Example sentences of "to work [prep] [art] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Joanne , however , goes out to work during the day and is out nearly every night , while her mother looks after her eight-month-old daughter , so they spend little time together .
2 I used to work for a furniture and I always had the King 's Lynn I think was always easier
3 Helen Hards , produce section manager , worked at Bishops Stortford store for two years , left to work for a competitor and returned to JS at the new Apsley Mills branch .
4 Unless you are fortunate enough to work for a company that recognises this need , there are basically two options available for that initial promotion .
5 We are all to blame for voting for politicians who are unwilling to work for a solution that would acknowledge the rights and aspirations of both traditions in our community .
6 ‘ The thing is we 'll have to do something or we 'll find we 'll have to work for a living and we do n't want to do that . ’
7 The rest of us , without the cred and the bad dress sense , have to work for a living and generally we do n't regard the politics of envy as espoused by your paper as anything other than the ethics of the under-achiever and failure .
8 When it dawned on her that she would have to earn her own living , she made up her mind to work for a diploma and then teach , and do some book-illustrating while she cast about for her real métier .
9 Its immediate economic aim was to work for the reduction and eventual elimination of tariffs on most industrial goods among its members .
10 According to the family he rarely used it except on Sundays when he spent the afternoon and evening with an old chap who used to work for the firm and now lives in sheltered accommodation at Carbis Bay .
11 such permanent staff continue to work for the Council if they wish to do so ; and , where possible ,
12 According to Marx 's theory the many different units were willing to unite and contribute their labour to work for the despot because this appeared , not as working for him , but as working for ‘ the higher unity ’ , which , they wrongly believed , was the source of their continued existence .
13 The capitalist system implied a monopoly of these ‘ means of production ’ in the hands of the few , so that the workers had no alternative but to work for the capitalist and on his terms in order to survive .
14 Will the vendor continue to work for the company after it is sold ?
15 But may I add a special welcome to the unsung heroines and heroes who are not permanent staff , but give up their time — and in some cases their entire annual leave — to work for the Festival when the high pressure time arrives .
16 The son of a working-class family , Doisneau developed an early interest in art and was apprenticed as an engraver for a time before he ‘ escaped ’ to work for the sculptor and photographer , Andre Vigneau .
17 The V bomb , V bombers and the doodlebugs and er when he came home it was nineteen forty six I think or seven er , my fath er my mother had died and my father wanted to get away from the place we were in and we said oh well go ahead you know , we 'll easily get somewhere and of course we did n't and they put us in a Nissan hut , which we made absolutely beautiful , we did all sorts of things to it and had a lovely garden all around it and the people from the Council use to come around and say to us oh well you do n't need to be rehoused because you 've made this so very nice you see , anyway I then started to work for the Corporation and then there was the possibility of course
18 He 's learned a lot of skills and hopes to work as a gardener when he 's released .
19 She continued to work as a washerwoman until she was sixty-three , when she moved to Alton , Hampshire , to take care of a farmhouse .
20 Charles Brown , for example , was born in Northamptonshire in 1855 and had to go to work as a boy when his father , an agricultural labourer earning 12s. a week , was taken ill .
21 He used to work as a policeman and , on the few occasions when he was in extreme danger , automatically did whatever had to be done without any thought for his own safety .
22 He went on to work as a designer and translator for an Austrian publisher , where the manager , Otto Preminger ( later a celebrated film director ) introduced him to Max Reinhardt .
23 Teams of journalists , just about to go home around l0 p.m. , were told to work through the night as fresh editions were prepared for issue as late as S a.m .
24 William had not been happy at having to work through the night and at weekends and the tasks he had had to perform were not always pleasant .
25 Turning the other cheek is not an option here — until the children begin to work through the logic and consequences of two wrongs making a …
26 All you are going to need to work through the examples and exercises I will be giving you each month is access to either a metronome or drum machine .
27 In resisting rationalism he risks emphasising paradox to the point where it can seem sheerly irrational ; his insistence on the otherness of God and the sinfulness of man , and his fondness for some of the more arbitrary-seeming accounts of God in the stories of Abraham and Job , leave much too little place for a positive grasp of grace and mercy , goodness and love , though he does attempt to give them place ; his stress upon the centrality of the incarnation of God in Jesus commonly seems to reduce to the bare repetition of the claim that Jesus was also , paradoxically , God , but not fully to work through the implications and purpose of this identification of God with man ; his bitter attacks upon ‘ Christendom ’ in his latter years reveal rather too much of the solitary individualist who has little sense of the nature of community .
28 Now it er they said that this chap had g had gone to work after an illness and the boss said , Well er you 've been away six weeks , he said , There 's no job here for you now .
29 As many of the old river managers learned from first-hand experience of tinkering with their rivers , it is ultimately far more productive to work with a river than against it .
30 To work with a company where you have to teach the basic idea of the movement is an interesting challenge . ’
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