Example sentences of "[Wh pn] work [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were taken by animal welfare worker Terry Hill , who worked as a technician at Shamrock for nearly a year . |
| 2 | The woman , who worked as a waitress in the sergeant 's mess , told Ingrid all she knew about the compound , and advised her to steer clear of the cookhouse . |
| 3 | I was enormously glad she had made that little speech for the mere sight of Erich — the knowledge that a man who worked as a painter in a Ford Taunus factory and was , in his own way , a type-specimen of Atlantic man , with no known connections with the new Ocean , had somehow fetched up on a remote Pacific island — was disturbing the entire thesis I wished to construct . |
| 4 | Smith , an ex-army nurse who worked as a counsellor for homosexual soldiers , claimed in his appeal that he was the victim of a miscarriage of justice . |
| 5 | Farideh Cadot offers us the penetrating lyrical vision of the late Daniel Tremblay , who worked with a range of disparate materials . |
| 6 | The death by drowning of a girl who worked for a Minister of the Crown and who died after dining at the restaurant where the Minister 's wife was also dining , whether or not he himself was present , would normally have justified at least a brief paragraph in one of the national papers . |
| 7 | The list of British craft union leaders of this period is filled with men who worked for a spell in the United States or somewhere else overseas , as they might have worked for a spell in Newcastle or Barrow-in-Furness . |
| 8 | Esther Dyson , a pretty deaf woman aged 23 without any speech , who worked at a thread-mill in Ecclesfield and lived with her brother , who was also deaf without speech , was accused of the murder . |
| 9 | I heard the story of a lad , from the Bishop Auckland area like me , who worked at a farm in Teesdale for two shillings and sixpence a week . |
| 10 | The Thurlstone militia returns of 1806 name 129 men , of whom forty-one were weavers and twenty-one were clothiers , each of them humble men who worked at a loom in their own home . |
| 11 | The two chemists were Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann who worked in a lab at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City . |
| 12 | There was a conflict between the role and the man , between the priest who wanted to lead a hidden life and the public persona who worked within a regime of absolute power which he faithfully served while understanding the need to revolt against it . |
| 13 | A similar dazzling double-take is achieved by Moira , who works as a secretary in a big office and wears bog-standard floral Laura Ashley trousers and cotton jumpers like the rest of us , but when she leaves work pulls on a very old duffle coat — white at the seams , so old that it ca n't be accidental — which screams out , ‘ I am an intellectual , actually . |
| 14 | Susan Cole-King from Burcott has already been ordained ; it was into the Episcopal Church in the United States four years ago , but Mrs Cole-King , who works as a deacon for the Oxford diocese at Dorchester , is looking forward to the day she 'll be able to act as a priest closer to home . |
| 15 | However , by chance , an acquaintance of yours who works as a salesman for a machine tool company has visited Mr Forbes earlier in the year . |
| 16 | Waiters ' hopes : Steven Coates , 20 , of Northallerton , who works as a waiter at Harrogate 's Crown Hotel , and York 's Simon Girling , 23 , head waiter at Torquay 's Imperial Hotel , have reached regional finals of the Young Waiter of the Year competition . |
| 17 | ‘ I have an old friend who works for a publisher in New York and I stayed with her for a couple of weeks while I found a job . |
| 18 | We eventually learn that Someone is a psychiatrist called Larry who works for a group of astrophysicists at a scientific research laboratory . |
| 19 | Tony Stones , a sculptor who works in a shed near Oxford and Phil Collins , by virtue of his musical talents an international megastar . |
| 20 | Dr. David Spackman from Bloxham , who works in a surgery at Sibford Gower , was asked to go to Iraq to give medical attention to the thirty eight hostages the former prime minister brought home . |
| 21 | Now he is showing Josef Zehrer ( 2–27 March ) who works in a variety of different media . |
| 22 | Mechanic Tommy Murray , 24 , who works in a garage on the corner of the road , said : ‘ There was blood all over the place . |
| 23 | Choose from an assortment of shapes , sizes and colours and order from Liz ( who works from a cottage near Evesham ) on 0386–871159 . |