Example sentences of "[verb] work at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since older miners were usually no longer fit to work at the coal-face and did less well-remunerated jobs on or near the surface , this meant that in old age — if they reached it — their pensions were to be a calculated on the basis of their more poorly paid years at work ! |
| 2 | A 100-strong team of scientists has been picked to work at the company 's laboratories at Caswell , Towcester , producing the first 3 inch diameter GaAs wafers in the UK . |
| 3 | Marion , who has worked at the Tour for the past two years and recently took over as Membership Secretary , says : ‘ We are pleased that so many girls want to join our Tour , but we are also anxious to ensure that they have thought through all the consequences and they are sure that they want to be a professional . |
| 4 | Tony Williams , whose family has worked at the craft for around 110 years in the Truro area , finds thatch is likely to be more secure than other types of roofing . |
| 5 | But Mr Evans , 57 , of Bryn , near Wigan , who has worked at the course since 1989 , was defended by the Aintree executive . |
| 6 | Dr Jopek , forty-one , completed his doctorate on German fifteenth-century alabasters in 1984 , and has worked at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg and for the episcopal administration and Amt für Denkmalpflege ( protection of monuments ) in Trier . |
| 7 | Andrew has worked at the factory for six years and is employed as a yarn storeman . |
| 8 | She has been a civil servant for over 30 years and has worked at the town 's county court for 24 years . |
| 9 | He began by doing seasonal work which involved working at the maltings during the winter and working in a brickyard during the summer . |
| 10 | It seemed to work at the time . |
| 11 | The dufflecoat would have been the one he had worn when he first came to work at the Establishment . |
| 12 | Later he came to work at the house which was his first entry into Local Government . |
| 13 | I 'm not looking to work at the CFTC issue within the AFBD . |
| 14 | I did n't choose to work at the complex . |
| 15 | Sandra , but she preferred Sandy , told us that she 'd worked at the Exhilarator for five months but was just biding her time before she could move away from her mother and get her own place in London . |
| 16 | But it would have been costly because he 'd worked at the paper for so long . |
| 17 | The bulbs in this unit actually stop working at the end of their useful lives which can be up to five years . |
| 18 | When he married he rented a rambling red-brick Georgian house two miles away and bicycled to work at the forge most days . |
| 19 | A hundred and thirty staff at a factory destroyed by fire have volunteered to work at the company 's plant in France . |
| 20 | But the H S E says the cluster of leukaemia cases is confined mainly to the nearby village of Seascale and to children whose fathers began working at the plant before nineteen sixty five . |
| 21 | The Saturday shift always seemed to drag on endlessly for the elderly night watchman and he envied people who did not have to work at the weekends . |
| 22 | Molly and George needed to work at the adjustment . |
| 23 | Tony had just returned from Iceland , his epic cycle tour , and I was back from Switzerland , buoyed up by time spent working at the Research Station on the Jungfraujoch . |
| 24 | as if my whole life , he wrote , had been spent working at the glass and at the same time had been spent doing nothing at all . |
| 25 | I know it sounds crackers but we preferred it , " said one of the pit brow lasses who started working at the pit when she was fourteen and finished when the women 's work was abolished after nationalisation . |
| 26 | Mrs Labno , mother of two sons , who lived in Moreton , Wirral , had hoped to work at the hospice . |
| 27 | Mrs Labno , mother of two sons , who lived in Moreton , Wirral , had hoped to work at the hospice . |
| 28 | NEW commissionaires have been appointed to work at the Barlaston Lodges . |
| 29 | She combines working at the branch with being a school governor and a member of the North Notts Training and Enterprise Council [ TEC ] Education Business Partnership . |
| 30 | The Rev. Thomas Tolming said that the Relieving Officer refused aid to deserving poor families who had children , considering that they ought to be put to work at the mine . |