Example sentences of "man [pron] work [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The Crown lawyer said the court would hear that the probable target was a man who worked for the Environment Department and whose tasks also involved working at Ministry of Defence properties .
2 No , Mr Patel was very sorry , no , he had not seen the face of the man who worked on the car .
3 Her dog sniffed for a moment at the ankle of the young man who worked at the engine of his car .
4 When he did , the prim man who worked at the counter often inspected them and said , ‘ I doubt if this will come out , sir , but we 'll do our best . ’
5 So if you can imagine the food being cooked in there and if you like , plated up in here and while the butler , the man who works in the butlery or the buttery does the drink , the pantler , the man who looks after the bread is plating the food out there .
6 If it is hard to generalize about the pattern of farming , it is no easier to summarize the resources or standing of the men who worked on the land .
7 Well it 's interesting , actually , because I 've heard that before erm the piece that Audrey read out , and in fact erm someone in the City Council , a women in the City Council , put it on the front of her door and there was an outcry by many of the men who worked in the City Council .
8 The men who worked around the building acknowledged a secret circle that surrounded their camp Commandant and their camp KGB officer .
9 All the sounds of the valley end here in my room , and the women speak in front of me — of Hywel and Beuno and Elizabeth and me — and the men who work on the farm piss in the hedgerow in front of me because they all think I am dead .
10 The men who work in the hole say it is a pig to work there . ’
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