Example sentences of "[conj] work [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Workers offer co-therapists to work with a family , or work as a family team . |
| 2 | Nearly all wives of the Ambassadors at the Court of St James 's take charge , or work at a stall . |
| 3 | effect so erm whether that means actually working directly for them or working for a company who specializes in erm the management of historic erm buildings or environments or areas . |
| 4 | In September 1953 Curran became the BBC 's first internally selected administrative trainee , visiting or working for a time in different departments of the BBC in and out of London and assisting in the preparation of the BBC 's first personnel manual . |
| 5 | Many smaller museums offer similar shorter sessions , where pupils can carry out certain activities appropriate to the historical site in question — such as lessons in a Victorian classroom , washday or cookery sessions in a cottage or kitchen , or working as a servant in a large country house . |
| 6 | Or working within a bank and somebody runs in with a shotgun , what sort of behaviour then ? |
| 7 | Being in a band is as valid as anything like getting an apprenticeship or working in a furniture factory , which were the options open to me . |
| 8 | The reason for this may well be that the hospital consultant is reluctant to let go medical responsibility for former patients and thrust them on to a local GP , but he is not normally easily available when off duty or working in a clinic many miles away . |
| 9 | Because they spent their year off teaching children in a nursery school , or working in a home for mentally handicapped people , and they discovered a new area of interest to which they can relate , and they become motivated to read that subject . |
| 10 | This last point could assume importance if , say , you were over the age of 50 or working in a field where the supply of skills exceeds demand . |
| 11 | This last point could assume importance if , say , you were over the age of 50 or working in a field where the supply of skills exceeds demand . |
| 12 | Advertising is such a complicated business that you may be able to assimilate it better if you have spent a few years " knocking-around " — travelling perhaps , or working in a shop or doing different kinds of jobs . |
| 13 | Dressmaking or working in a shop were possibilities . |
| 14 | ‘ She had never been out of Italy before — now there she was without as much as a full day 's notice at Brown 's Hotel looking on top hats and umbrellas out of a window that worked like a guillotine . |
| 15 | This form of specialisation is attractive to potential clients , particularly where the executive search consultant has undertaken many assignments successfully and has a functional discipline that works across a diversity of industries . |
| 16 | Anybody that works in a lesson that you doss about in , that you know you 're going to doss about in , that 's it , you get called ‘ ponce ’ and everything . ’ |
| 17 | I figured it was better than working in a factory . |
| 18 | A year later , living above the shop — a 150-year-old converted granite cottage — he finds running his own business a lot more stimulating than working in a bank , and village life much more fun . |
| 19 | A young woman once interviewed on the radio was asked whether she felt that working as a cleaner was beneath her . |
| 20 | Other teachers take the view that working for a class item : — |
| 21 | After completing the questionnaires , Susan felt that working in a library would not only fit her answers but was one of the things she 'd always been interested in doing . |
| 22 | The consensus is that working from a base in the area being covered has advantages that outweigh the inconvenience of being unable to just pop in to the sales centre . |
| 23 | The critic , too , according to Baudelaire has a right to be independent , and to work without a system ‘ which is a kind of damnation which forces one to a perpetual recantation ’ . |
| 24 | One such company took a finance director of a subsidiary out of the business for a whole year , sent him to Harvard for an abbreviated MBA and to work for a merchant bank in the City . |
| 25 | He returned to London to run a picture agency and to work as a photojournalist . |
| 26 | But what upset her particularly was the last sentence : ‘ I should go and work for a week in one of my shops but — though I could even sleep on the factory floor — I ca n't understand people working in shops . ’ |
| 27 | You can actually go and work for a living . |
| 28 | ‘ You do n't need to go and work as a librarian abroad , for God 's sake . |
| 29 | If you want to learn more about horses you either have to go and work in a training yard or enrol for a college-based course — right ? |
| 30 | ‘ He comes from Achiltibuie , and worked for a bit at the hydroponics there . |