Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] work [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I went looking for Mathilda and found her working in the buttery with the other maids . |
2 | I noted him working on the machinery while we were waiting to ascend . |
3 | Baldwin disliked the level of unemployment both for its own sake and because he believed it worked against the evolution of a moderate Labour Party . |
4 | I mean they were n't badly Me father at th er at the beginning of the war he worked he worked at the Grove pit , down the mine at the Grove and he used to be on afternoons . |
5 | Victoria and Kay were so impressed with her rapport with the children that they asked her to work in the morning as well . |
6 | Well he was as far as I can remember he was thirty eight he , he went he worked at the Gas Works , ca n't remember much about that really but er I think he 'd actually been working nights and came home and actually died in bed I believe . |
7 | Erm did you work in the kitchen doing a different job than you were doing ? |
8 | Did they work through the night as well , was it shiftwork there ? |
9 | She said he worked for the fund on a voluntary basis , adding : ‘ It had nothing to do with Nalgo . |
10 | Not only did they need access to the non-arable resources controlled by the nobility , but their ever-growing land shortage compelled them to work for the nobility on conditions which had much in common with those of serfdom . |
11 | To start off Changez 's career in the grocery business , Anwar instructed him to work on the till , where you could get by with only one arm and half a brain . |