Example sentences of "[vb past] work at [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The discovery , in 1945 by Brotzu in Sardinia , of antibiotic activity in a species of Cephalosporium recovered from the sea near a sewage outfall was brought to Florey 's attention by a former British public health officer and led to work at Oxford and elsewhere on this and similar organisms . |
| 2 | She began to work at nights because there were fewer people working in the factory then , and so it was easier to get into the photographic laboratory . |
| 3 | Maggie had to work at things because Mitch was very different from his usual amusing self . |
| 4 | Roberts ' student days coincided with the depression and to finance his studies he had to work at night and on Saturdays in a bakery store . |
| 5 | Robert Bevan , one of their number , had worked at Pont-Aven and had known Paul Gauguin , and Sickert , whose sympathy with France went deep , owned a house in Neuville , on the outskirts of Dieppe , which he lent for a time to the Gilmans . |
| 6 | The DPR directors had worked at LHW and set up DPR along the same principles . |
| 7 | But my grandparents had worked at Drogo since it was built , so we 've had a long link with the Drewes ; the family put in a word for me so I got the job . |