Example sentences of "to work [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dooley 's personal tragedy was so awful — he was so young and talented and he took the blow with such heroic , idiotic stoicism ( ‘ It 's my one regret that the ball did n't finish in the net ’ ) — that a substantial sum was raised for him and he later went to work for the club . |
| 2 | Pepita grew into a fine , beautiful woman and went to work for the banana shippers as her father had done until he retired at sixty-two . |
| 3 | After National Service and a year at Waterers Nurseries , Bagshot , now owned by Notcutts , Mr Dyter went to work for the Woodbridge company . |
| 4 | Even if they return to work for the same firm when their children go to school their seniority is lost . |
| 5 | With little option , Michael Lee went to work for the Madam . |
| 6 | The median years for return to work for the next cohort , who had their first birth between 1975 and 1979 , is estimated to be only 3.7 years . |
| 7 | He went to work for the Gas Light & Coke Company at Beckton in 1908 but he soon chafed at not being given the free rein to which he had become accustomed at Davis Bros . |
| 8 | He Saw The Light seven or eight years ago , and went to work for the Verfassung-schutz at Ehrenfeld . |
| 9 | Legal proceedings were opened against various mayors including the reformist mayor of Dresden , Wolfgang Berghofer , although Berghofer himself was not personally suspected of election manipulation ( in May he went to work for the office planning and construction company Häussler in Stuttgart ) . |
| 10 | It 'll change as you get older erm you wo n't necessarily just have that all the time we used to run these courses for students who had just come out of college and they were joining their company to work for the first first time and we used to do this and we used to find that many of the people who had just taken out the job for the first time had very very flat scores . |
| 11 | She found a spanner and set to work on the bike . |
| 12 | ‘ As far as we are aware there were no fish in distress when we returned to work on the Thursday morning and the canal was refilled with two feet of water . ’ |
| 13 | It 's no good going to work on the details unless you have this ‘ vision ’ . |
| 14 | Sam did not answer her prayers because he was not near enough to hear them , having been set to work on the floor above , sweeping up . |
| 15 | One dreads a future version in which Freud is set to work on the decision of Higgins and Pickering to set up together as two old bachelors . |
| 16 | ‘ The Electricity of France wishes to announce a power stoppage due to work on the main transformer . |
| 17 | Thus , a clause in your contract to the effect that your employment will ‘ automatically terminate ’ , if , for example , you fail to return to work on the due date after a period of leave , is likely to be regarded as an invalid attempt to ‘ contract out ’ of modern job security laws . |
| 18 | It was with his father Paul 's encouragement that Pascal eventually set to work on the project , which has been ‘ something of a labour of love over the last few years ’ . |
| 19 | Valerie Mitchell lived in the next road and travelled to work on the same bus as Paula . |
| 20 | Chola went for a third time to fetch some water from the river while Mina and Kāli set to work on the outside of the house . |
| 21 | ‘ You going to work on the beaches ? ’ |
| 22 | SCALPEL poised , the plastic surgeon sets to work on the patient 's face . |
| 23 | I turned it over to the studio and went to work on The Roots of Heaven , and apparently John Wayne took over after I left . |
| 24 | Hence gangs of navvies ( mainly Irish ) were set to work on the task of excavation and works ; they lived in mud huts , huts which would only offer the most primitive shelter from the elements . |
| 25 | And then we 'll see — if we can get rid of the muscle spasms , if the pain stops , then I 'll go to work on the muscles . ’ |
| 26 | When Will had disappeared from sight , Hari set to work on the slippers once more , they must be just so because Emily Grenfell was a good customer if a very exacting one . |
| 27 | I return to work on the spot with insights into what I am looking at and a clearer sense of intention . |
| 28 | The Indian presence in far flung outposts of the Empire , for example , from Malaysia to East Africa , can only be understood in this context , and it is important to note that a tradition of emigration from Jamaica had already developed in the nineteenth century , with 2,000 Jamaicans migrating to build railways in Panama , followed by well over 80,000 who went to work on the first attempt at constructing the Panama Canal in the 1880s . |
| 29 | I first became interested in the Cyclades in 1961 , after I went to work on the excavations at Nea Nikomedeia , the early Neolithic village in Macedonia . |
| 30 | He glanced around , then took a nail file from his pocket and set to work on the padlock . |