Example sentences of "work as a [noun] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then in his fifth year at the school , when he ought to have been aiming for his school certificate which was the next and essential passport for that golden educated future , he left abruptly to work as a haberdasher 's assistant in the local Co-operative store . |
| 2 | Both left school at fourteen : my father to work as a butcher 's messenger boy , my mother to learn machining in a shirt factory . |
| 3 | As soon as he was of age he took himself off to London to work as a merchant 's clerk . |
| 4 | Now that two of you are married and a couple of you are starting families , does the band work as a lads ' escape ? |
| 5 | Simon worked as a tailor 's presser , not a highly-paid job . |
| 6 | Leo had dragged himself up from the East End , where his father , a first-generation Jewish immigrant from the Ukraine , had worked as a tailor 's cutter ; James , on the other hand , had had one of those privileged English upbringings . |
| 7 | The first was a Carol Pearson , of Muswell Hill , interesting to him because she had worked as a hairdresser 's improver at a shop in Eastcheap . |
| 8 | She had worked as a children 's nurse in Wirral hospitals for 20 years before taking a post with the local social services department , assisting young families in need . |
| 9 | Mack Sennett had come from a New England working-class background and he had himself worked as a plumber 's mate . |
| 10 | After three years working as a photographer 's assistant , Jason decided to get out of the ‘ rat race ’ and joined ecologically-minded art group Reactivart . |
| 11 | Her father had come from Lithuania and started working as a tailor 's presser , then he ran a clothes shop in the parlour of his house in Strangeways . |
| 12 | This list is not intended to be exhaustive , and certainly does not include areas where your nursing qualification is used indirectly , such as working as a children 's nanny or as a sales representative for a pharmaceutical or product manufacturer . |
| 13 | The boys , of course , were still living at home , Arthur working as a plumber 's apprentice and Ted and Sam still at school . |
| 14 | That — arrogant brute had implied that her mother had taken his family for a ride financially , yet , according to Ruth Russell , Isabelle had been pregnant and penniless , reduced to working as a mother 's help when Hugh met her . |