Example sentences of "[vb past] to work at [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The discovery , in 1945 by Brotzu in Sardinia , of antibiotic activity in a species of Cephalosporium recovered from the sea near a sewage outfall was brought to Florey 's attention by a former British public health officer and led to work at Oxford and elsewhere on this and similar organisms . |
2 | He also wrote a two-volume work on The Architecture of Robert and James Adam ( 1922 ) , which led to work at Adam 's Royal Society of Arts and in 1925 to his being consultant to the eighth Earl of Jersey at Osterley Park . |
3 | In the early days of the strike Jayaben Desai , perhaps Britain 's best known Asian trade unionist , described to me what it had been like when she came to work at Grunwick in the mail order department : |
4 | in fact her brother er came to work at Oliver 's , er , er |
5 | When he came to work at lunchtime , his first question was : ‘ How goes it ? |
6 | Millworkers ' houses were erected by the owners of Kinleith Mill , along with other houses for the use of quarry workers who came to work at Torphin Quarry . |
7 | Stuart had told me that Aj ( whose name is short for Arnold Junior , after the Head Forester of whom he became the spitting image when he first came to work at Clumber as a woodsman ten years ago at the age of sixteen ) was a dab hand with a tractor . |
8 | She began to work at nights because there were fewer people working in the factory then , and so it was easier to get into the photographic laboratory . |
9 | I was never away off the island until er I started to work at Holland . |
10 | By the 1920s , the French had lost their monopoly , but proceeded to work at Susa until the Islamic revolution of 1979 . |
11 | Maggie had to work at things because Mitch was very different from his usual amusing self . |
12 | Roberts ' student days coincided with the depression and to finance his studies he had to work at night and on Saturdays in a bakery store . |
13 | Of the categories ineligible for home relocation assistance , 75 per cent continued to work at Stevenage after their jobs moved although many of these have now left the company . |
14 | He was one of six chosen from a brigade of 40 to accompany Quinn when he then left to work at Ettington Park , Staffordshire . |