Example sentences of "work [vb past] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1676 an arrangement was made with the widow of William Gape , a past Master of the Company , for plants to be transferred from her Westminster garden to Chelsea and work began on the building of a brick wall around the property . |
| 2 | Work began on the bridge in 1836 , with Brunel himself in charge , but money ran out after four years and the project was abandoned . |
| 3 | No sooner had this year 's tournament finished , than work began on the £10m octagonal shaped 14,000 seater stadium , which will have giant palm trees growing through the stairways to help maintain the distinctive flavour of South Florida . |
| 4 | Work began on the construction of the school in December and the first brick has already been laid . |
| 5 | In the last days of August demolition began work began on the house . |
| 6 | So almost overnight , Aarau decided on a major expansion scheme , and work began on the Laurenzenvorstadt . |
| 7 | After Wolsey 's surrender of Hampton Court to the king in 1525 , work began on the Cardinal 's College ( now Christ Church ) in Oxford , where Redman was joint master with John Lebons or Lubbyns and the carpenter Humphrey Coke . |
| 8 | Much work was done in the 1790s at the Royal Naval Hospital , Greenwich , and in 1810 work began on the pediment there , which was forty feet long , designed by Benjamin West [ q.v. ] and Joseph Panzetta , and made in Coade stone . |
| 9 | In 1886 , however , work began on the long-delayed City and Southwark subway , the beginning of a line that became the City and South London Railway , the world 's first underground electric railway . |
| 10 | On that date work began on the conversion of the existing manual Kardex file , containing the records of the Library 's periodicals holdings , into machine-readable format . |
| 11 | Since 1979 , when construction work began on the Colinton Bypass , the provision of an outer city bypass for Edinburgh by 1990 has been a key element of Lothian Regional Council 's transportation policy . |
| 12 | The LAN option was chosen , and work began on the Computing Upgrade Project , financed by a special grant from DAFS , in 1989 . |
| 13 | In 1954 work began on the deserted Das Island to build a base for personnel working on a mobile drilling platform in the Arabian Gulf . |
| 14 | The attacks started after building work began on the biggest improvement scheme carried out at the centre since it first opened in 1982 . |
| 15 | Work began on the reorganisation in August last year and electricians have begun preparing for the computer terminals . |
| 16 | There are two reasons : firstly , in the summer of 1990 major work started on the church which could restore it to something like its original form ; this would make it interesting , because pilgrim churches are rare . |
| 17 | Work started on the car eight years ago , just months after the original Sierra went on sale . |
| 18 | Work started on the resurvey of the Newbiggin ( 10 ) 1:50 000 sheet as the first phase of the Tyne-Alston project to revise the geological map of the Northumberland Basin . |
| 19 | After a series of delays , more discussion groups and a conference in Manchester , work started on the actual dummy . |
| 20 | Work started on the former gunnery school in April 1991 . |
| 21 | Before work started on the Gyle project the Wimpey team identified the health and safety risk factors and then prepared a thorough safety plan detailing the company 's proposed safety management and working practices . |
| 22 | ‘ Ever since work started on the re-design of the front area we have been living in fear that we will come back on Monday morning and they will have put bricks through the windows again . ’ |
| 23 | And this week work started on the Tees Barrage which will transform the river . |
| 24 | Work recommenced on the processing of outstanding acquisitions of maps from overseas territories , particularly the collections of sheets from Middle Eastern and east European countries , in which particular interest has been shown . |
| 25 | strict , straight to the point , the work went on the blackboard , you were given so long to do it , close your book and if you did n't do it you never saw the teacher , but you felt his cane on your knuckles and he knew you were n't doing your work , so you did it . |
| 26 | The folder containing Rory 's work lay on the seat by my side ; I lifted the file onto my lap , concealing a bulge . |
| 27 | Work continued on the construction of the Mitcham route and the Company notified the Board of Trade that Mitcham Light Railways and part of Tramway No. 11 was ready for inspection on 11 May . |
| 28 | Work continued on the Falkirk ( 31E ) and Livingston ( 32W ) sheets in those parts of the sheet areas not covered by DOE funded projects . |
| 29 | Work continued on the second phase of the project commissioned by ODA to investigate the engineering geological characteristics of tropical red-clay soils . |
| 30 | In the geological editorial programme in GRDC , work continued on the editing of two 1:1 000 000 geological maps and two 1:250 000 geological maps and reports . |