Example sentences of "'s work [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are in chaos here until we get all Angela 's work redistributed , we 're all of us doing five things at once . |
| 2 | Despite these dramatic improvements , not surprisingly Mrs Gould 's work falls well short of the plates by Lear . |
| 3 | Every question and answer interaction in the classroom , or observation by the teacher of a pupil 's work constitutes an assessment . |
| 4 | Labov 's work to redeem , as it were , underprivileged speech also entailed a revealing critique of more privileged forms . |
| 5 | Johnson 's work merits this special position both because it has been influential in this country — Bankowski and Mungham ( 1976 ) use it , for example , and it routinely appears on ‘ English Legal System ’ booklists — and also because he explicitly takes issue with ideologically determined empiricist and common sense definitions of professionals in terms of the ‘ traits ’ which they possess . |
| 6 | The different nature of a boatman 's work compared to that of a fisherman led to different forms of inheritance and to a contrasting family structure . |
| 7 | Men who had been unsuccessful in the search for a day 's work drifted into the dining rooms to pass the time away and many sat there on the bench seats , grateful for the warmth and a friendly chat . |
| 8 | ‘ And how is the great man 's work proceeding ? ’ |
| 9 | Charles Darwin 's work forced his generation and the generations since to restructure the conventional ways in which they thought about humanity 's role in the world . |
| 10 | The theme of discretion has been a particular concern of the author 's work cited above . |
| 11 | A Westminster Select Committee of MPs which scrutinises the Ombudsman 's work questioned Mrs McIvor at Parliament Buildings , Stormont , on her annual report for 1992 . |
| 12 | McClellan 's work furnishes basic formulae for calculations of this kind . |
| 13 | Although many aspects of Darwin 's work reflect practical concerns , his overall vision is very much a product of the Romantic era , with its emphasis on the unity of Nature and the power of natural forces to reshape the world . |
| 14 | Under the influence of Cézanne , Picasso 's work becomes once again more purely painterly , and these figures , though still simple and often clumsy and awkward in appearance , never give the impression , as did so many of the paintings of the Negroid phase , of being the pictorial counterparts of wooden sculptures . |
| 15 | Because in 1982 , when I was nine years old , my father 's work brought us to North Cornwall , where the landscapes are among the most magical on Earth and the legend of King Arthur still burns . |
| 16 | While the system of instruction was pondered upon further , Hardwick 's work continued apace . |
| 17 | The exhibition of women 's work continued to tour the country and a research project into the working patterns of women architects is being conducted by the York Institute on the group 's behalf . |
| 18 | Bagehot 's work continued to be regarded as an authoritative work long after the Constitution had undergone fundamental change . |
| 19 | Kelman 's work forms part of a flowering of talent which has come about in the urban Scotland of the last few years . |
| 20 | It will be argued that Leapor 's work contributes to a fairly broad movement among labouring class poets to provide an accurate account of work and social conditions in their time . |
| 21 | Rego 's work threatens because it challenges the cosy myths of childhood , Christopher Steven 's ‘ Giant ’ ( 1988 ) exemplifies the ways in which the threat of ‘ The boy is the father of the man ’ emerges . |
| 22 | The civilian staff put out the empty milk bottles and leave the camp , another day 's work done , and the regimental police staff in the guardroom check to see that all the recruits have booked in and that all the visitors have been booked out . |
| 23 | And if ever a man sleeps well after a day 's work done well that man is , and I pray God give him rest , Donald Templeton ! ’ |
| 24 | In the manor of Alciston , the bailiff of Battle Abbey had to raise wages by up to 75 percent to get the year 's work done by the survivors . |
| 25 | He and Bob were rushing to get a whole day 's work done before lunchtime , in order to get away for poor old Eddy 's funeral in the afternoon , when a woman called Samantha Lightbody rang from the BBC . |
| 26 | But he was careful not to think , because some corner of his mind knew that that way lay a kind of death , of Hal in Chester , quite certainly notified , or soon to be notified , by Hotspur or another , of the long day 's work done at Homildon Hill six days ago . |
| 27 | Klein 's work developed through several stages , and the article considered here is representative of her later work ( Greenberg and Mitchell 1983 : . |
| 28 | Her father 's work took him at least as far as Shalstone , Buckinghamshire , and her own work took her as far as Edgcote on the Oxfordshire border . |
| 29 | Though the majority of those reviewing Braverman 's work took a positive view of his thesis , there have been a significant number of detailed criticisms and revisions to his argument . |
| 30 | It could be argued that he saw it as something of a homecoming : Neil had attended Yeovil Grammar School for a time when his father 's work took the family there . |