Example sentences of "[noun prp] work [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 A lot of the members told me I was very good — I could pull clubs well and read greens — and I should try going to the Bing Crosby to work for a pro in the tournament .
2 erm many people came to Kuwait to work for a short term and after a while they realised it 's fine so they continued to stay there for a long time , and that is the haven that we were talking about .
3 Ten years later , George had become a woollen cloth dresser but Smith ( as he was normally known ) walked 3 miles each day to Samuel Fox 's new steelworks at Stocksbridge to work as a steel temperer .
4 He now works in a group set up by the Bishop of Ely to work on a better understanding of market forces than that shown in Faith in the City , he says .
5 Picasso worked from a photograph he had taken of his friend and dealer who recorded that Picasso nevertheless demanded some twenty sittings .
6 She knew that Sue worked as a nurse four nights a week , going on duty some time after the children had gone to bed in the evening , and returning at seven in the morning .
7 She and Earl Spencer worked on a book for the Greater London Council called What is Our Heritage ? and soon found they had much in common .
8 Born in Brno , Czechoslovakia , in 1929 , Kundera worked as a labourer and a jazz musician before turning to writing .
9 Richard worked as a panel beater at a garage in Frampton on Severn .
10 Richard worked as a panel beater .
11 It is already known that Strauss worked to a system of keys associated with particular characters and situations , but Professor Gilliam identifies his primary concern in Elektra as ‘ establishing a sense of motivic continuity in the orchestral line ’ , thus lending extra point to Strauss 's description of Salome as ‘ a symphony in the medium of drama ’ .
12 During our last barbecue Lucy worked with a willing heart .
13 In 1323–5 Ramsey worked as a mason at St Stephen 's chapel in Westminster Palace , but seems to have been identical with the Master William de Ramesseye in charge of works at Norwich Cathedral in 1326–31 .
14 Following nine years service in the RAF , Ken worked for a number of companies , before joining Haven Automation in 1979 as an instrument engineer .
15 After that came a stint in the ambulance service , while Jean worked for a catering business .
16 All these assumptions and claims are challenged by John Scott , even though Scott works within a broadly Marxist framework .
17 Mr Samson works as a technician and driver for Durham county council museum education service at Darlington .
18 THE heartbroken mother of transplant donor Paula Moss is leaving England to work as a missionary .
19 Later he returned to England to work in a POW camp :
20 Gilbert was eight years younger than Gould , but the two must have met earlier , for by 1828 , at the age of 16 , Gilbert was recruited by Gould to work as a taxidermist at the Zoological Society .
21 One dealer left Harvard to work for a Continental outfit called European Equity Research .
22 After serving in the US Army in Vietnam in 1969-71 , Gore worked as a journalist before being elected to the House of Representatives in 1976 and to the Senate in 1984 and 1990 .
23 His father , Dr John Gore worked as a nuclear physicist at Berkley Nuclear Laboratories .
24 Sumner worked in a wide range of other media which included textiles , wallpapers , tapestries , tesserae , painted gesso , and stained glass .
25 The incidents , which occurred while Tunstall worked as a postman in Darlington last October , came to light after an internal investigation .
26 Simon worked as a tailor 's presser , not a highly-paid job .
27 From 1910 to 1921 Machen worked as a reporter for the Evening News .
28 After completing his studies at Glasgow University , Gavin worked for a few months at a salmon farm near Ft William , checking for virus infection .
29 She was outside her father 's social club at Pentre , South Glamorgan , where Mr Browning worked as a bouncer .
30 Eddie Gilfoyle worked as a hospital technician at Murrayfield Hospital at Thingwall , Wirral .
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