Example sentences of "work [v-ing] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time ten battalions of Territorials were set to work building a new broad-gauge railway to Revigny . |
| 2 | The 1970s saw some highly productive ‘ urban ’ work using a Weberian perspective , Pahl providing the main stimulus for this approach . |
| 3 | An Inquiry headed by an Irish High Court Judge , Mr Justice Declan Costello , firmly placed the responsibility for this on two corporations , Total and Gulf , who deliberately decided not to carry out necessary repair work costing a mere £130,000 because they intended to sell the tanker . |
| 4 | An Inquiry headed by an Irish High Court Judge , Mr Justice Declan Costello firmly placed the responsibility for this on two corporations , Total and Gulf , ‘ who deliberately decided not to carry out necessary repair work costing a mere £130,000 because they intended to sell the tanker' ( The Observer 27.7.80 : 2 ) . |
| 5 | This same recipe provides an instructive example of the way in which Dr de Pomiane thinks we should go to work improving a primitive dish to our own taste while preserving its character intact . |
| 6 | Hodgkin 's painting is typical of his mature , highly abstract work having a strong , surrounding ‘ frame ’ of red paint and an ‘ interior ’ formed out of bright colours applied in a highly direct manner . |
| 7 | They were fishing people and were obviously hard at work fashioning a new canoe . |
| 8 | The London Daily Telegraph of 25 August 1887 , under the heading " A Sailors ' Association " chose to deal at length with the birth of the union , praising its objects , but predicting its early demise : " The North Country " , the article read , " was always the nursery of the famous and best seamen and it is here that we find Jack hard at work originating a fine scheme . |
| 9 | Presumably , there are psychological needs at work influencing a young person to look for suitable father figures of which there are many in sport . |
| 10 | A reasonable employer would not , for example , be entitled to instruct a man who has just resumed work following a major heart attack to undertake immediately a long and arduous period of foreign travel . |