Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] work [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I tired of writing press releases on new lube concepts I left Wartberg 's valve business to go to the Angstrom Corporation , where I worked on the launch of a new biscuit , the Pink Finger . |
| 2 | Where I worked in the university , if a woman came in covered in bruises , no one would say anything , although we all knew what had happened . |
| 3 | The galloping granny , from Bristol , used to run the 800 yards and 4 x 400 relay for the Imperial Tobacco company where she worked on the shop floor . |
| 4 | All but four relate to children and babies who were patients on Ward 4 , the children 's ward , where she worked as a nurse . |
| 5 | Qua researcher , the academic may inhabit world III ; but qua teacher , he or she works in the realm of world II . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | Mr Bolona is equally welcome in financial circles in North America , where he worked for a time as a consultant on Latin American debt . |
| 9 | Having to choose between being ‘ poor in Oxford or comfortable in Aber. ’ , he chose Aberystwyth , where he worked on the university magazine , published his first poems and stories , and dabbled in left-wing politics . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Now retired and living in Woodside , Barnard Castle , he left Tyneside to become a UN civil servant based in Washington DC , in the USA , where he worked with the World Bank and International Monetary Fund . |
| 12 | In the summer of 1914 Braque was once more at Sorgues , while Picasso spent his time between Sorgues and Avignon , where he worked in the company of André Derain . |
| 13 | They 'd have registered the fact that I work for an advertising agency , and marked me accordingly : ‘ I do think essentially he 's a popular artist , do n't you ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Well , ’ said Caspar , and then glanced over his shoulder as if to make sure no one was listening , ‘ well , the truth of it is , that I work for the Gruagach . |
| 15 | That I work against the Imam Khomeini — ’ |
| 16 | I explained that I worked during the winter for a golf-mad stockbroker called Andrew Buccleuth whom I had met during my year on the amateur circuit . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm pleased with it , ’ Maria responded warily , reminding herself that she worked for the man . |
| 19 | One of the first things you 'll realise is that you work for an organisation that has to react and respond rapidly to changing circumstances . |
| 20 | " I did n't know that you worked in the Biology Department . |
| 21 | I think that the first thing that one would have to say is that we work for the Ministry of Defence , and not the Ministry of War and therefore we are about defence , we 're about the maintenance of peace , erm this you know maintaining of justice etc etc . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | IWM 's Bevis Griffiths supervised the conservation work on the Firefly , and had this to say of the professional/volunteer team used to restore Z2033 : ‘ The Museum require volunteers for this sort of work because we have some seventy aircraft here at Duxford and six [ full-time ] technicians to look after them , which in anybody 's book is a huge workload , so we work alongside the volunteers . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Frequently venue staff try to set everything up before you arrive , on the basis that it worked for the people before you and it 's less effort for them . |
| 27 | And er G E C Marconi , Avionex er were responsible for making sure that it worked within the hardware in the system . |
| 28 | So that it works as a spring at the moment , just No you need something finer than this . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The date and place of his birth , and the early years of his Bohemian adult life , remain obscure , although it is known that he worked as an actor in England and travelled widely on the Continent . |