Example sentences of "he worked [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During World War II he served in the Royal Artillery and the Army Bureau of Current Affairs , the latter foreshadowing his immediately postwar position as head of the department for the exchange of information in Unesco , where he worked towards universal bibliographical control . |
| 2 | Before Buddy beckoned , he worked on various sea cruises as well as appearing in the touring version of Showboat . |
| 3 | In 1971 Keith transferred to BNFL where he worked on many projects including the Waste Treatment Plant , Fuel Fabrication Plant , Salt Evaporation Plant and the Sludge Retrieval Project . |
| 4 | As a result of his work , a number of viruses causing disease in plants , animals ( he worked on foot-and-mouth disease ) , and humans were first observed . |
| 5 | At intervals throughout the next months he worked on this material , in preparation for his show at the Lefevre Gallery in September 1951 and for other exhibitions . |
| 6 | He was , after all , the man who brought Richard and Judy to the nation 's screens when he worked on This Morning at Granada . |
| 7 | From boyhood he worked on local farms and became an itinerant Methodist preacher . |
| 8 | From 1843 he worked on marine engines with Robert Napier [ q.v. ] on Clydeside , doing installation work on four early Cunard liners . |
| 9 | He worked through various grades , finishing with a very fine flour paper . |
| 10 | ‘ He worked under considerable pressure and was concerned with other people 's problems as well as his own . ’ |
| 11 | For a few months in the summer of 1939 he worked at 2 Caxton Street , Westminster , alongside L. D. Grand , a Woolwich contemporary who ran the then inadmissible section D of the secret service . |
| 12 | He worked for five years on preparing the case before committing suicide out of bitter frustration . |
| 13 | In the short period before joining Douglas Reyburn , he worked for five months as an administrator with the National Savings Bank . |
| 14 | Previously he worked for nineteen years in Kirkcaldy as a Shift Manager . |
| 15 | The doctor , who died last summer , broke health service guidelines when he worked for six shifts in a casualty department without warning the hospital involved , it was claimed . |
| 16 | A year later he worked for six months for the Eastern Health and Social Services Board in the Belfast area . |
| 17 | Now a qualified CA , he worked for six years in the Middle East , mainly in Palestine/Israel and the Lebanon . |
| 18 | A year later he worked for six months in the Belfast area . |
| 19 | He worked for many years with Darlington firm Paton and Baldwin , rising to the position of chairman of sales before his retirement . |
| 20 | Brin was issued with false documents to fool the Germans and he worked for 5 months with the resistance , helping allied servicemen to escape along the so called Comet line ; a 1,500 mile route across Europe from Holland through Belgium and France , on through Spain to the safety of Gibraltar . |
| 21 | Brin was issued with false documents to fool the Germans and he worked for 5 months with the resistance , helping allied servicemen to escape along the so called Comet line ; a 1,500 mile route across Europe from Holland through Belgium and France , on through Spain to the safety of Gibraltar . |
| 22 | ‘ He worked for British Intelligence , but he was a double agent . |
| 23 | He worked for three years with Sir Samuel Canning [ q.v. ] , |
| 24 | A director of Courtaulds Textiles , he was equally well known in Courtaulds , where he worked for 25 years before the textiles demerger in 1990 . |
| 25 | In the 1960s he worked for several years in industry , including a period as Chief Architect at Camus , before being appointed Head of the Architectural Division at the National Building Agency . |
| 26 | I knew nothing really about the behind-the-scenes activities of missions working in remote islands , but the Australian representative , Brian Parker , explained that he worked for several missions of different denominations , arranging facilities , transfer of funds , booking hotels for newcomers and whatever might be needed . |
| 27 | He worked for several years at the British Rail Works in Swindon , where he was regularly exposed to asbestos . |
| 28 | When he came out he worked for some years at a stud-farm at Henley ( Suffolk ) ; then he went back to smithing and worked for many years at Needham Market , a large village near Ipswich : |
| 29 | In 1898 he worked for some months in Naples on the evolution of small sharks , and then became a demonstrator in the natural history department of St Andrews University . |
| 30 | Born in Devon in 1954 , Andrew Mudge left school at the age of fifteen and did nine years ' service in the Navy before becoming Gardener for the Trust at Castle Drogo where he worked for seven years . |