaissance . |
| 28 | The collection 's great strength was its concentration on drawings and works on paper , both Cubist and otherwise , by Cooper 's favoured masters . |
| 29 | That increase applies to the mainstream of Matisse oil paintings and works on paper . |
| 30 | Even so , at 420% , the increase is appreciably better than for oils and works on paper . |