Example sentences of "he work on the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ My ole man got upset an' 'e told me ter get rid o' the bloody fing before 'e got 'ome from work ternight. 'E works on the trams , yer see , ’ the woman explained .
2 To start off Changez 's career in the grocery business , Anwar instructed him to work on the till , where you could get by with only one arm and half a brain .
3 Gould took the opportunity of taking Lear with him on this ornithological grand tour , and at some point managed to enlist him to work on the Birds of Europe with Mrs Gould .
4 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 .
5 I noted him working on the machinery while we were waiting to ascend .
6 Since the news had spread about him working on the case , the whole of the station had been in a state of excitement .
7 His reputation as a hard man — he had picked up a conviction for GBH — had won him work on the bouncer circuit and the title ‘ King of the Bouncers ’ .
8 He worked on the land until joining up in 1914 .
9 She had been surprised how hard he worked on the place .
10 He worked on the sets with a minature theatre stage in Los Angeles for nine months and , unusually for a set designer , he has attended every minute of rehearsals in London .
11 Though he worked on the new liturgy , he was only able to publish the English Litany in Henry 's reign .
12 He worked on the buses when he arrived , showed me a canopy in front of a hotel that he 'd brought down on his first solo drive .
13 In spite of these reservations , he worked on the rest of the poem very quickly and its last three sections were drafted before the end of that month .
14 He worked on the family farm before the First World War ; enlisted in the army and became a captain ; and after the war sank his savings into a clothing store , and lost them when it failed .
15 Then in the afternoon she played with Diana , or talked happily to Matthew while he worked on the farm .
16 He was in Canada in 1908–9 prospecting and surveying ; he worked on the Lagos Railway in West Africa 1910–11 , and in 1912 was employed as an engineer by the United Railways of Havana .
17 Acting as consultant to the Board of Overseas Trade , he worked on the British empire exhibition , Wembley , in 1924 , as a designer of friezes , decorations , and displays .
18 During World War I he worked on the western front in a field survey company and in interpretation of aerial photographs .
19 He worked on the Cromford canal linking the mill of Richard Arkwright [ q.v. ] in Bradford and the Derbyshire coalfield .
20 In 1917 Macmillan took the chair of history at the Johannesburg School of Mines ( later the University of the Witwatersrand ) where he worked on the radical Scots missionary Dr John Philip .
21 He then surveyed for a French company a number of railway lines in Italy and Switzerland , before returning to England , where he worked on the Birmingham and Wolverhampton Railway and the Kennet and Avon and Stourbridge canals .
22 Here he worked on the home ground of his old master , Adam Sedgwick , and began his long continued interest in Lower Palaeozoic stratigraphy .
23 Having to choose between being ‘ poor in Oxford or comfortable in Aber. ’ , he chose Aberystwyth , where he worked on the university magazine , published his first poems and stories , and dabbled in left-wing politics .
24 While at Cambridge he worked on the problem of the stability of Saturn 's rings .
25 There he worked on the unfashionable inorganic chemistry ; his science was always to be on the boundary of physics and chemistry .
26 He worked on the farm until four o'clock in the afternoon .
27 He worked on the staff of the Law Society from 1958 to 1964 , having first taken articles with Maxwell Batley & Co , in London .
28 And then suddenly we find the district auditor making comments about an environmental strategy , which I would have thought was , if he worked on the basis of the last one , rather outside his remit .
29 It 's here that he worked on the painstaking part by part design of the bike on a computer .
30 River rescue : Workman Anthony Robson , 33 , from Cleveland , was rescued from the River Tyne by marine police after falling from scaffolding as he worked on the Scotswood Bridge in Newcastle yesterday .
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