Example sentences of "[vb past] work [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shortly after graduating in 1987 , the opportunity arose to work with former Napier student , Tom Kidd . |
| 2 | It is true that extensive reviews of research in the United States ( Lipton et al. , 1975 ) and in Britain ( Brody , 1976 ) found it to be generally the case that different penal measures had similarly unimpressive outcomes in terms of re-offending , but they also found examples of reformative programmes which seemed to work to some extent with certain groups of offenders ( see Palmer , 1975 ) . |
| 3 | The I O C's choice of Atlanta , Georgia to host the centennial Olympic Games has not only shocked and disappointed the Athens delegation here in Tokyo , it has brought disappointment to the team from Manchester who 'd worked for several years to fulfil the dream of bringing the Games to the U K for the first time since 1948 . |
| 4 | Geoff Tulloch got hold of the idea that she 'd worked for some corporation in Detroit for a year . |
| 5 | He pledged to work for all sides in the constituency . |
| 6 | ‘ We began to work for this journey two years ago . |
| 7 | Now , to cover all eventualities , I at once began to work on both lungs . |
| 8 | Since I started to work on this chapter somewhere back in early 1989 a lot has happened . |
| 9 | At the age of 16 I started to work in all kinds of crop harvesting . |
| 10 | ‘ She 's only been here a couple of times , when I needed to work on some papers very urgently . ’ |
| 11 | This suited everyone else , as some people like to come in early , others to leave late , and we all managed to work around each other . |
| 12 | and then I had to work with these people and I knew that that was the kind of way that they were operating and I had to teach them by the way I worked but in fact it was okay to admit that we do make mistakes . |
| 13 | The investigators knew that within an hour or so of their arrival at the accident site , but they had to work for another year and a half to find out why : |
| 14 | India and Pakistan , but he had to work in each case through the chief executive who was charged with running the business . |
| 15 | I wished to work on some panels too wide to be held in my Workmate , which has a maximum opening of about 10½in . |
| 16 | While 42 ( 69 per cent ) interviewees had worked at some time or other , the overwhelming majority ( 89 per cent ) were unemployed at the time of interview . |
| 17 | Ah but unlike me , him , I was a raw recruit whilst he had experienced County Council and he had worked on both sides of the Council Chamber as a as a Government Officer , I believe , and er County Councillor . |
| 18 | Francis tells of a Canadian discus thrower , Rob Gray , who had worked for many years to reach the 58 metre mark . |
| 19 | One of my former patients , a respected scientist who had worked for many years in the field of cancer research , still kept the inferior Inner Face inflicted on him by demanding parents and a series of thoughtless teachers . |
| 20 | Mr. Maton had worked for many years as a solicitor 's clerk , he had not turned up for work that day , the young man sent to check the reason had found Mr. Maton dead in the kitchen , the small loaf collected on his way home from work the previous evening still in its wrapping on the table . |
| 21 | Kate had worked for many years with her firm , finishing as head of the sales department . |
| 22 | This speaker , a deaf teacher of the deaf who had worked for many years in the Department of Education of the Deaf at Manchester University , had been a committed " oralist " . |
| 23 | To mark the occassion a farewell dinner was given to Trevor and his wife Barbara at the Post House Hotel in Norwich , attended by Joint M.D. Rod Turnbull , Sales Directors Steve Higgins and Jack Millar , together with many colleagues and customers with whom Trevor had worked for many years . |
| 24 | His explanation that he had worked for several years for one master , until his employer had died , mollified Jonadab a little . |
| 25 | Instead he had worked for several years for Lintas , the advertising agency owned by Unilever , only abandoning this job a few months before war broke out in order to concentrate for a period entirely on his painting . |
| 26 | Miss Grimes , with whom she had worked for several years , was hardly the most congenial of companions but at least she was familiar . |
| 27 | She was a high-class cook who had worked in many parts of the country including London . |
| 28 | This was quite clearly not an agreement between the employer and the employee but had the effect of being an indirect restraint on any employee who wanted to work for another member of the trade association within the two year period . |
| 29 | People could see why I wanted to work in that way and did what they could to make it possible . |