Example sentences of "worked [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While commentators have dismissed her as a serious contender , those who worked intimately with the Prince and watched Mountbatten 's machinations at first-hand were convinced that marriage between Prince Charles and Amanda Knatchbull was a virtual certainty . |
| 2 | As the Potato Marketing Board has for many years worked successfully for the benefit of processors , consumers and producers , does he agree that any proposals to scrap the PMB should be strongly resisted ? |
| 3 | They then worked slowly through the chronology , all the parties sitting informally round a small table ; so informal , in the mythology , that the subsequent TV docudrama put Meese in a startling pink-and-lavender tracksuit , drinking coffee from a mug . |
| 4 | Skipper worked nicely on the flat , so John built us a six inch cross pole to trot over . |
| 5 | The strike had ended soon after he had commenced this venture so he was again at work during the day , as a machinist , but after getting home at 6 p.m. and hastily eating a meal , he went into his ( or should I say , the communal ) bedroom , and worked long into the night . |
| 6 | For instance , we raised enough money for the materials to build a decent house for a single mother who was living in a hut made of cardboard and we all worked together on the construction . |
| 7 | The University Grants Committee and the research councils worked together on the selection job . |
| 8 | The 54-year-old actress admits her relationship began when they worked together on the movie ‘ Wonderful Life ’ in 1963 . |
| 9 | As Hickson and Jacques worked together during the war , their mutual regard and close co-operation under adverse wartime conditions grew into a genuine partnership through which the providing bodies came to recognise their inter-dependence . |
| 10 | The couple , who worked together in the film Far and Away , are billed as Tinseltown 's most romantic couple . |
| 11 | His sums worked better with the star out of the way . |
| 12 | Together they worked swiftly through the rest of the queue until at last the flow stopped and the little shop was empty . |
| 13 | Nicola worked backwards on the bed until she was resting against the wall ; she pulled her knees up and clasped them . |
| 14 | Feeling depressed they worked away for the rest of the night . |
| 15 | Specifically , that worked best on the song War , where the melody is played over an E riff and then it 's played over a B riff and then over an A , but the melody of the verse never uses a third and so you do n't know whether it 's phrygian or phrygian dominant . |
| 16 | Whilst James worked selflessly for the party , sending forth a barrage of witty and caustic editorials , particularly on the issue of Chaguaramas . |
| 17 | He also worked elsewhere in the neighbourhood , notably at Radley Hall , Berkshire ( 1721–5 ) , and as a contractor at Blenheim Palace ( 1720–39 ) , while other aspects of his business were quarry-working and the production of funerary monuments . |
| 18 | Carrie worked unceasingly behind the counter , rushing off upstairs often during the afternoons to tend to Rachel once Annie McCafferty had left . |
| 19 | ‘ He worked harder on the show than anyone else , steering many of the writers he brought into Doctor Who . |
| 20 | At the start of the crisis , an emergency centre was set-up at the headquarters of Aberconwy Borough Council , where many staff worked non-stop through the night to cope with the disaster . |
| 21 | It has to be emphasised that the committee worked always in the shadow of the law : Section 132 of the Public Health Act 1875 had said that any expenses incurred by a local authority in maintaining in a hospital a patient who is not a pauper , should be deemed to be a debt due from such patient to the local authority , and could be recovered from him at any time within six months after his discharge from the hospital . |
| 22 | I worked directly under the Manager , Signor Cavatorta , who was very able and extremely diplomatic with his customers , and I learnt how indifferent and merciless all banks are towards any customer who has the misfortune to be in debt : that was more or less all . |
| 23 | They worked outward from the city to a point not far south of the Souk al-Gadira and then returned , thus making two sweeps of the river bank . |
| 24 | He also worked extensively amid the squalor of Britain 's inner cities and in remoter areas of Scotland , including the island crofting community of St Kilda . |
| 25 | Darwin worked extensively on the relationship between insects and the flowers they fertilize ; his book On the Various Contrivances by which British and Foreign Orchids are Fertilized by Insects appeared in 1862 , and the subject was generalized in Herman Müller 's The Fertilization of Flowers ( translated 1883 ) . |
| 26 | His unpublished contributions to the Leipzig Classical Society included scholarly studies in other Greek fields , such as the Aristotelian corpus , while at Leipzig he also worked extensively on the philosopher Democritus . |
| 27 | Andy worked mainly in the shop , but also had a chance to play with the Hunts as well as with other famous players of the 1970s such as Doug McLelland , John Garner and Peter Dawson . |
| 28 | Although a private man and somewhat of a loner , he worked tirelessly for the department both in a teaching and administrative capacity . |
| 29 | With the chairman , David Lindsay , Earl of Crawford and Balcarres [ q.v. ] , he worked tirelessly for the library at a critical period in its history . |
| 30 | All the young medics worked tirelessly in the blister bunker . |