Example sentences of "[noun prp] work [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Klaus was a boy with a good school certificate who wanted to join ICI to work in chemical engineering . |
| 2 | In the 1960s , an astronomer named Gerald Hawkins worked on another idea . |
| 3 | Travis worked with impersonal speed , stripping off all her wet clothes , taking extra care with her foot and rubbing her dry with one of his own , only slightly damp , shirts . |
| 4 | Ann worked in British West Hartlepool : severely shelled during World War I , home of Andy Cap and where they hung a shipwrecked monkey in Napoleonic times , in the belief that the poor beast was a Frenchman . |
| 5 | Ms Torcato worked for several newspapers and magazines in India and , more recently , in Gulf countries . |
| 6 | Herschel worked always by himself , while Hubble worked in professional observatories that were the world 's finest for his kind of astronomy . |
| 7 | Marie works in this place most nights , so she do n't usually come home till I 'm asleep . |
| 8 | You do n't mention him , except to say that he was a biologist and that he went to England to work for two years at the chemical weapons experimental establishment at Porton Down . |
| 9 | Achille Hébuterne worked as chief cashier in a perfumery . |
| 10 | The operation to free them involved four teams of three men from mines rescue centres at Selby and Doncaster working in 10-minute shifts to claw away debris from a bottom corner of the fall . |
| 11 | Class 58 locomotives Nos 58016 , 58017 and 58018 under construction inside Doncaster works on 28 July 1984 . |
| 12 | ‘ Anyone who does n't believe the White House was was deeply involved … does n't understand the magnitude of the President 's obsession with Noriega or the way Washington works in these areas , ’ said Larry Birns , director of the respected liberal think-tank , the Council on Hemispheric Affairs . |
| 13 | Mike Leece , Devonport chief executive , said there was a future role for Rosyth to work on minor vessels . |
| 14 | A vigorous and intellectually acute controversialist , Haldane worked with great energy to sustain the Protestant character of the English Church and nation and hence contributed substantially to the entrenched conservatism of Victorian Anglican Evangelicalism . |
| 15 | Coverdale worked on generating team spirit and inter-dependence — including manoeuvres on Salisbury Plain that involved treasure hunts and making rope ladders . |
| 16 | Scenes at Staveley Works in LNER days |
| 17 | One nationalist leader read out a list of ‘ traitors ’ on Belgrade Television , mostly Serbs working for Serbian radio and TV . |
| 18 | The going rate for solicitors in Bradford to work on such legislation is about £60 per hour , whereas the in-house price is about £14 per hour . |
| 19 | Elvira worked for 11 years as a secondary school language and music teacher in Portugal before coming to England in 1986 . |
| 20 | In Manchester , Sheffield , Leeds , Liverpool and Cardiff the police and the NVA worked in close contact , closing brothels , prosecuting for obscenity and investigating cases of abduction . |
| 21 | When his general writing is examined it is clear that , notwithstanding the analytical distinction he makes in Law of the Constitution , Dicey worked within this tradition . |
| 22 | In an attempt to reach a practical solution , Brunig and Klinge worked in Amazonian forest that was estimated to have some 700 plant species , excluding cryptogams , representing 70 families . |
| 23 | Soon the place was alive with their busy whirr as Leonie and one of her friends stitched samples ; to their accompaniment Hugo worked on new designs . |
| 24 | A. Geikie worked for 6 years before visiting headquarters . |
| 25 | Charles Fraser-Smith worked with 007 writer Ian Fleming during the second world war . |
| 26 | On arrival , she was distressed to find only Jock Hallett working on some papers . |
| 27 | The Mapplethorpe Foundation , founded by the photographer in the year before his death in 1989 , has donated millions of dollars to fund medical research into AIDS and HIV infection and has provided many grants in the form of cash and gifts of Mapplethorpe works to qualified art institutions for the development and expansion of their photography programmes . |
| 28 | Mervyn Hayward worked for 46 years as a Coppersmith at the British Rail engineering works in Swindon . |
| 29 | Sheila worked at 97 Kingston on the cheese and butter counter from 1955 for 11 years until she left to start a family . |
| 30 | Paula worked for seven years in a biscuit factory in San Salvador , owned jointly by a Czech and a Salvadorean . |