Example sentences of "[noun pl] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The journalists who worked for the popular newspapers were only concerned to please their readers , and the truth was irrelevant . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The Carlton Girls , one of the many Tiller troupes who worked on the exhausting cine-variety circuits |
| 12 | Half the children had parents who worked in the evening , anyway , and the other half left their children to decide for themselves . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In the south around the centres of population part-time farmers worked mainly in urban areas as teachers , advisers or tradesmen , whilst in more remote areas they worked in the forests , in the hydro-electricity industry , or as lorry/bus drivers . |
| 16 | Periodically he returned to his Australian roots , but for long periods he worked in the UK . |
| 17 | The Defense Department employs nearly 80 per cent of the civilian and military personnel who work for the federal government and , in 1978 , was paying over 5 million incomes to military personnel and civilian employees past and present . |
| 18 | The Conservatives , after flirting with the idea of a Labour style ‘ shadow ’ agency of volunteers , is back with Saatchi , but a Saatchi where many of the key personnel who worked on the Tory account in previous years ( notably Michael Dobbs , the agency 's former deputy chairman and once a Tory Central Office staffer himself ) have departed . |
| 19 | One advantage of complete mixes is that these problems have been corrected by nutritionists who work for the compound feed manufacturers . |
| 20 | The project consists of three linked studies : in-depth interviews with 100 members of the general population ; exploratory interviews with 30 solicitors who work in the field of probate ; examination of a sample of 1,000 wills , drawn from a 40 year period . |
| 21 | For over twenty years I worked under the delusion that I was teaching maths . |
| 22 | I use to dread going in to work — in the two years I worked for the Inland Revenue I do not think I worked a full month — and in the end I left . |
| 23 | As far as we know , IBM is the only company which offers discount schemes for people with disabilities and charities which work with the disabled . |
| 24 | With the main objective of looking after the interests of those professional pilots who work within the air taxi and commuter airline business , this British organisation , IPA , has recently been formed . |
| 25 | My hon. Friend will be aware of the concern of my constituents who work at the Royal Navy workshop at Almondbank because of the present review of helicopter servicing . |
| 26 | Yong 's father was appalled at the idea , but was finally persuaded to invest in fifty tons of raw salt , to be used in the curing of the venison which abounded in the Eastern islands , as well as several hundred plastic chairs , and a quantity of spare diving equipment for the pearl-shellers who worked for the Aru branch of the Tan family . |
| 27 | John always said that they spent more money restoring the facade than they ever spent on the thousands of workers who worked inside the plant , but then when it closed they could n't knock it down , so they turned it into a superstore . |
| 28 | This protectiveness has been especially strong in Sian , as before we got here there was an ‘ incident ’ in which an Australian girl teaching at the Foreign Language Institute was attacked and injured ( a fractured scull ) by a son of one of the workers who worked in the Institute . |
| 29 | I can certainly confirm on the specific point that the hon. Gentleman raised that those workers who work at the Ministry of Defence can continue to be members of the union of their choice . |
| 30 | For the next thirty years she worked among the poor in Wapping , Rotherhithe , and Dublin , retiring in 1925 , at the age of seventy-nine , to her old home in Braintree , now a convent run by Franciscan nuns as an old people 's home . |