Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] work [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All but four relate to children and babies who were patients on Ward 4 , the children 's ward , where she worked as a nurse . |
| 2 | The Chiefs of Staff took the unusual step of going down to the Royal Naval College , Greenwich , in the late spring of 1952 , where they worked for a fortnight on Churchill 's requirement with their principal scientific and technological advisers , free from the day-to-day hubbub of Whitehall . |
| 3 | ‘ The eventual aim ’ , wrote Alexander Cockburn in Student Power ‘ is the cementing of a revolutionary bloc with working-class forces ; but the immediate power of the student lies in his university , his college , where he works as a student . ’ |
| 4 | Mr Bolona is equally welcome in financial circles in North America , where he worked for a time as a consultant on Latin American debt . |
| 5 | He served in the US Army Signals Corps during the latter stages of the First World War before settling in Onawa , Iowa , where he worked as a teacher and ran a sweetshop in his spare time . |
| 6 | Before the hon. Gentleman gets up , let me say that I worked as a probation officer in the King 's Cross area , which was one of the most difficult areas for homelessness in the 1970s . |
| 7 | ‘ I think for this department it 's important that we work as a team and we all get great satisfaction from seeing a complex job completed . ’ |
| 8 | Should we make sure that we work through a list of gestures , for example , in the same way that we cover a set of basic language functions in the beginners ' syllabus ? |
| 9 | Often the set lunches are so cheap , in fact , that they work as a loss leader — a taster to tempt people back in the evening . |
| 10 | So that it works as a spring at the moment , just No you need something finer than this . |
| 11 | Do not be misled , however , into thinking that it works like a spreadsheet because it is only a grid for entering figures and can not perform any calculations for you . |
| 12 | This had caused such abnormal interest that the next time he was asked he said that he worked in a garage . |
| 13 | I do n't rightly know but only that he worked in a shop , a big shop , and he always wore a nice suit . |
| 14 | He went home with a single man whose mantelpiece was crowded with framed family photos — partners , holidays , weddings , babies , graduations , christenings ; the man ( who was gorgeous ) told Boy that he worked in a photo processing lab , and that none of the photos were of his own family or lovers , but were all stolen . |
| 15 | My name is Bill and I work for a firm called Peter 's Windows , we manufacture and fit high quality conservatories , patio doors , double glazing and se security windows etcetera , is there anything in this line you 'll be do you think ? |
| 16 | disturbed you but I wo n't be on the phone long cos I er , my name is Bill and I work with a firm called for Windows . |
| 17 | But I think that 's the only thing were , if I worked in a benefit office I would n't get on very well , because if I saw something I 'd try and move heaven and earth to make everything to go right for me . |
| 18 | During World War I she was amongst the pacifist seceders from the NUWSS and she worked as a representative of the No-Conscription Fellowship for conscientious objectors at their trials by tribunal and for the Women 's Peace Crusade . |
| 19 | And Hilda was her maiden name , last seen forty nine years ago , she lived on Estate , , Nottingham and she worked as a labeller in the bottle department of Brewery . |
| 20 | Pollock took the studio on the property they bought in Springs , and she worked in a bedroom . |
| 21 | We learn with them that he designs furniture ( as Harry Hoffman did ) and she works in a gallery of primitive art on Madison Avenue , but only in the end do they reveal their names to each other . |
| 22 | It 's daft , it says a girl 's always got to wear grey if she works behind a counter or in a business 'ouse or as an 'otel clerk . |
| 23 | If she works in a shop or office , she could take samples of her work to show her colleagues or she could offer to make a garment for a friend for just the price of the yarn . |
| 24 | Read for a while , then do some writing or some research browsing in a library ; this can reduce the effect of strain or tiredness with long bouts of writing , something which is particularly important for health reasons if you work at a computer . |
| 25 | If you work if you work on a quarter page at three ninety and cos remember you 're telling all this on the phone . |
| 26 | Resistors are like pipes , if you work with a resistance it 's always one over so forget about resistance , deal with conductance . |
| 27 | Here it if often helpful if you work with a partner , as long as you both think along the same lines . |
| 28 | If you work for a company which insists that you drive a particular brand of car , resign , first writing off the car in an accident in which two teenage hookers and a hallucinating macaw reach a rather untimely end . |
| 29 | That 's right , I mean , again , it 's one of those things , it 's in the benefits package , if you work for a company , you do n't want to know about it until you need to claim . |
| 30 | If you work in a university , polytechnic , college or school anywhere in the world and your work is held up for lack of funding , the Research Fund may be able to help you . |