Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] work [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of the hours I worked at the newspaper office I hardly ever saw any television . |
| 2 | For some months I worked in the Information Department of the British Embassy , where I was engaged in propaganda , which included writing leaders for the Iraq Times . |
| 3 | We shall join them in trying to root out open and covert subsidies on the Continent which work against the principle of the single market and which put British firms at a disadvantage . ’ |
| 4 | This is a partnership which works to the benefit of the patient . |
| 5 | It would be difficult indeed to argue against the T & g being allowed to merge into the G M B. This organization represents peoples who work in the same type of companies , very often within the same workplaces that we work . |
| 6 | In future the computer expert will be the outsider who works for the manufacturer or as an independent adviser . |
| 7 | Then the fortunate staff who are still employed and they 're regarded as fortunate that you 've still got a job , because that 's what the management use repeatedly to professional people like nurses , sisters and other professional organizations who work within the Health Service , you 're very lucky to have a job . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Other winners of the award , sponsored by Reckitt and Colman , included Cherrill Hicks , a freelance journalist who works on The Independent 's health page , for her book Who Cares ; Looking After People at Home . |
| 10 | When you start in public relations , you need to meet journalists who work on the newspapers : press receptions , product launches , pubs around Fleet Street , the Press Club — there are many ways to do this . |
| 11 | The journalists who worked for the popular newspapers were only concerned to please their readers , and the truth was irrelevant . |
| 12 | Jim Byrne is a physicist who work as the university . |
| 13 | and his , his er son was one of the lads who worked in the office doing the middle turn , you see , and er I do n't know if he 's still alive . |
| 14 | That no similar slogan has come from the car workers is important , and is tied up with the fact that ‘ the car plants for the car workers ’ makes no sense to the lads who work on the line . |
| 15 | Railwaymen who worked in the area had been so overcome by a feeling of evil that pervaded a particular location that they refused to work the night-shift that involved going near the place in question . |
| 16 | The Carlton Girls , one of the many Tiller troupes who worked on the exhausting cine-variety circuits |
| 17 | According to Ken he worked in the old Government Commission , which was tucked away in the back somewhere , until the present Government wound it up and the Cabinet Office took over its functions . |
| 18 | The main issues in the by-election campaign which worked to the disadvantage of the governing Conservative Party were the community charge ( poll tax ) being introduced in England and Wales at the beginning of April [ see below ] , high interest and mortgage rates [ see also p. 37165 ] , reform of the National Health Service [ see pp. 36503 ; 37158 ] , and education reforms [ see pp. 36502 ; 37158 ] . |
| 19 | Half the children had parents who worked in the evening , anyway , and the other half left their children to decide for themselves . |
| 20 | Do you know Maggie who works in the paper shop ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Erm some lady who works for the council or something . |
| 23 | She is your wife , not an automaton who works around the place . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | One girl who works at the Space Center seems almost beside herself — she was planning to come to tonight 's gig , but after a late night last week her parents ( strict Christians ) grounded her and took away her ticket . |
| 27 | First , Matthew 's secretary , the girl who works in the office next door , turned up for work as usual this morning ; she lives a few miles out and she knew nothing of what had happened . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Well , ’ said Helen , ‘ I do know a girl who works in the outer office there , and we do sometimes meet up for lunch and I could try to put her on to it … |
| 29 | ‘ There 's a girl who works in the hospital who I think might … |
| 30 | The girl who worked in the garden . |