Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] work [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By noon , he could hardly stand , let alone tramp over the moor , and he stumbled about , muttering away in Gaelic , complaining about working for a bunch of foreigners who had usurped his rightful King . |
| 2 | The criminal law defines only some types of violence as criminal assault ; it excludes verbal assaults that can , and sometimes do , break a person 's spirit ; it excludes forms of assault whose injuries become apparent years later , such as those resulting from working in a polluted factory environment where the health risk was known to the employer but concealed from the employee ( Swartz 1975 ) ; it excludes ‘ compulsory ’ drug-therapy or electric-shock treatment given to ‘ mentally disturbed ’ patients or prisoners who are denied the civilized rights to refuse such beneficial medical help ( Mitford 1977 ; Szasz 1970,1977a , 1977b ) ; it excludes chemotherapy prescribed to control ‘ naughty ’ schoolboys , but includes physically hitting teachers ( Box 1981b ; Schrag and Divoky 1981 ) . |
| 3 | Support for the Association 's work continues to come forward and the Association is increasingly benefiting from working with other organisations on mutually beneficial projects with the Association often achieving both publicity and financial assistance . |
| 4 | I suppose the , the sort of things that made me think I might be suitable for social work have been coming from working with the young . |
| 5 | Well also just my experience , my own experience with the developments of and the evolution of the policies in Kuwait coming at working at Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research , there were many erm studies conducted at Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research and the other institute , The Social erm Political Institute , and they were the main of that was the probe through all these policies and through these institutions we have in Kuwait and try to improve it to a standard that the Kuwaiti people and the neighbouring country can benefit from at that . |
| 6 | A statute of 1388 attempted to reinforce the Statute of Labourers , the measure enacted to control wages after the Black Death of 1348–49 , but attempts in 1389 to put it into practice showed that men were trying to shake off the stigma of villein tenure , even at the cost of taking a cash wage worth less in real terms than the combination of cash and food which they had been paid previously , insisting on working by the day rather than contracting for a yearly wage , and exploiting the possibility of alternative employment ( 65 , pp.92–5 ) . |
| 7 | Neamy had been sentenced to death on April 30 , charged with spying on Palestinian refugees in Iraq after allegedly admitting to working for Mossad , the Israeli secret service . |
| 8 | They were surprised to learn that he was retiring after working for fifty-one years ! |
| 9 | He used to be a crane driver dear for , yeah he used and I 've got to , one of me sons now is a foreman for , well they 're not now it 's , it 's sort of amal amalgamated with another firm now I think , but he does , he does erm , he 's a foreman like now , he used to be a truck , crane driver and my , the very night that my hubby died on the following Monday he would of been working in Harlow , he got a new crane to take over in Harlow and he 'd been working away from home for weeks and months of the year always away , coming home weekends and I used to have to cook and do his washing and pack him up for going off again Monday morning early , but he never was near home working then , and as I say the night before he went he was , he was gon na work on the Monday to in Old , to Harlow down where the new er place was for and it unfortunately cos he went . |
| 10 | Of course , you 're free to work seven if you want to , just for er , training purpose , I 'm gon na work on a five day week . |
| 11 | Now we 're planning to do a , we do n't wan na do another budget , re-budget forecast until June July , we , cos it , we do n't need to do one for this bu any budget year starting July , we 're gon na work on the calendar year . |
| 12 | twisted , warped , it 's in a sense it 's exactly the same as the circle , you know you draw the circle it 's a line that starts there and goes perfectly round and comes back to the starting point , it 's exactly the same as that , but it 's been pushed out at the edges , it 's been dented in here , it 's not recognisable now as that same circle , although it 's what it is , and you see what , what has happened is although we 've sinned , although we 've come short of God 's plan , God has n't destroyed the whole thing , he could so easily just taken up the human life and crumple it up and thrown it on the heap , said finished with them , ca n't be bothered , I 'll start all over again with new people , I 'll have a new creation , well he did have a new creation , but he kept that same creation , he said I 'm gon na work on it , I 'm gon na do something with it , I 'm gon na restore it , I 'm gon na ransom it , I 'm gon na redeem it , I 'm gon na make it again , not just like it was , but I 'm gon na make it even more wonderful and more beautiful . |
| 13 | I could n't see how it was gon na work at Budgens to be quite honest , that new post office |
| 14 | You go away for thirteen weeks on a course with the dog , you 're introduced to the dog you 're gon na work with , yeah ? |
| 15 | there 's no grand great play that 's gon na work with that . |
| 16 | But yo , you need somebody who 's gon na work with him every day and with an individual programme and you just ca n't offer that in a class . |
| 17 | You 've just to got be ca You 've just got to be careful that you get it i i you 've got it pristine working and it 's gon na work for two days . |
| 18 | You were gon na work for them at one point Rich . |
| 19 | And it 's gon na work along the lines of well , if we 're looking at a typical endowment mortgage , yeah , normally they run for twenty-five years , do n't they . |
| 20 | Once Anne had accepted the fact that I was n't gon na work in the foreseeable future , and it was her choice that we stay , cos I gave her a clear choice , it was either move away where I could get work , or stay and suffer the wages of the dole like you know . |
| 21 | If you feel comfortable going in second one of these and these alone , that 's fine by him do what we did come in the first place , you can go in , take your briefcase pop it down there , this says to them , this is where I 'm gon na work from , is that okay with you ? |
| 22 | They 're gon na work from nine thirty till four thirty this Sunday . |
| 23 | I 'm sure that 's that 's gon na work against what you 've been trying to do since you got here . |