Example sentences of "worked in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another fake defector operating at the same time was Top Hat ( whose real name remains unknown ) , who also planted a lot of false information on the West through the Americans but did in 1965 expose the spy Frank Bossard , who worked in the Missile Guidance Branch at the Air Ministry and had been selling secrets to the GRU for some while . |
| 2 | Given the Association 's fall in membership since the late 1940s , and given the views canvassed by some who worked in the field , exemplified by Bruce in The Highway , there were real fears that the WEA would lose its status as a Responsible Body . |
| 3 | Some of them worked in the field , he understood , but these were the younger , smarter ones who had been trained as cipher clerks and radio operators , usually to serve a male agent . |
| 4 | Pauline added : ‘ He was a great performer , and worked and worked in the clubs . ’ |
| 5 | Steve never worked in the shipyard , but he knew what it was like from Dad and Grandad and all their mates . |
| 6 | Mr Frans Swarttouw , the chairman of Fokker , worked in the port and shipping business for 20 years before reviving the ailing Dutch aeroplane maker . |
| 7 | Periodically he returned to his Australian roots , but for long periods he worked in the UK . |
| 8 | Allhusen 's education is obscure ; he worked in the grain trade first at Rostock , then from 1825 at Newcastle upon Tyne with two older brothers . |
| 9 | I think it 's sometimes falsely represented as being academic or being unreal or as not relating to the masses of women 's lives , and it 's out of my own experience I just want to be clear about this , it 's out of my own experience as an incest survivor , as a pornography survivor , my father worked in the porn industry , that I came to revolutionary feminism . |
| 10 | During the 1980s Margaret Boushel , Claire Debenham , Lisa Dresner and Anna Gorbach worked in the London borough of Islington within social services for pre-school children . |
| 11 | Two daughters also worked in the ovens department — Mary Ward for 31 years and Nellie Smith for 14 years . |
| 12 | Was n't that Cynthia , who worked in the deli ? |
| 13 | I worked in the communities that experienced the most painful impact of the first of the Government 's recessions in the 1980s . |
| 14 | She remembered when she was the only child at home , playing with her dolls on the rag rug before the fire and listening to the purring of the kettle on the hob , her mother singing as she worked in the back kitchen , waiting for the others to come home . |
| 15 | I was taught that when I worked in the grocery warehouse . |
| 16 | In addition Mr. and Mrs. O'Brien 's son , who also worked in the company , was to provide certain security , but nothing turns on his involvement and I need not go into the details . |
| 17 | In the summer of 1914 Braque was once more at Sorgues , while Picasso spent his time between Sorgues and Avignon , where he worked in the company of André Derain . |
| 18 | ‘ I worked in the country for a while and met some people who were trying to recreate Woodstock . ’ |
| 19 | Born in the Anderston district of Glasgow and brought up in Drumchapel , Miller worked in the Clyde shipyards before signing for Rangers . |
| 20 | For most people in Britain , the Medical Research Council 's study , published in February 1990 , revealing the strong possibility that fathers who worked in the Sellafield reprocessing plant in Cumbria had passed leukaemia to their children in their sperm , moved speculation out of the realms of the circumstantial into that of the confirmed . |
| 21 | He was moody all the time , with a flashing temper , and when Changez was at home , nursing his bad arm , Anwar came to me as I worked in the store-room . |
| 22 | Mr Gardner previously worked in the Preston area and more recently with Zurich Municipal in Manchester . |
| 23 | Syl was trying with kindling glances and doubles entendres to enthral the girl who worked in the gallery . |
| 24 | As someone who worked in the BMC when it was at its height , and who has very long acquaintance with both protagonists , I can vouch for the veracity of Dennis 's story as told here , and can only lament the nit-picking which has continued even after its publication in this book . |
| 25 | Born and raised in Merthyr Tydfil , he emigrated to Australia as a young man and worked in the construction industry until he injured his back 12 years later and was forced to reconsider his working future . |
| 26 | They have precious little in common , except that they both worked in the construction industry before journeying to London . |
| 27 | Ifor worked in the mines , played his rugby and read poetry : dangerous work , hard sport and learning ; a masculine ideal come down unalloyed from Ancient Greece to Pontrhydyfen . |
| 28 | And tonight he was going to meet a magnificent girl called Jane Ashton who worked in the Y.M.C.A. canteen in the village of Chavigny . |
| 29 | James Carkesse worked in the Navy Office of Samuel Pepys . |
| 30 | In the mornings he worked in the kitchen while his aunt baked or cooked or sewed ; here in the evenings he absorbed the sense of the impact of new industries on an older more settled way of life which , much later , found its way into the stories and sketches of his best Welsh work , Rest and Unrest and Light and Twilight . |