Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] work [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Where I worked in the university , if a woman came in covered in bruises , no one would say anything , although we all knew what had happened . |
| 3 | The galloping granny , from Bristol , used to run the 800 yards and 4 x 400 relay for the Imperial Tobacco company where she worked on the shop floor . |
| 4 | Qua researcher , the academic may inhabit world III ; but qua teacher , he or she works in the realm of world II . |
| 5 | In 1837 he was apprenticed to his uncle James S. Stirling at Dundee foundry , where he worked for the next six years and where some locomotives were built for the Arbroath and Forfar Railway which influenced his own later designs . |
| 6 | Having to choose between being ‘ poor in Oxford or comfortable in Aber. ’ , he chose Aberystwyth , where he worked on the university magazine , published his first poems and stories , and dabbled in left-wing politics . |
| 7 | Now retired and living in Woodside , Barnard Castle , he left Tyneside to become a UN civil servant based in Washington DC , in the USA , where he worked with the World Bank and International Monetary Fund . |
| 8 | In the summer of 1914 Braque was once more at Sorgues , while Picasso spent his time between Sorgues and Avignon , where he worked in the company of André Derain . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | That I work against the Imam Khomeini — ’ |
| 11 | Er well whe er when I first went to I 'd already lost two children and er the girls knew that I worked with the t last two children . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In the early 1980s , because of her past connection with the military establishment , intellectuals tended to shun her and rumours had it that she worked for the Chinese KGB , the Ministry of State Security . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm pleased with it , ’ Maria responded warily , reminding herself that she worked for the man . |
| 15 | ‘ Do I take it that you work for the same man as the two who broke into my house ? ’ she asked . |
| 16 | and do n't you think it would be a good idea have you said in your letter that you worked for the the therapist ? |
| 17 | " I did n't know that you worked in the Biology Department . |
| 18 | Suppose that we work with the causal example ; it is required for knowledge that the fourth clause be true , but not that a have any inkling that the fourth clause be true . |
| 19 | I think that the first thing that one would have to say is that we work for the Ministry of Defence , and not the Ministry of War and therefore we are about defence , we 're about the maintenance of peace , erm this you know maintaining of justice etc etc . |
| 20 | And on this one there 's a nought on the inside and a nought on the outside so we work with the nought on the outside and we 'll go round that way , clockwise , the way the numbers go . |
| 21 | IWM 's Bevis Griffiths supervised the conservation work on the Firefly , and had this to say of the professional/volunteer team used to restore Z2033 : ‘ The Museum require volunteers for this sort of work because we have some seventy aircraft here at Duxford and six [ full-time ] technicians to look after them , which in anybody 's book is a huge workload , so we work alongside the volunteers . |
| 22 | Okay , now I 've just used this one example , but if you look at erm each other and one another there is also a reflective pronoun to find that they work in the same way in the appropriate antecedents and it also works for quantifier pronoun relations every girl admires herself which is fine but herself admired every girl does n't make a whole lot of sense . |
| 23 | Frequently venue staff try to set everything up before you arrive , on the basis that it worked for the people before you and it 's less effort for them . |
| 24 | And er G E C Marconi , Avionex er were responsible for making sure that it worked within the hardware in the system . |
| 25 | It 's here that he worked on the painstaking part by part design of the bike on a computer . |
| 26 | Philip Leapor told Freemantle that he worked for the Blencowe family for five years following his daughter 's birth . |
| 27 | Betty Maitland very obligingly looked up Danny Ram on the payroll ( his name was actually Danyatai Ram ) and told Robyn that he worked in the foundry . |
| 28 | I used sign language , and I worked on the assumption that all deaf people can lipread . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | And I worked on the till this morning I said to . |