Example sentences of "who worked [prep] the [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the superintendents and foremen who worked on the factory floor , many having themselves been skilled machinists , sided with the operators and consequently nothing happened to change the balance of power . |
| 2 | Yong 's father was appalled at the idea , but was finally persuaded to invest in fifty tons of raw salt , to be used in the curing of the venison which abounded in the Eastern islands , as well as several hundred plastic chairs , and a quantity of spare diving equipment for the pearl-shellers who worked for the Aru branch of the Tan family . |
| 3 | In the book The Soul of a New Machine , Tracy Kidder quotes a secretary who worked for the Eagle Team under the visionary Tom West . |
| 4 | Chinese authorities have executed a bank accountant who embezzled more than $175,000 in the country 's first such case of computer fraud , the Xinhua Daily Telegraph newspaper reported yesterday : Shi Biao , who worked for the Jilin branch of the state-run Agricultural Bank of China , was found to have siphoned funds to private accounts from August to November 1991 , and he and accomplice Yu Lixin were arrested as they were preparing to leave China through the southern economic zone of Shenzhen , bordering Hong Kong ; it was the first case of bank embezzlement via computer in China ; China imposes the death penalty for a variety of offences , ranging from bicycle theft to panda poaching . |
| 5 | I had a friend who worked for the oil people , and I decided to stay after a visit to this place . |
| 6 | The IRA regarded civilians who worked for the security forces as " legitimate targets " , but the attacks on civilian workers prompted several joint protest demonstrations by Catholic and Protestant workers . |
| 7 | The evil paedophile , who worked for the prisons charity NIACRO , preyed on youngsters using his position of trust with the St. Lazarus ' ambulance corps . |
| 8 | As we were mixing the B side , this guy called Calvin Mark Lee , who worked for the record company , was actually off at Philips cutting the A side . |
| 9 | Freddie , who worked for the youth department of the Jewish community in Rosenstrasse , had organised and travelled with many transports , until finally he was warned : ‘ You either stay in England or you 've had it . ’ |
| 10 | The Crown lawyer said the court would hear that the probable target was a man who worked for the Environment Department and whose tasks also involved working at Ministry of Defence properties . |
| 11 | ‘ We ’ turned out to be a husband who worked at the London HQ of an oil company and two children , a boy of twelve and a girl of fifteen , both at boarding school . |
| 12 | David Lynch , who worked at the Passport Office , admitted his part in a racket to slip the documents on to the black market where they were worth £40,000 each . |
| 13 | A Victorian gentleman called A.J. Munby toured the Wigan coalfield talking to the pit brow " lasses " who worked at the pit top sorting coal from muck during an intense instance in the nineteenth-century struggle to regulate the sex of waged workers and of men and women . |
| 14 | The witnesses were people who worked at the registry office . |
| 15 | Four porters who worked at the Heathrow Penta Hotel refused to meet or greet guests , deliver keys to rooms or move luggage if a guest transferred to a new room . |
| 16 | For most people in Britain , the Medical Research Council 's study , published in February 1990 , revealing the strong possibility that fathers who worked in the Sellafield reprocessing plant in Cumbria had passed leukaemia to their children in their sperm , moved speculation out of the realms of the circumstantial into that of the confirmed . |
| 17 | And tonight he was going to meet a magnificent girl called Jane Ashton who worked in the Y.M.C.A. canteen in the village of Chavigny . |
| 18 | This could occasionally , in Green 's case , be augmented by smoke from the many charcoal burners who worked in the lakeland woods . |
| 19 | Another fake defector operating at the same time was Top Hat ( whose real name remains unknown ) , who also planted a lot of false information on the West through the Americans but did in 1965 expose the spy Frank Bossard , who worked in the Missile Guidance Branch at the Air Ministry and had been selling secrets to the GRU for some while . |
| 20 | This problem faced by the teacher who sees himself as deliverer of prepacked information is admirably expressed by Caldwell Cook , who worked in the Perse School , Cambridge . |
| 21 | One was Morey Bernstein , who worked in the United States , and the other was Arnall Bloxham , who worked in Britain . |
| 22 | Bill Hadley , who worked in the sales department alongside Clive would like to get in touch with him . |
| 23 | According to Mark Siegel , who worked in the Carter White House , With Reagan in the executive mansion the atmosphere was different ; members of congress were pleased to have their telephone calls returned ; where possible they were provided with assistance and they were carefully plyed with the ‘ small potatoes ’ of presidential patronage . |
| 24 | Yes I well remember er I use when I was staying down at Trimley there was erm a lady there who worked in the Billeting Department , who ca who herself was evacuated from London and er , I used to catch the same bus with her but she never would speak to me , erm and erm one morning er she lived down at Curton and one morning they had some erm er German planes over Curton and they were doing some machine gunning and that sort of thing and erm and we met at the bus stop and she was full of it and erm that sort of broke the ice it was |
| 25 | Well it 's interesting , actually , because I 've heard that before erm the piece that Audrey read out , and in fact erm someone in the City Council , a women in the City Council , put it on the front of her door and there was an outcry by many of the men who worked in the City Council . |
| 26 | Carrie 's only problem was the other woman who worked in the dining rooms . |
| 27 | During the previous six months I had been able to keep a more watchful eye on the whereabouts of the elusive Charlie , thanks to the help of a young officer Daphne had introduced me to who worked in the War Office . |
| 28 | None of the arguments , she thought , held up to any serious analysis ; at best they provoked people into thought about housework , at worst they antagonised large numbers of women and hostility in all men and women who worked in the labour movement in any way . |
| 29 | Helen Zeitlin , who worked in the haematology unit at the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch for five years , and was dismissed on the grounds of redundancy , has won her appeal against the decision . |
| 30 | When we went on holiday , perhaps to Eastbourne , we used to have four or five other couples who worked in the Post Office with me — we met down there annually and played bowls amongst ourselves . ’ |