Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] work [prep] the [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 | Qua researcher , the academic may inhabit world III ; but qua teacher , he or she works in the realm of world II . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | That I work against the Imam Khomeini — ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm pleased with it , ’ Maria responded warily , reminding herself that she worked for the man . |
| 12 | " I did n't know that you worked in the Biology Department . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And er G E C Marconi , Avionex er were responsible for making sure that it worked within the hardware in the system . |
| 17 | Betty Maitland very obligingly looked up Danny Ram on the payroll ( his name was actually Danyatai Ram ) and told Robyn that he worked in the foundry . |
| 18 | I used sign language , and I worked on the assumption that all deaf people can lipread . |
| 19 | Denis and I worked on the show each morning and on our final evening we performed it in ninety degree heat for a deeply moved and even more deeply biased audience of mutual families . |
| 20 | and I worked for the council so he spoke to me one day and he said , Will you cut the roads with a tractor and a mower . |
| 21 | And I worked in the pit bottom for a start , for about three or four months , in the pit bottom . |
| 22 | The woman with whom we boarded took pity on me and I worked in the house with her . |
| 23 | And I worked in the mother and baby home . |
| 24 | If I work on the game , I can get £150 in one night . ’ |
| 25 | If I work through the holidays as well as the terms , and get another mortgage , perhaps I can manage those fees . |
| 26 | Mind if I work in the garage today ? ’ |
| 27 | and you work on the computers what you 're gon na be and then it 'll be silly if they brought you to a nursery afterwards if you wanted to be |
| 28 | In your text book you 've got quite a lot of information in there about reinforcing , what we 're going to do in the practical session and it 's always a help I think when you have a lot of the , thrown at you to know that you can just put it up and there it is if you get a bit confusing or ca n't remember what 's what , so on page one six nine it starts telling you all about nursing and bandages and general hygiene which we 've already talked quite a lot about but it 's very useful for you to know , you can go there and look , and if you just go through the pages from there on one seventy , one seven one , one seven two , one seven three and then on one seven four it 's got the general rules for applying bandages apply bandages when the casualty is sitting or lying down , you always sit your casualty down and you work from the front of , I say why do you work from the front of the thing ? |
| 29 | ‘ And you work in the family business as well ? ’ |
| 30 | In fact , she was very old ; she was twenty-four years old and she worked in the mill and earned eight shillings a week . |