Example sentences of "worked [prep] the [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In his early career Mr Forman worked as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to Sir Ian Gilmour , Douglas Hurd and former Chancellor Nigel Lawson .
2 Well I worked for the past two year really
3 Tom , who worked for the British Caprotti poppet valve-gear manufacturers , Associated Locomotive Equipment Ltd , was instrumental , not only in the original design of 71000 , but also in the rebuilt carried out by the Trust .
4 The Far Eastern bank interviewed took an entirely different line ; they always worked with the large international firms , claiming that neither they nor candidates had any confidence in the smaller firms .
5 Mozart worked with the commonplace musical fabric of his time , the prescribed structures , instrumental combinations , harmonic progressions and melodic formulae that he had absorbed as a child , and from which a Salieri and hundreds like him fashioned polite , two-dimensional drawing-room music suitable for the delectation or titillation of many a jaded aristocratic ear .
6 The Bordari , were an inferior class to the Villani , who rented cottages and worked on the other pastoral services and were bound to supply eggs , poultry etc. to the lords table .
7 After all , she worked on the nineteenth-century industrial novel for something like ten years , and even after publishing her book she went on accumulating ideas and insights about the subject .
8 In 1917 Macmillan took the chair of history at the Johannesburg School of Mines ( later the University of the Witwatersrand ) where he worked on the radical Scots missionary Dr John Philip .
9 We wish those who worked on the interim advisory committee well and we look forward to the next phase in the determination of teachers ' pay which is the work of the pay review body under the chairmanship of Sir Graham Day .
10 The Carlton Girls , one of the many Tiller troupes who worked on the exhausting cine-variety circuits
11 There he worked on the unfashionable inorganic chemistry ; his science was always to be on the boundary of physics and chemistry .
12 One notes S. A. Waksman ( 1888–1973 ) , who worked at the Agricultural Experimental Station of the State University of New Jersey .
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