Example sentences of "[pron] worked [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For over twenty years I worked under the delusion that I was teaching maths . |
| 2 | ‘ I worked through the night to get them done and then drove to her house where she was confined to bed , ’ says Alan . |
| 3 | The particular one hundred words in this case categories as follows : this is the order in which I worked through the set . |
| 4 | I explained that I worked during the winter for a golf-mad stockbroker called Andrew Buccleuth whom I had met during my year on the amateur circuit . |
| 5 | Because of the hours I worked at the newspaper office I hardly ever saw any television . |
| 6 | The Wheel Tapper pub behind the railway station in Taunton was my haven when I worked at the art college there in the late 1960s and early 1970s . |
| 7 | For I worked at the council they were trying to make a road there then . |
| 8 | ‘ I worked at the Bank of Scotland on a three-week attachment in my fifth year at school , ’ he recalls . |
| 9 | I worked at the Star Club and some other clubs in Hamburg . |
| 10 | I worked at the billeting office until the school reopened . |
| 11 | After I left the council , I worked for the council for ten years and then I stopped the council in nineteen forty six for I I telled you that afore have I . |
| 12 | and I worked for the council so he spoke to me one day and he said , Will you cut the roads with a tractor and a mower . |
| 13 | I worked for the rest of the morning and in the late afternoon , rang Highbury to tell them I was safely back and ask how they fared . |
| 14 | ‘ The things I 've seen in them vats when I worked for the brewery . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ To begin with , I worked for the family , pushing the churns round the streets on the milk-cart , but then I got too old for that , and I applied for work with the Dock workers Guild at Jubilee Wharf . ’ |
| 16 | I 'd told her I worked for the Post and she said she 'd already told Rain all about it . ’ |
| 17 | It should be clear to anybody that the basic idea behind the prison system is corrupt and unjust , but the more I worked on the film , the more I understood how extreme the injustice was . |
| 18 | I worked on the course green-keeping in the winter at Birkdale , and spent all summer caddying . |
| 19 | Later on I worked on the twilight shift in a components factory and as our kids grew up people moved out and others moved in . |
| 20 | Denis and I worked on the show each morning and on our final evening we performed it in ninety degree heat for a deeply moved and even more deeply biased audience of mutual families . |
| 21 | Would n't leave me all through the following night as I worked on the glass . |
| 22 | I used sign language , and I worked on the assumption that all deaf people can lipread . |
| 23 | I worked on the tension suggested and under considerable tension on my part . |
| 24 | When I tired of writing press releases on new lube concepts I left Wartberg 's valve business to go to the Angstrom Corporation , where I worked on the launch of a new biscuit , the Pink Finger . |
| 25 | So I worked on the farm with Mr and Mrs Parks . |
| 26 | I worked in the kitchen scrubbing the pans . |
| 27 | He was moody all the time , with a flashing temper , and when Changez was at home , nursing his bad arm , Anwar came to me as I worked in the store-room . |
| 28 | I was taught that when I worked in the grocery warehouse . |
| 29 | And I worked in the pit bottom for a start , for about three or four months , in the pit bottom . |
| 30 | I worked in the factory and said it was for fun ; but it was n't — I did it because I needed to . ’ |