Example sentences of "work [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the centuries where children were treated like Oliver Twist and worse ; where children were beaten , half-starved , and put to work for sixteen hours a day and more ; it is not surprising that horses were treated no better . |
| 2 | Samuel Oldknow was generally regarded as a humane employer , but even he expected his apprentices to work for thirteen hours . |
| 3 | We had one free day each week — any one of our choice — and we could also elect to work for twelve days consecutively and then have two days off . |
| 4 | After a while , the lad turned up back at the farm and offered to work for two shillings and pay his own insurance stamp . |
| 5 | She had n't been to work for two nights . |
| 6 | You do n't mention him , except to say that he was a biologist and that he went to England to work for two years at the chemical weapons experimental establishment at Porton Down . |
| 7 | I went back to work for two days a week in December when Isha was six months old . |
| 8 | Yes , yes , he 's organised it Chris has had to go to work for two days this week . |
| 9 | If you can not find a language helper who only wants to work for one hour a day , try hiring someone to do gardening or housework for you on a more fulltime basis and then use that person also as a language helper until you reach the stage where you can cope with a fulltime language helper . |
| 10 | Here your training intensity is such that you are pushed to work for one minute , let alone the 20 required for aerobic training ! |
| 11 | It 's off to work for 16 pupils of Kilton Thorpe Special School at Brotton , who are going all over Cleveland gaining work experience in a variety of jobs ranging from police work , superstore and shop workers , dog handling to children 's nurseries . |
| 12 | They did not keep him long , however , and this time he made off with a companion and even had the nerve to work for three months on a French farm before starting a marathon trek across the entire length of France . |
| 13 | They are going to have to say : ‘ Look fellas , we do n't want you to work for three months . |
| 14 | The teacher explains that he will be asking the class to work as one group . |
| 15 | The prosecutors who brought the case to court had to work through eight TONS of paperwork . |
| 16 | And , just as it is unnatural to spend all one 's time hopping on one leg , going about with one eye permanently closed or trying to work with one hand tied behind the back , it is unnatural to be so unbalanced . |
| 17 | It 's very impressive — you can even load the server software in a Desqview or Windows window and multi-task the whole thing , if you fancy trying to work with two machines at once . |
| 18 | London University of Education assigned 60 PGCE Art and Design Students to work with 15 Architects from the Camden Branch , on a multidisciplinary Workshop day in June . |
| 19 | ‘ So , back to work in two weeks or so and then where ? ’ he continued in the same quiet voice . |
| 20 | Okay what I 'd like to do is get you to work in three syndicates looking at body language , voice tone , words , proximity , attitude , voice volume but what we 'd like to do is actually work in a syndicate that is out of style , out of keeping in your normal style . |
| 21 | Let's say then , I just , I used to have to work on eleven appointments a week because if I had eleven appointments a week , two people would perhaps blow me out , change their minds , two people would rearrange , two people would say no thank you , and another two would say , yes , but I need to do it next month , which might leave me with two sales . |
| 22 | While faith-healing tends to work on one part of the body , Reiki treats the whole system . ’ |
| 23 | DB2 Version 3 will enable users to work on one partition of a table space or index space without locking the other partitions . |
| 24 | In mainland Europe the spacing between tracks and reversible signalling enables engineers to work on one track in complete safety while traffic continues to pass on the other . |
| 25 | We began to work on two hander pieces — she took the pictures , I wrote the words . |
| 26 | CENGIZ ALTUN : A journalist , he was shot dead on his way to work on 24 February 1992 , shortly after publishing an article stating that security forces had threatened to kill him ; |
| 27 | my Lord erm what we 're saying is that certain restrictions are void , if I can , if I can just work through one example , if the erm |
| 28 | And that night steals some milk and er sure enough it did come and then when the witch woken up in the morning and found out that somebody had been milking the cow she said er whoever stealing the milk will never work for six month . |
| 29 | He did n't work for four months . |
| 30 | It would work for one part but the next part needed another sound to it , so maybe we 'd use the Paul Reed Smith for the second half of the solo . |