Example sentences of "work [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think had we managed to stick it together a bit longer , all fifty of us , and just prove to the management that we were n't gon na be starved back to work which seemed to be the way they wanted us to go back , you know because the board had you know escalated , you know I think had we managed to stick it together , certainly the result would 've been different . |
| 2 | For a market economy to work it depends on the existence of certain values . |
| 3 | Yes , she does n't know how to work it to begin with but she |
| 4 | For a new system to work it needs to be flexible and to fit in with your own personal requirements . |
| 5 | If it 's to work it has to be part of a general strategy for traffic in an area not on one street at a time . |
| 6 | If they were working they 'd be going to discos , but because they ca n't work they stay at home , and because they 're girls they do the housework , though they feel they are doing somebody else 's housework . |
| 7 | so a child could work for an and do any work they want to in that hour so we 're doing a dual role , we 're holding a detention there |
| 8 | Does he work he work at Hunters on their |
| 9 | Everyone who worked there seemed to be a Kenny . |
| 10 | I mean they were n't badly Me father at th er at the beginning of the war he worked he worked at the Grove pit , down the mine at the Grove and he used to be on afternoons . |
| 11 | Well she 's worked she works for a tour operator , she worked for a |
| 12 | After hours of brain searching work I arrived at a formula that produced some sensible — but not accurate figures . |
| 13 | In a voluntary way a voluntary capacity working I mean in in this sense in my there is a sense of responsibility and I find that good and challenging which is perhaps one of the reasons why I like doing these courses because you you er a certain amount of stress and responsibility is is . |
| 14 | Last week the Wagner Development Group put to rest that work which began with the 1988 Wagner report with the fourth and last conference jointly organised by NISW and Community Care ( News , page 4 ) , and the coincidental publication of the third Wagner volume Positive Answers ( HMSO , £6.50 ) . |
| 15 | Even work which concentrates on the social flexibility of gender relations , often ends up making biological determinants the core of its project . |
| 16 | Charles II took a personal interest it , matters relating to mining and it is reported that he united the old Mines Royal and the Soc. of Mineral & Battery Works which had for so long run as separate enterprises . |
| 17 | The streets ran in a regular criss-cross pattern sloping up from the Railway Works which lay behind a high camouflaged wall . |
| 18 | ‘ Have you finished all that work you brought with you ? ’ |
| 19 | Before I were yeah , she was on , on war work you see on the hand grenades , that was on the , on the ground floor , of course there were a lot of old cottages er the one at the end , and erm there was something about those oh when , when we did erm er when we did erm locks for the erm hotels there were called , they used to say no they used , there would be about a hundred keys for the guests who clocked in for the er for the hotel and they would each be given a key to the same lock you see , and they used to call those keys to pass , sometimes there was more than a hundred keys to one lock but er wait for the bell or |
| 20 | The level of case work we deal with continues to rise . |
| 21 | From the direct comparison of housework with factory work we move to an aspect of work which many studies agree has possibly the strongest influence on a worker 's satisfaction . |
| 22 | in order to get a better estimate of how accurately the clock works we need to be able to study it for much longer periods of time . |
| 23 | Once the pumps in the mines stop working they fill with water , which will dissolve exposed minerals like zinc and cadmium . |
| 24 | While these miners are working they buy in the shops and that keeps others in work . |
| 25 | In both , ICI employs world-scale state-of-the-art technology , offers a competitive range of products and is recognized for the application development work it undertakes in co-operation with customers . |
| 26 | Full of new hope that maybe our rethink might be working he struck into what appeared a solid fish , although this was a little misleading as the cat had picked up a little weed and once freed she quickly surrendered . |
| 27 | so er is a waste of space so and he works he works for so er that 's stuff it |
| 28 | Hetty , however , attributed the early deaths of her children to the lead works he maintained on the premises . |
| 29 | But it works it works by money does n't it ? |