Example sentences of "to work [adv] at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This objection can easily be overcome by allowing two students to work together at the terminal — a method which appears to facilitate learning .
2 He believed , and she had once heard him say , that eventually she would , naturally , come round to his way of thinking , and she had vowed to work harder at the study of English literature in order to learn enough words to refute him once and for all .
3 Meanwhile back in Wales , Philip Burton had taken the plunge , moved to Cardiff and gone to work full-time at the BBC as a producer .
4 One hacker 's wife remarked : ‘ The whole thing started when he began to work late at the office , and I began to think that there was another woman .
5 ‘ Let's have a picnic , ’ she said , telling herself that next week she would make a real effort to work again at the practice of virtue .
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