Example sentences of "[pron] work [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I worked at the London Palace Hotel as a chambermaid for three years . |
| 2 | Earlies er when I worked at the Ford Motor Company it meant getting from Ilford to Dagenham and starting on a machine at six A M in the morning , in the middle of winter or the middle of summer . |
| 3 | Then I worked for the BBC — my favourite charity , really . |
| 4 | I worked with the FBI , the US Secret Service , the thirty-one diplomatic groups and the individual protection teams . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , ’ said Caspar , and then glanced over his shoulder as if to make sure no one was listening , ‘ well , the truth of it is , that I work for the Gruagach . |
| 6 | And one day Uncle Edouard said he might let me work on the Aston Martin . |
| 7 | I feel we will 've achieved significant progress if we have turned , I did n't know you worked in the United Kingdom , into it 's good to know that the rights and needs of children are just as important to you in the United Kingdom as they are overseas . |
| 8 | Davies was also skilled at constructing local earthworks to prevent flooding by the Severn and his earned him his first big contract from the Montgomeryshire Public Works Engineer , Thomas Penson ( presumably the same Penson of Oswestry who worked with the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway and was responsible for the design of stations including the recently refurbished Gobowen station and Shrewsbury 's joint station ) . |
| 9 | Chinese authorities have executed a bank accountant who embezzled more than $175,000 in the country 's first such case of computer fraud , the Xinhua Daily Telegraph newspaper reported yesterday : Shi Biao , who worked for the Jilin branch of the state-run Agricultural Bank of China , was found to have siphoned funds to private accounts from August to November 1991 , and he and accomplice Yu Lixin were arrested as they were preparing to leave China through the southern economic zone of Shenzhen , bordering Hong Kong ; it was the first case of bank embezzlement via computer in China ; China imposes the death penalty for a variety of offences , ranging from bicycle theft to panda poaching . |
| 10 | Then Tom , who worked for the Bryant and May match firm , will splash out on a greenhouse and a garden shed for himself . |
| 11 | He was flown to America and during his debriefing exposed two Russian spies , Edward Howard , who worked for the CIA , and Ronald Pelton , who had worked for the NSA . |
| 12 | WABI was written by people who worked at the BIOS house Phoenix Technologies and later at Integrated Technologies Inc . |
| 13 | ‘ We ’ turned out to be a husband who worked at the London HQ of an oil company and two children , a boy of twelve and a girl of fifteen , both at boarding school . |
| 14 | Four porters who worked at the Heathrow Penta Hotel refused to meet or greet guests , deliver keys to rooms or move luggage if a guest transferred to a new room . |
| 15 | For most people in Britain , the Medical Research Council 's study , published in February 1990 , revealing the strong possibility that fathers who worked in the Sellafield reprocessing plant in Cumbria had passed leukaemia to their children in their sperm , moved speculation out of the realms of the circumstantial into that of the confirmed . |
| 16 | And tonight he was going to meet a magnificent girl called Jane Ashton who worked in the Y.M.C.A. canteen in the village of Chavigny . |
| 17 | As someone who worked in the BMC when it was at its height , and who has very long acquaintance with both protagonists , I can vouch for the veracity of Dennis 's story as told here , and can only lament the nit-picking which has continued even after its publication in this book . |
| 18 | One was Morey Bernstein , who worked in the United States , and the other was Arnall Bloxham , who worked in Britain . |
| 19 | According to Mark Siegel , who worked in the Carter White House , With Reagan in the executive mansion the atmosphere was different ; members of congress were pleased to have their telephone calls returned ; where possible they were provided with assistance and they were carefully plyed with the ‘ small potatoes ’ of presidential patronage . |
| 20 | A Mr J. Franklin from Beachampton , who worked in the Smithy , used to trap and bring rabbits to work every Monday morning when they were in season , for which he charged 2s 6d ( 12. ½p ) each . |
| 21 | Jed had provided some of it , Peter brought the Beaujolais Nouveau and the rest came from Tina 's current boyfriend , who worked in the Grog Blossom shop . |
| 22 | From 1976 to 1981 she worked at the Henley Centre for Forecasting , where she was responsible for UK economics forecasts , and manager of special studies . |
| 23 | She worked with the M.A.A.F. on grey squirrel control , now enjoys retirement and describes family life and the upbringing of two sons thus : ‘ It 's been a battlefield ! |
| 24 | She worked in the Paris office of the New York Herald Tribune for a while and later she went to Switzerland to work for the International Labour Office of the United Nations . |
| 25 | So how long were you working in the Llandudno power station ? |
| 26 | Quizzed on the allegation by shocked interviewer Nick Clark , he said : ‘ You work for the BBC . |
| 27 | Crackers and flares take on a whole new meaning when you work for the Olefines business . |
| 28 | We will consider you to be wasting ES time if you spend long or frequent periods of time talking about personal matters which have no relevance to you work for the ES . |
| 29 | These are binding on you while you work for the ES and after you leave the organisation , both at work and in your own time . |
| 30 | Oh yes , yes you know where you work in the Derbyshire Peaks , I had a guide here a few weeks ago , and I kept it , it 's upstairs , and it actually put the English Channel going up there , the Peak District . |