Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [vb past] work [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The indentured labourers hoped to be able to set up as independent farmers once they had worked off the costs of their passages , but the islands soon became so crowded that they were unlikely to be able to do this . |
| 2 | I 'd never even heard of Killerton until I started working for the Trust , but when I was at Drogo I used to come across here fairly regularly because of the regional office being here and because I was just interested . |
| 3 | Let's have a look at the Aberdeen cos I did work on the Aberdeen |
| 4 | They claimed the people 's votes because they had worked in the people 's interest and not their own … |
| 5 | ‘ Although I 'm almost certain Mills was murdered because he 'd worked for the KGB . ’ |
| 6 | But it would have been costly because he 'd worked at the paper for so long . |
| 7 | while I sat working in the sun . |
| 8 | Filmmakers were rarely imported from outside ( Thorold Dickinson , who was allowed in to make Secret People in 1952 , could be regarded as an ‘ old boy ’ since he had worked at the studio during Basil Dean 's time ) and , with five directors responsible for two-thirds of the films made at the studio between 1942 and 1955 , there was little competition inside the studio , and no exposure to fresh ideas from outside . |
| 9 | McAllister , who had put the doll down , and was now fetching out her work basket to embroider pansies on some fine lawn dresses made for the bazaar by the aforesaid ladies , said , ‘ I did n't mean to become involved , you know , but Matey has been so kind to me — when not slave-driving me , you understand — that when she asked me to accompany her I had not the heart to refuse , and strangely , after I began to work for the bazaar , I found that it was most rewarding . ’ |
| 10 | The day after I finished working for the managing director of a certain company fighting off a take-over bid , the agency sent me to the rival company . ’ |
| 11 | I interviewed the student after she had worked in the residential unit for one year . |
| 12 | Co-host Terry Nutkins thought up an assignment for Michaela shortly after she started working on the BBC1 nature programme . |
| 13 | Before they started to work with the video all the teachers were shown the contract which was drawn up by Kate Kennett . |
| 14 | The distinctive characteristics of Glass 's music appeared after he had worked with the Indian sitarist , Ravi Shankar , in 1965 . |
| 15 | Well that 's what Breeze am keep telling me when I got to work in the morning it 's about the time of recession people should advertise more not less that maybe but the hard financial situation of the theatre finds itself in is to find that sort of money is very difficult at the moment . |
| 16 | I did a lot of homework when I started working on the script . |
| 17 | Ask them : What was the most surprising thing that happened to you when you started working on the buses/in the shop/in the hospital/in the school ? |
| 18 | As she had worked for the civil service previously , she applied and was sent a booklet which specified an age range for applicants of 17 ½ to 28 years . |
| 19 | She gently rocked the chair to and fro as she started to work on the head of a unicorn in white embroidery cotton . |
| 20 | Evening courses were arranged on all sorts of subjects , which we as shift workers were unfortunately not able to take advantage of fully , as we had to work during the evenings . |
| 21 | This led the group to recall , towards the end of the meeting , how they , too , had got nowhere with work-refusing children while they constantly demanded better work from them ( thus identifying with Mr E as having known failure instead of contrasting their own better results with his , as they had done earlier ) but how they had been able to help them when they had worked on the relationship . |
| 22 | Grandfather James Hauxwell met Grandmother Elizabeth , who was a Bayles , when he came to work on the building of the reservoir , just below Low Birk Hatt . |
| 23 | He was so overwhelmed and flattered that he could not argue , but when he started working on the ballet he found that the music ( an orchestrated version of Schubert 's four-handed piano pieces ) ‘ said nothing to me ’ . |