Example sentences of "[noun] worked [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1960s , an astronomer named Gerald Hawkins worked on another idea . |
| 2 | Travis worked with impersonal speed , stripping off all her wet clothes , taking extra care with her foot and rubbing her dry with one of his own , only slightly damp , shirts . |
| 3 | Ann worked in British West Hartlepool : severely shelled during World War I , home of Andy Cap and where they hung a shipwrecked monkey in Napoleonic times , in the belief that the poor beast was a Frenchman . |
| 4 | Ms Torcato worked for several newspapers and magazines in India and , more recently , in Gulf countries . |
| 5 | Herschel worked always by himself , while Hubble worked in professional observatories that were the world 's finest for his kind of astronomy . |
| 6 | Achille Hébuterne worked as chief cashier in a perfumery . |
| 7 | erm , cos Mary that still works in there she , her husband worked for either Mr Henry , I ca n't remember his name , the man that owned it , and I think , I think perhaps they were brothers or something , she , her husband owns it now it 's Freyers or something now |
| 8 | A vigorous and intellectually acute controversialist , Haldane worked with great energy to sustain the Protestant character of the English Church and nation and hence contributed substantially to the entrenched conservatism of Victorian Anglican Evangelicalism . |
| 9 | Coverdale worked on generating team spirit and inter-dependence — including manoeuvres on Salisbury Plain that involved treasure hunts and making rope ladders . |
| 10 | Elvira worked for 11 years as a secondary school language and music teacher in Portugal before coming to England in 1986 . |
| 11 | In Manchester , Sheffield , Leeds , Liverpool and Cardiff the police and the NVA worked in close contact , closing brothels , prosecuting for obscenity and investigating cases of abduction . |
| 12 | When his general writing is examined it is clear that , notwithstanding the analytical distinction he makes in Law of the Constitution , Dicey worked within this tradition . |
| 13 | Bonsall was an important centre of framework knitting in Derbyshire , and one of the early workshops , where knitters worked in primitive factories instead of in their own homes , can still be seen . |
| 14 | In an attempt to reach a practical solution , Brunig and Klinge worked in Amazonian forest that was estimated to have some 700 plant species , excluding cryptogams , representing 70 families . |
| 15 | Soon the place was alive with their busy whirr as Leonie and one of her friends stitched samples ; to their accompaniment Hugo worked on new designs . |
| 16 | A. Geikie worked for 6 years before visiting headquarters . |
| 17 | Charles Fraser-Smith worked with 007 writer Ian Fleming during the second world war . |
| 18 | Mervyn Hayward worked for 46 years as a Coppersmith at the British Rail engineering works in Swindon . |
| 19 | Sheila worked at 97 Kingston on the cheese and butter counter from 1955 for 11 years until she left to start a family . |
| 20 | Paula worked for seven years in a biscuit factory in San Salvador , owned jointly by a Czech and a Salvadorean . |
| 21 | Because Linnaeus worked in western Europe , it tends to be the European form which is seen as typical in this sense ; and of course it is accidental which species in a group happens to be first described and hence seen as typical . |
| 22 | Mr Fisher worked for several years at the Squilver Quarry as office manager , and in his retirement served for a lengthy period as Hon. |
| 23 | With Courtaulds Norman worked for 15 years in Coventry , latterly for the Celon ( nylon ) division , before retiring through ill health in 1970 . |
| 24 | Asquith worked with unusual speed and intellectual certainty . |
| 25 | Town weavers in places like Manchester worked in small numbers in workshops . |
| 26 | Randy worked in close association with Grover Jackson to produce his custom guitars and this model was in fact a forerunner of the equally famous black version , which Jackson have previously made available as a signature model . |
| 27 | After their observations the VHWs worked in small groups to collate their observations and findings . |
| 28 | And er there r there are no real er gentry in Orkney you see , and you 'll always find that if anybody gets a a a Well as I said to one boy here , I said to him look here I said your old grandfather worked in that shop till his backside was hanging out his brigs . |
| 29 | Once the width between the eyes had been determined and marked out , George worked on both eyes ; that way , neither eye ends up larger than the other . |
| 30 | George worked from detailed plans , drawings and photographs of the Fort , employing a scale of 1:300 . |