Example sentences of "[Wh pn] work [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second story came from Branson himself , and arose from a tip-off from a journalist named Carla Dobson who worked as the assistant to the Daily Mail gossip-columnist Nigel Dempster . |
| 2 | Malcolm , who worked as the ‘ Hyster Driver ’ in the warehouse , is shown shaking hands with Alec Shaw ( right ) , Warehouse Manager , together with many friends who gathered to wish him farewell . |
| 3 | Both end walls have paintings of 1710 by the Jesuit , Tausch , a copyist who worked on the cartoons of the Italian fresco painter , Andrea del Pozzo . |
| 4 | The Carlton Girls , one of the many Tiller troupes who worked on the exhausting cine-variety circuits |
| 5 | However , the superintendents and foremen who worked on the factory floor , many having themselves been skilled machinists , sided with the operators and consequently nothing happened to change the balance of power . |
| 6 | Had he pressed on he might none the less have taken Newcastle , which contained many Jacobite sympathisers , but while he dallied , turning aside to Hexham , 15 miles [ 24 km ] west of the city , the Newcastle magistrates called out the militia and trained bands , mobilised a force of 700 tough keelmen , who worked on the lighters in the harbour , patched up the ancient city wall , though they lacked cannon to defend it , and bricked up the gates . |
| 7 | In theory , those who worked on the farms were capable of supporting themselves . |
| 8 | Large areas of the South and West remained untouched by the growth of the manufacturing industries , and in spite of the stimulating effect of the Napoleonic Wars upon certain sections of the economy , most of those who worked on the land steadily became poorer . |
| 9 | I did have a chin tuck , and the lady who worked on the book with me said , ‘ Now , Elizabeth , you know we 're going to be together for months and we have to be absolutely honest with each other . |
| 10 | No , Mr Patel was very sorry , no , he had not seen the face of the man who worked on the car . |
| 11 | The owner , Christian Brisset told us that there was a journalist in Cherbourg who had written five books on the history of the town during the war — Paul Ingouf — who worked on the local newspaper La Presse de la Manche , was an historian and kept extensive records . |
| 12 | That is a throw-back to my days as a junior reporter when I used to play with another junior who worked on the rival weekly , the North Devon Journal Herald His name was David Vine , later to become the BBC 's commentator on snooker and winter sports . |
| 13 | There were only half a dozen sergeants in the mess , but the numbers were made up by the civilian engineers who worked on the project . |
| 14 | When I er er were in the tool room at , Newark at the age of twenty one plus , you see , not twenty two er I was approached then by a shop steward who worked on the bench , was a fitter . |
| 15 | ‘ You 'd have to get hold of someone who worked on the project to tell you the details . |
| 16 | Reynolds said , ‘ You say that of all the people who worked on the project , none of them are still here ? ’ |
| 17 | The Conservatives , after flirting with the idea of a Labour style ‘ shadow ’ agency of volunteers , is back with Saatchi , but a Saatchi where many of the key personnel who worked on the Tory account in previous years ( notably Michael Dobbs , the agency 's former deputy chairman and once a Tory Central Office staffer himself ) have departed . |
| 18 | He may have been the ‘ Maister Vartu ’ who worked on the church of St Mary-at-Hill in London in 1502 , and the ‘ Vertu the mason ’ paid for a new window at St Anthony 's Hospital , Threadneedle Street , London . |
| 19 | The gipsy , who worked on the farm ? ’ he cried . |
| 20 | She had to be able to liaise with the local authorities , professionals in the social services , and people with specialist knowledge who worked on the Advisory Boards . |
| 21 | He could imagine the unfamiliarity of such an approach to a policeman used to witnesses who worked on the fairly simple patterns of response found on the Cumbermound council estate . |
| 22 | The aim was to give an impression of the atmosphere of the line and its district A particular point made was that the BCRS wishes to contact people who worked on the line or have other personal reminiscences of it . |
| 23 | We wish those who worked on the interim advisory committee well and we look forward to the next phase in the determination of teachers ' pay which is the work of the pay review body under the chairmanship of Sir Graham Day . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The possible movement of a mosaicist from this region to Trier is also a conventional explanation ( if a partial one ) of the eventual fate of the mosaicists who worked on the finest and final pavement , at Woodchester : in the Palastplatz in Trier a panel similar to one of the geometric panels of the ambulatory of the Woodchester Orpheus was found ( Parlasca 1959 , pI . |
| 26 | Design faults at the Susquehanna nuclear power station in Pennsylvania would make it impossible for operators to control a nuclear accident , according to engineers who worked on the plant 's construction . |
| 27 | These are made by a gentleman called Adrian er erm who worked on the house as a as a labourer er but was so taken with it all he took to becoming a medieval furniture maker , has been ever since . |
| 28 | Just then , Donna , who worked on the front desk , came trotting across the lawn towards them . |
| 29 | The family of a murder victim have accepted a donation to a trust fund in their son 's name from detectives who worked on the case . |
| 30 | Graham Evans , of Blundellsands , was an apprentice who worked on the Spirit of Merseyside and later served aboard as bosun . |