Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] work [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | After going to Sheffield University she worked in a London store and trained to be a pilot in her spare time . |
| 2 | During this period I worked as a computer programmer in Accra for a year . |
| 3 | During the war she worked as a translator , and at the time of the action of the novel she has taken up this trade again recently . |
| 4 | Perhaps because of his career as a Naval Officer during the First World War he worked for a long period during the Second World War at the Admiralty . |
| 5 | After the war he worked with a Quaker mission on reconstruction in eastern Poland ( 1921 ) , and on famine in Russia ( 1922 ) . |
| 6 | Well it , it , at least it 's gold , I mean , I , I , I was in the jewellery trade when I first left school , between school and national service I worked at a manufacturing jewellers in Birmingham and I 've never really gone along with the idea that nine carat is actually gold . |
| 7 | Out erm well , mum , in the morning she works as a postwoman and then the rest of the day she works as a , in the pub so |
| 8 | As an Inspector you work in a small team and operate from one of more than 20 offices in England , Scotland and Wales . |
| 9 | Out erm well , mum , in the morning she works as a postwoman and then the rest of the day she works as a , in the pub so |
| 10 | But our rate was fixed , the girls 's rate We worked for a fixed rate . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , quite apart from their value as a temporary measure to kick-start a move to overcome corporate cultural stereotypes , it was argued convincingly that at an operational level they worked as a performance standard on managers , making them work harder to find , encourage and develop female high-fliers . |
| 12 | Of course they work on a Saturday . |
| 13 | For ten years after graduation he worked as a curate in Somerset , most of the time as assistant to his father . |
| 14 | On one level it works as a straight crime whodunnit . |
| 15 | In the summer of his second year at university he worked at a butcher 's . |
| 16 | Apart from the penalty he worked like a beaver . |
| 17 | ‘ The idea came to me because as a 15-year-old I worked as a plumber in churches and was impressed by the windows , ’ said Dave . |
| 18 | And they particularly admire ‘ the way we work as a team ’ . |
| 19 | When James left school he worked for a while with his father . |
| 20 | After ordination he worked as a chaplain with German prisoners of war for the YMCA and from 1948 as secretary for German affairs with the British Council of Churches Inter Church Aid and Refugee Service , the forerunner of Christian Aid . |
| 21 | After ordination he worked as a chaplain with German prisoners of war for the YMCA and from 1948 as secretary for German affairs with the British Council of Churches Inter Church Aid and Refugee Service , the forerunner of Christian Aid . |
| 22 | Most of the time I work behind a desk and have to wear smart clothes and have long nails and a nice hair-do . |
| 23 | This time I worked in a watercolour sketchbook , deliberately to achieve the softening effect that the paper would have on the marker inks as they spread into it . |
| 24 | In his spare time he works as a reclamation engineer . |