Example sentences of "he work on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While there , Sir Flinders Petrie [ q.v. ] asked him to work on metal implements found during the excavations at Ur . |
| 2 | Liverpool Walton MP Peter Kilfoyle claims senior Whitehall sources have told him work on Fazakerley jail will be shelved for the foreseeable future when swingeing public spending cuts are made this autumn . |
| 3 | Walton MP Peter Kilfoyle claims senior Whitehall sources have told him work on Fazakerley Jail will be shelved for the foreseeable future when swingeing public spending cuts are made this autumn . |
| 4 | He worked on farms to pay for food and hitched a ride wherever he could . |
| 5 | More important , he worked on Counter-Terrorism programmes specialising in the Middle East . |
| 6 | He was an engineer and erm he he was he made co , he worked on conveyers and things and then he changed his occupation became a civil servant and he worked at the Admiralty down on Templefields until it closed about ten years , cos my husband has been retired about five years now . |
| 7 | From 1889 to 1906 he worked on railways in many other countries : the Central Argentine Railway appointed him district locomotive superintendent in 1894 , but in 1897 he was summarily dismissed for being late in returning from leave in England ; in 1900 he went as locomotive superintendent to the Cuban Central Railways , in 1902 to the Lagos Government Railway , and in 1904 to the Lima Railways in Peru . |
| 8 | During his time with the RAF , he worked on Rolls-Royce Merlin engines in support of the Berlin Airlift . |
| 9 | He worked on Gladstone , the future Edward VII , ( then aged six ) , Harriet Beecher Stowe , ( of ‘ Uncle Tom 's Cabin ’ fame ) , and the author Thackeray . |
| 10 | He worked on paper , and derived a sense of duty fulfilled as he proceeded through his Cabinet boxes . |
| 11 | He worked on numbers because he thought they controlled people 's lives . |
| 12 | Mr Moore , a worker on London Underground , said he worked on Sundays anyway . |
| 13 | In the north he worked on sugar and tobacco plantations , where the monthly wage was US$25 — less than half the legal minimum . |
| 14 | In 1939 he joined the Admiralty as an electrical engineer and went to HMS Vernon , the Navy 's torpedo and mining school at Portsmouth , where he worked on methods of defeating the German magnetic mine . |
| 15 | He works on Al-Liwa . ’ |
| 16 | What 's he working on Rog ? |