Example sentences of "work [prep] three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They are going to have to say : ‘ Look fellas , we do n't want you to work for three months . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Layton used to go to Leonard 's flat each morning where they would work for three hours or so , though sometimes letting the work run on through the afternoons . |
| 5 | Alan himself is off on his travels again later this month , when he will work with three orchestras in Romania . |
| 6 | The 73-year-old spinster , who worked for three generations of the same family for 56 years , was dragged 30 yards before falling under the giant wheels . |
| 7 | ‘ I worked for three years in the Collector of Taxes department , which was really just shuffling papers and asking for money . |
| 8 | He worked for three years with Sir Samuel Canning [ q.v. ] , |
| 9 | He then worked for three years for Alexander Cowan & Co. at Musselburgh Paper Mills . |
| 10 | I worked for three years as a school counsellor in South Brompton , and the majority of the children who came my way were children who had some degree of behavioural difficulty or emotional disturbance . |
| 11 | Previously , she worked for three months on a Youth Training Scheme after leaving Castlehead High School . |
| 12 | One of the most popular forms of transport in London at that time was the omnibus drawn by a pair of horses — worked for three hours a day , with a rest every half-mile — which , by 1890 , had become double-deckers with an outside staircase at the back , and which held up to twenty-six passengers . |
| 13 | ‘ It gave her quite a shock , ’ said Bob Murray , managing director of the International Freight firm in Small Heath , Birmingham , where Carolyn has worked for three years . |
| 14 | Jo emphasised the need for good movement and footwork on the court and acknowledged the work of her fitness advisor , Len Heppel , with whom she has worked for three years . |
| 15 | ‘ Experts worked for three days to repair the ceiling . |
| 16 | A Canadian , Chris Hampson has worked on three continents in his ICI career . |
| 17 | He would rise early , make himself tea on his landlady 's stove , work for three hours with a pause for breakfast , then go out to walk in Regent 's Park , unless it was raining . |
| 18 | It is contract it 's a monthly contract you work for three weeks for one pound sixteen shillings and at the end of the month they count all the slates you 've done during the month . |
| 19 | Or ten men working for three hours , that still gives you thirty men hours . |
| 20 | The engineering factory in Hertfordshire who conned their staff into working for three weeks without pay before finally going into receivership . |
| 21 | Use the same method of working for three numbers . |
| 22 | If he had been working for three days and three nights then it was in the suit he was wearing now , and his shoes had mud on them , and Erlich did n't think Ruane would be impressed . |
| 23 | Well you 're not working for three days , you 've got three days off ! |
| 24 | this chap was here last week he bought this pine table up , got his key , and he 'd been working for three years in Norway |
| 25 | In London I work through three agencies — you note that I say that I work through — I do n't know what you guys get in Rome , but here it is through … that 's most of the time … ’ |
| 26 | We live and work with three priests from an order known as The Sacred Heart Fathers . |
| 27 | I was working with three men at a warehouse near the airport . |
| 28 | So , her mother started working from three patterns — one each for the bodice , skirt and train ! |
| 29 | You 'll be working in three dimensions , in the air , and on the ground . |
| 30 | The underground complex had been built in summer , the construction teams working in three shifts round the dock . |