Example sentences of "they worked [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Perhaps the most important aspect of the project discussed here was the establishment of an honest critical approach in the staff and parents as they worked towards real partnership .
2 ‘ They lived for each other , they leaned on each other , they helped each other , they worked for each other .
3 They worked for 38 years at the Nuffield Press in Oxford .
4 The principal obstacle was Jackson ; as in Tokyo , Americans believed that Australian representatives were too radical in their political sympathies and that they worked against American policies .
5 To be honest , they worked in different ways , on different planes .
6 During the next half hour they worked in this way , and when the empty cases and the bed covers were at last placed on the cart , Aggie locked the door , then hesitated for a moment , wondering what to do with the key .
7 Gerald Vaughan , the health minister , simply reiterated in October 1981 that there is no clear evidence to link unemployment and ill health , and summarised the results of a DHSS study as showing that unemployment has different effects on different families ( to the chagrin of the researcher involved , who argued that his findings showed that the unemployed were more likely to suffer from physical , and psychological , ill health , unless they worked in hazardous occupations .
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