Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] work [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of the hours I worked at the newspaper office I hardly ever saw any television . |
| 2 | For some months I worked in the Information Department of the British Embassy , where I was engaged in propaganda , which included writing leaders for the Iraq Times . |
| 3 | In the south around the centres of population part-time farmers worked mainly in urban areas as teachers , advisers or tradesmen , whilst in more remote areas they worked in the forests , in the hydro-electricity industry , or as lorry/bus drivers . |
| 4 | Periodically he returned to his Australian roots , but for long periods he worked in the UK . |
| 5 | For over twenty years I worked under the delusion that I was teaching maths . |
| 6 | After 10 years he worked for The Farmers Journal . |
| 7 | In the same way , it is up to you how many rows you work between the cables . |
| 8 | In the mornings he worked in the kitchen while his aunt baked or cooked or sewed ; here in the evenings he absorbed the sense of the impact of new industries on an older more settled way of life which , much later , found its way into the stories and sketches of his best Welsh work , Rest and Unrest and Light and Twilight . |
| 9 | Throughout the long evenings she worked in the garden and planned what bulbs she would plant for spring flowers . |