Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] work [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of the hours I worked at the newspaper office I hardly ever saw any television . |
| 2 | For some months I worked in the Information Department of the British Embassy , where I was engaged in propaganda , which included writing leaders for the Iraq Times . |
| 3 | During the first few months he worked with a gang of local road-menders , filling pot-holes on the highway , smoothing cambers , paving the dirt tracks that led to ranches . |
| 4 | In the south around the centres of population part-time farmers worked mainly in urban areas as teachers , advisers or tradesmen , whilst in more remote areas they worked in the forests , in the hydro-electricity industry , or as lorry/bus drivers . |
| 5 | Periodically he returned to his Australian roots , but for long periods he worked in the UK . |
| 6 | After going to Sheffield University she worked in a London store and trained to be a pilot in her spare time . |
| 7 | During the war I worked for the women 's voluntary service and shortly afterwards I went abroad for a few years , returning in the late 1940s , divorced with three children . |
| 8 | During this period I worked as a computer programmer in Accra for a year . |
| 9 | For over twenty years I worked under the delusion that I was teaching maths . |
| 10 | During the war she worked as a translator , and at the time of the action of the novel she has taken up this trade again recently . |
| 11 | For more than 20 years she worked as a physio-therapist in the elderly care sector . |
| 12 | Until recently her job was there , too — for three years she worked as a shop assistant in the hosiery department of the massive Neiman Marcus store — but then the success of Inner City allowed her to leave . |
| 13 | During the Second World War he worked in the production of aero-engine components and served as engineer officer with the Clevedon Fire Brigade . |
| 14 | While at Cambridge he worked on the problem of the stability of Saturn 's rings . |
| 15 | The story tells how the beggar was rejected by all except an old couple who gave him food and shelter for the night , and the punishment he wrought upon the villagers . |
| 16 | After 10 years he worked for The Farmers Journal . |
| 17 | For the next two years he worked as a solicitor in Exmouth . |
| 18 | Well it , it , at least it 's gold , I mean , I , I , I was in the jewellery trade when I first left school , between school and national service I worked at a manufacturing jewellers in Birmingham and I 've never really gone along with the idea that nine carat is actually gold . |
| 19 | ‘ Every day he works with the defence and makes sure everything is tight . |
| 20 | Out erm well , mum , in the morning she works as a postwoman and then the rest of the day she works as a , in the pub so |
| 21 | Nevertheless , quite apart from their value as a temporary measure to kick-start a move to overcome corporate cultural stereotypes , it was argued convincingly that at an operational level they worked as a performance standard on managers , making them work harder to find , encourage and develop female high-fliers . |
| 22 | Of course they work on a Saturday . |
| 23 | ‘ My ole man got upset an' 'e told me ter get rid o' the bloody fing before 'e got 'ome from work ternight. 'E works on the trams , yer see , ’ the woman explained . |
| 24 | For ten years after graduation he worked as a curate in Somerset , most of the time as assistant to his father . |
| 25 | Funny that , when Jack was a student in Sheffield he worked in a fruit store and THEY sold cabbages . |
| 26 | In the summer of his second year at university he worked at a butcher 's . |
| 27 | ‘ Men I work with every day . |
| 28 | In the same way , it is up to you how many rows you work between the cables . |
| 29 | Apart from the penalty he worked like a beaver . |
| 30 | Although not an outstanding boxer himself , he assisted a number of other young boxers including the more famous ex-slave champion Tom Molyneux in whose corner he worked during the Virginian 's classic fight with the English heavyweight champion Tom Cribb in December 1810 , Cribb finishing victorious ( Egan , 1812 ) . |