Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] work [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My dad was a coach builder and my mum worked at the gas board . |
| 2 | My er my sister worked in the grenade shop and erm after she ca she 'd been working at , on the manor , do you know the manor at Willenhall and then er she decided to go on with the war work and she was courting the man named , John and his father was the timekeeper , later H & T Hornes , but erm it fizzled out and anyway the romance did but erm |
| 3 | With my mind working with the speed of desperation , it seemed I would be safest where I was till I could break away in the direction of the bus station . |
| 4 | To promote and facilitate discussion at school level about the philosophy of the Catholic school ( using my experiences working for the Queensland Catholic Education Commission as a stimulus . ) |
| 5 | But you see my parents work in the theatre and I 'm so used to moving from town to town that I ca n't afford to waste time . |
| 6 | My hon. Friend will be aware that many of my constituents work in the knitwear industry and are grateful for the steps already taken by the Government . |
| 7 | My father worked on the railway and in my conscious life he was a supervisor , he was called an inspector , Inspector . |
| 8 | Stoke area was chosen I suppose because my father worked on the railway and you either worked on the railway or if you lived over Stoke , it was well known for that . |
| 9 | Well er my father worked at the farm Odness . |
| 10 | I think it 's sometimes falsely represented as being academic or being unreal or as not relating to the masses of women 's lives , and it 's out of my own experience I just want to be clear about this , it 's out of my own experience as an incest survivor , as a pornography survivor , my father worked in the porn industry , that I came to revolutionary feminism . |
| 11 | We were a large family of seven and my father worked on the railway and he only had two pounds a week , but we could make three pounds and ten shillings just at the weekend by working the clubs . |
| 12 | I had been down in my pantry working through the supplies sheets , when I had heard somewhere above my head the unmistakable sounds of motor cars pulling up in the courtyard . |
| 13 | ‘ My daughter works in the shop . |
| 14 | ‘ My son works for the housing dept around here . |
| 15 | My brother works for the Department of Health and he can always arrange to get away if he knows the date far enough in advance . ’ |
| 16 | She 's typed up and then said she 's hyped up because her sister works for the R S P C A , and she 's |
| 17 | Oh ours is , Mike knows somebody , one of the lads , their mum works in the Poll Tax Office in Buckley and erm , she reckons that , that ours will be going up about fifty pound is it ? |
| 18 | The reason behind SIP is , according to POSC president , Dan Turner , that ‘ for every dollar that companies spend on software , they spend $1.50 to $2.00 more to get their programmes to work with the rest of their systems . |
| 19 | This demonstrated the importance of family factors in determining the occupational choice of rural school-leavers — nearly 42 per cent of the respondents stated that they had been influenced by their family in their decision to work on the land . |
| 20 | According to Marx 's theory the many different units were willing to unite and contribute their labour to work for the despot because this appeared , not as working for him , but as working for ‘ the higher unity ’ , which , they wrongly believed , was the source of their continued existence . |
| 21 | The East India Company and other companies like the Royal Africa Company and the Hudson 's Bay Company rarely brought in men like Roe to help with work at the top , and normally expected to promote people who had spent their lives working for the Company . |
| 22 | Finally , when they get back home once again they are ‘ in demand ’ , and it is in their nature to work for the family again and put their own wants or needs to the bottom of the pile ! |
| 23 | In her years working with the Madam and then running her brothel she had come to know many , and she could usually spot their type . |
| 24 | by the station , her husband worked on the railway there . |
| 25 | She came from a housing estate in Tadley , and her husband worked at the Establishment behind the Falcon Gate . |
| 26 | She had long since realized her husband worked for the government , but he had never discussed it with her , much less told her he was a spy . |
| 27 | The three areas with farmers in the upper age brackets often had their families working on the farm . |
| 28 | When British Steel closed its Shotton works with the loss of 8,500 jobs , Mr Rees became chairman of Deeside Enterprise Trust charged with the responsibility of creating new jobs . |
| 29 | In fact , the uncertain times of Terris ' appearances have had such an effect on workmen that the Maintenance Department do not allow their staff to work in the station through the night in case the ghost interferes with their potentially dangerous work . |
| 30 | Its authority to work for the removal of all barriers to the free movement of coal and steel rested on a wide array of actions , ranging from non-binding recommendations to binding decisions . |