Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] work [prep] [art] [noun] " 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 | The master , A. D. Lindsay ( later first Baron Lindsay of Birker , q.v. ) , encouraged him to work for a spell ( 1927–8 ) at a Quaker settlement for the unemployed in the Rhondda Valley — an experience which made a deep impression . |
| 5 | At the end of the week she discovered he worked for an average of 1 minute at a time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Victoria and Kay were so impressed with her rapport with the children that they asked her to work in the morning as well . |
| 8 | Everywhere she went she worked like a trooper and her wonderful smile let you know she was enjoying everything she did . |
| 9 | I thought she worked in a building society ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Did you work as a member of a group , now what do you think that means ? |
| 12 | ‘ Did you work as a librarian all your life ? ’ |
| 13 | Did you work in a group ? |
| 14 | Erm did you work in the kitchen doing a different job than you were doing ? |
| 15 | Did you work in the pits for a long time ? |
| 16 | Did they work through the night as well , was it shiftwork there ? |
| 17 | What did he work for a living ? |
| 18 | ‘ The colonel said you worked for a travel agency as an assessor of foreign locations . |
| 19 | Anne said she worked in a factory at one time . |
| 20 | She said he worked for the fund on a voluntary basis , adding : ‘ It had nothing to do with Nalgo . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |