Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] work [prep] the [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Periodically he returned to his Australian roots , but for long periods he worked in the UK . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | For over twenty years I worked under the delusion that I was teaching maths . |
| 7 | During the Second World War he worked in the production of aero-engine components and served as engineer officer with the Clevedon Fire Brigade . |
| 8 | While at Cambridge he worked on the problem of the stability of Saturn 's rings . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | After 10 years he worked for The Farmers Journal . |
| 11 | ‘ Every day he works with the defence and makes sure everything is tight . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | In the same way , it is up to you how many rows you work between the cables . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | If you worked in movies in America you worked in the studios and you were their property . |
| 16 | He added : ‘ This is very similar to the way we worked in the Falklands . ’ |
| 17 | I very much thank THE LORD for the NHS and the way he works through the medicines and staff . |
| 18 | I 've always admired Ben Hogan for the way he worked at the game and the determination he showed to succeed . |
| 19 | So in general terms , I agree with you , and that 's the way it works with the exceptions I mentioned . |
| 20 | In the mornings he worked in the kitchen while his aunt baked or cooked or sewed ; here in the evenings he absorbed the sense of the impact of new industries on an older more settled way of life which , much later , found its way into the stories and sketches of his best Welsh work , Rest and Unrest and Light and Twilight . |
| 21 | Most of the time I worked in the bunkers , trying to keep the stoker supplied with enough coal to fire the furnaces ; he would rattle his shovel in the hatch if I fell behind . |
| 22 | Every time you work with the beetles spread a cloth or a large sheet of white paper on the table . |
| 23 | Throughout the long evenings she worked in the garden and planned what bulbs she would plant for spring flowers . |
| 24 | The blunders of the Cour des Comptes may be due to the fact they worked on the basis of an often vaguely worded inventory of 1912 . |
| 25 | , Leigh he works in the chip shop . |
| 26 | Michael Codron had been going there as part of the Kenneth Williams set since the time he worked for the Jack Hylton organization . |