Example sentences of "had to work [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evening courses were arranged on all sorts of subjects , which we as shift workers were unfortunately not able to take advantage of fully , as we had to work during the evenings . |
| 2 | We had to work with the gallery festooned in paper . ’ |
| 3 | As the band 's agent in this case , I had to work with the record company to circumvent the rigid Radio I Top 40 format . |
| 4 | Many had to work for a year under the threat of the axe and even those who survived continue to live in a climate of insecurity , not knowing when the next rationalisation programme is likely to be introduced . |
| 5 | So although his neighbours opposite occupied houses with gardens , his side of the street had to work for a living : he would have been used to seeing the flame fanned by the bellows of the blacksmith , the steam rising from the sweating horses in the carrier , s stables , and — we may hope — a line of customers waiting to be served in his little shop . |
| 6 | The working-class wives of early eighteenth-century London earned from charring , laundry , nursing , making and mending clothes , hawking , silk-winding and in the catering and victualling services : The great majority of women were unable to work in male trades and , since nearly three quarters of women wanted to or had to work for a living , they necessarily competed intensely for the work which was left , much of it of a casual nature and none of it organised by gilds and livery companies . |
| 7 | But I knew that it would be difficult to persuade Jimbo that he had to work at the exercises : yet if the treatment were to succeed , it had to be him — Jimbo himself — who , in the end , would reopen the pathway of nerves between brain and muscle . |
| 8 | Yeah , folk here just never been out since New Year , then she had to work at the hospital Tuesday , well Bradley said if you do n't feel fit enough phone up and we 'll send a nurse to you I said you 're bloody mental , you ask for everything you get , I said instead of phoning the nurse in , ah but I think Alison told me they both need a good , good bloody feed they do |
| 9 | To own a boarding house required capital in the first instance and to maintain the boarding house as a business venture in the early years the husband had to work as a taxi driver or have a part-time job during the winter . |
| 10 | Then , not more than a week later , I was coming down the back corridor from the kitchen when Miss Kenton came out of her parlour and uttered a statement she had clearly been rehearsing ; this was something to the effect that although she felt most uncomfortable drawing my attention to errors made by my staff , she and I had to work as a team , and she hoped I would not feel inhibited to do similarly should I notice errors made by female staff . |
| 11 | The only problem with the job was that I had to work on a lot of Saturdays , which naturally interfered with my athletics , though the company were quite generous in giving me time off . |
| 12 | You presumably had to work on the orchestra section by section . |
| 13 | The next few gybes were the first I had ever done with speed all the way through the turn , in fact , it happened so quickly that I could n't change the rig fast enough — so then I had to work on the rig change . |
| 14 | One had to work on the opposition 's weaknesses . |
| 15 | That 's another story , where they were , and if you 're interested , downstairs there 's a very good map that shows you superimposed on a modern map of Oxford where they were , but they very much affected citizens in the St Aldate 's , because every citizen , and every scholar who was still in the university , between the ages of 16 and 60 had to work on the fortifications at least one day a week , or pay a shilling fine . |
| 16 | Both started young and had to work through a range of personal problems and private defeats . |
| 17 | We often had to work through the night to get the stage ready in time , but it was exciting to be in one of the Queen 's palaces at Christmas . |
| 18 | Peasants were enticed away from subsistence agriculture because of the potential profits and , in order to buy the necessary equipment and fertilisers and to sell the final produce , they had to work through the market . |
| 19 | The Land Commission had to work within the framework of the planning system . |
| 20 | He had to work in the knowledge that he could be reported to the Inquisition at any time , when his writings would become the subject of serious scrutiny . |
| 21 | Before they gave me a bike I had to earn it , I had to work in the garden . |