Example sentences of "[noun prp] work [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lot of the members told me I was very good — I could pull clubs well and read greens — and I should try going to the Bing Crosby to work for a pro in the tournament . |
| 2 | Ten years later , George had become a woollen cloth dresser but Smith ( as he was normally known ) walked 3 miles each day to Samuel Fox 's new steelworks at Stocksbridge to work as a steel temperer . |
| 3 | Picasso worked from a photograph he had taken of his friend and dealer who recorded that Picasso nevertheless demanded some twenty sittings . |
| 4 | She knew that Sue worked as a nurse four nights a week , going on duty some time after the children had gone to bed in the evening , and returning at seven in the morning . |
| 5 | She and Earl Spencer worked on a book for the Greater London Council called What is Our Heritage ? and soon found they had much in common . |
| 6 | Born in Brno , Czechoslovakia , in 1929 , Kundera worked as a labourer and a jazz musician before turning to writing . |
| 7 | Richard worked as a panel beater at a garage in Frampton on Severn . |
| 8 | Richard worked as a panel beater . |
| 9 | It is already known that Strauss worked to a system of keys associated with particular characters and situations , but Professor Gilliam identifies his primary concern in Elektra as ‘ establishing a sense of motivic continuity in the orchestral line ’ , thus lending extra point to Strauss 's description of Salome as ‘ a symphony in the medium of drama ’ . |
| 10 | In 1323–5 Ramsey worked as a mason at St Stephen 's chapel in Westminster Palace , but seems to have been identical with the Master William de Ramesseye in charge of works at Norwich Cathedral in 1326–31 . |
| 11 | Following nine years service in the RAF , Ken worked for a number of companies , before joining Haven Automation in 1979 as an instrument engineer . |
| 12 | After that came a stint in the ambulance service , while Jean worked for a catering business . |
| 13 | Mr Samson works as a technician and driver for Durham county council museum education service at Darlington . |
| 14 | THE heartbroken mother of transplant donor Paula Moss is leaving England to work as a missionary . |
| 15 | Later he returned to England to work in a POW camp : |
| 16 | Gilbert was eight years younger than Gould , but the two must have met earlier , for by 1828 , at the age of 16 , Gilbert was recruited by Gould to work as a taxidermist at the Zoological Society . |
| 17 | After serving in the US Army in Vietnam in 1969-71 , Gore worked as a journalist before being elected to the House of Representatives in 1976 and to the Senate in 1984 and 1990 . |
| 18 | The incidents , which occurred while Tunstall worked as a postman in Darlington last October , came to light after an internal investigation . |
| 19 | Simon worked as a tailor 's presser , not a highly-paid job . |
| 20 | From 1910 to 1921 Machen worked as a reporter for the Evening News . |
| 21 | She was outside her father 's social club at Pentre , South Glamorgan , where Mr Browning worked as a bouncer . |
| 22 | Eddie Gilfoyle worked as a hospital technician at Murrayfield Hospital at Thingwall , Wirral . |
| 23 | Turner worked in a security systems retail outlet on Rocket Boulevard . |
| 24 | Where are they now corner … in the wake of the current ORANGE JUICE resurgence , we hear that former bassist DAVE MCCLYMONT is currently employed making rice balls in an ethnic restaurant of some description in Sydney , while MALCOLM ROSS works in a hospital shop in Southend selling bottles of Lucozade to visiting relatives but still gives guitar lessons in the evenings . |
| 25 | He went to the gymnasium at Schaffhausen , and then , after apprenticeship with a dyer in Winterthur , he moved to Zurich to work with a silk firm . |
| 26 | Before his management career Ed worked as a drummer . |
| 27 | Mr Smyth said Williams worked as a leisure professional but also served as a Special Constable and was hoping to become a police officer in the future . |
| 28 | Her father , Alic Denning worked as a docker for fifty one years . |
| 29 | Bullock worked as a sculptor , showing six busts at the Royal Academy in London in 1804 . |
| 30 | CRL worked with a box-maker , Cundell Decorprint of Somercotes , Derbyshire , who produced a box in which discarded plastic syringes can be burned . |