Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] work [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Me Mum works at Rayner 's — they make anoraks and that . |
| 2 | My Mum works for Jane in there , in the alarm business and Jane paid me five pounds . |
| 3 | I said I was not commencing duties until the next day as my girlfriend worked in Richmond and I had arranged to see her , which I had , by phone . |
| 4 | My husband works in computers as well . |
| 5 | It 's what my friend working in prostitution meant when she said she lost her self-respect when her husband was attracted to her colleague whom she saw as inferior to herself . |
| 6 | I could n't possibly allow my wife to work for men who ca n't keep their minds on the job and their hands to themselves . ’ |
| 7 | My father working at home with his mother and farming this l twelve acre holding and my grandmother erm sub-letted the the park for him . |
| 8 | It 's a very good paper , and I approve of its line , which is important : so many of my friends work for papers they ca n't stand . ’ |
| 9 | Yeah , my dad works in Scotland . |
| 10 | ‘ My lodger works for NCPR . ’ |
| 11 | In Britain the Communist Party returned to its attempts to work with sections of the Labour Party . |
| 12 | One of the common threads that have emerged from my dicussions has been the necessity , when considering how the law might be reformed , of tackling the question of protecting employees from being obliged by their employers to work on Sundays , against their wishes , or incurring any penalty for not doing so . |
| 13 | Voluntary organizations will need to demonstrate their willingness to work with people with severe long-term problems if they are going to contribute seriously to the real work of a service , and they will need professional support and training to do this more arduous work . |
| 14 | By mid 1992 , over 40 hauliers will have shred the QiA workshop and will be taking the training down to their drivers working on ICI contracts . |
| 15 | The first typographers were silver- and goldsmiths : their skill working with metals was needed to produce moulds from which lead characters could be cast . |
| 16 | The vast bulk of lawyers spend their lives working for business interests , and top lawyers work overwhelmingly for giant corporations who alone can afford their fees . |
| 17 | Local men returned from their winter working in Jumla Bazaar . |
| 18 | Feminism faded , women were domesticated and their right to work with coal was finally extinguished . |
| 19 | The Sinhalese were thought lazy because of their reluctance to work for planters , but the poor living conditions of estate labourers are ample explanation of the failure to recruit Sinhalese workers . |
| 20 | She still balances her job working in insurance with her part time modelling work . |
| 21 | Its buyers work with suppliers worldwide to initiate exclusive fashionable designs . |
| 22 | A few tourists were aboard ; a couple with walking gear and their spaniel dog with one blind eye staring out of the low window , and a Canadian , rather loud , who had struck up conversation with a young Lewis woman who was coming back from visiting her husband working in Libya . |
| 23 | As a result , software vendors will have to ensure their applications work under NT . |
| 24 | Darlington magistrates heard the 14-year-old was involved with thefts from three handbags while their owners worked in shops . |
| 25 | Since financial , technical , and geographical constraints did not permit efforts to be made to bring their sewage works into compliance with the existing standards ( even if time had been available ) , the only other means of demonstrably maintaining compliance was for the agencies to change the standards to fit the existing discharges . |
| 26 | The horizontal heavy oil engine was built in the late 1920s by Fielding and Platt Ltd at their Atlas Works in Gloucester . |
| 27 | After a study of academic enterprise in the US , Matthew Bullock of Barclays Bank , concludes that specific ‘ technology transfer mechanisms ’ are less important than the willingness of universities to allow their academics to work for industry ‘ on the side ’ . |
| 28 | From then until 1891 he was apprenticed under ( Sir ) John Aspinall [ q.v. ] , chief mechanical engineer of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway at its Horwich works near Bolton . |
| 29 | It is also good at containing costs and farming out its staff to work on site rather than keeping them in expensive offices of its own . |
| 30 | It was in 1851 that the Great Northern Railway established its locomotive works in Doncaster , and twelve years later the amalgamation of a number of railway companies led to the first regional monopoly , the North Eastern Railway , this business being engineered mainly by George Hudson , the ‘ Railway King ’ . |