Example sentences of "worked [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He worked as an unhappy little boy on the quay , rolling barrels about and storing them in a warehouse , under orders from his father . |
| 2 | The Primo Levi who is read by Fernanda Eberstadt is a man who is unable to write about Jews — though he does in fact write about them with great sympathy , believers and unbelievers alike — and who has no feeling for people whose background and abilities are different from his own , though the joy of Levi 's work , for other readers , is very often that he has such feelings , that he knows himself to be , while also knowing himself not to be , an ordinary man , a worker , a man who worked as an industrial chemist and who was no less of a worker when he wrote books . |
| 3 | He joined the Communist Party in 1946 and worked as an economic consultant to the Cuban government in the mid-1960s . |
| 4 | From the mid-1850s Milner worked as an independent landscape gardener . |
| 5 | Sharon worked as an enrolled nurse at Gloucestershire Royal Hospitals Elderly Care Unit , where she was a popular member of staff . |
| 6 | She worked as an occupational therapist and listed gardening and walking as her hobbies . |
| 7 | In 1934 he joined the Irish Independent , with whom he worked for an eventful 50 years , latterly as its northern political editor . |
| 8 | Later , after four years in detention during the Mau Mau Emergency , he worked for an Indian workshop in Nairobi establishing himself as the pioneer manufacturer of bicycle carriers and foreguards . |
| 9 | All four , together with Althusser 's pupil , Michel Foucault , worked within an epistemological tradition which was critical of the positivism which , up to that time , had dominated the history of the sciences . |
| 10 | Luciana Mottola Colban discussed the plans with Danièle Giraudy , one of the minds behind the Pompidou Centre , where she worked in an educational role for eight years , before becoming director of the Musée Picasso at Antibes , and then moving on to the Musée des Arts Decoratifs as Director in 1991 . |
| 11 | Frank now produced a pen which worked upon an unlikely scientific principle , possibly to do with the transperambulation of pseudo-cosmic anti-matter . |
| 12 | We worked at an unheard-of pace . |
| 13 | The works were owned by the local rector , William Levett , tenanted by Ralphe Hogge and worked by an exiled French specialist , Peter Baude . |