Example sentences of "[pers pn] work [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The college says the exercise will build up the young people 's confidence and help them to work as a team . |
| 2 | I asked them to work for a loose confederation of equal republics , largely self-governing , but with certain specified powers on a federal basis . |
| 3 | ‘ He brings considerable outside experience and proven ability in defining practical business strategies and putting them to work in a market environment , ’ Mr Hugh Smith said . |
| 4 | Erm in actual fact I do n't w I work in a non-catholic school . |
| 5 | Well it , it , at least it 's gold , I mean , I , I , I was in the jewellery trade when I first left school , between school and national service I worked at a manufacturing jewellers in Birmingham and I 've never really gone along with the idea that nine carat is actually gold . |
| 6 | It brought back sad memories of when I worked as a kennel maid . |
| 7 | After being off work ( I worked as a driving instructor and sitting was the worst position to be in ) for six weeks the pain was no better , if anything it was worse . |
| 8 | In my youth ( many years ago ) I worked as a redcoat at Butlin 's in Bognor Regis and used to be House Captain of York where we trained teams of holidaymakers to go as fast as possible . |
| 9 | For two years I worked as a residential officer in old people 's homes in addition to my academic work . |
| 10 | I worked as a researcher for him for so long I became part of the furniture , I really did . |
| 11 | Yet to give instant opinions on the long term impact of the many educational reports , speeches , Parliamentary debates , learned researches , books , ideas and happenings which marked the years through which I worked as a teacher was quite impossible . |
| 12 | When I worked as a primary school teacher I sometimes retrieved that feeling with a particular clarity , walking between the tables on the hard floor , all the little looms working but needing my constant adjustment . |
| 13 | I worked as a dress machinist . |
| 14 | Before the hon. Gentleman gets up , let me say that I worked as a probation officer in the King 's Cross area , which was one of the most difficult areas for homelessness in the 1970s . |
| 15 | Before I was elected to the House , I worked as a solicitor in a law centre in Leicester where I dealt with many immigration cases . |
| 16 | ‘ The idea came to me because as a 15-year-old I worked as a plumber in churches and was impressed by the windows , ’ said Dave . |
| 17 | Many years ago I worked as a Time and Motion Study ( Work Study ) officer in industry , where the question was always : why ca n't all workers produce the output achieved by the best workers ? |
| 18 | During this period I worked as a computer programmer in Accra for a year . |
| 19 | While waiting for my O-level results I worked as a part-time crew member in a restaurant . |
| 20 | ‘ … after that I worked as a secretary . |
| 21 | I worked as a lodge boy . |
| 22 | ‘ I remember being fascinated by the story when I worked for a while in the Royal Library . |
| 23 | ‘ I worked for a bit when I was about eighteen . |
| 24 | After I left university , I worked for a Black community project and joined a Black socialist group . |
| 25 | I worked for a photographic company |
| 26 | It 's not as if I worked for a large network news show . |
| 27 | Then I was able to er go for my own self , you know and er I went on doing locks , one thing and another , best I could and all that sort of thing and I worked for a , a bloke what was in there er be a little bloke but he was the best locksmith in the shop and I went to help him and er he used to give me all the to do and this and that and the other . |
| 28 | I worked for a month then I went to the dyers and cleaners and I came home to Ipswich in the , on the Easter time and I started work as a turnboy on the dredger at Ipswich at thirty five shillings a week for fi sixty six and a half hours a week , starting from Monday morning at six o'clock to six o'clock Monday night . |
| 29 | I worked for a , for a like a , it 's a money brokers in , in London but exactly the same stockbroking , and it was exactly like the film , you know , they had this , they had this room , like they had one of those long rooms as well you know with all the desks and computers and stuff but they had this one enclosed off room where all the dealers sat round this massive like circular console type table , and like they were all under thirty but like overweight , all c driving Porsches and taking coke and shit like this and right they just , they got into the office at something like six in the morning like I 'd get in at nine and I 'd be , be wandering around they 'd just have their trousers open , shoes off , |
| 30 | In 1987 I worked with a chief inspector who had just returned from university having read for a Bramshill scholarship in what he called ‘ black letter law ’ . |