Example sentences of "[vb past] work at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I think at first it seemed to work at a disadvantage .
2 It seemed to work at the time .
3 The dufflecoat would have been the one he had worn when he first came to work at the Establishment .
4 Later he came to work at the house which was his first entry into Local Government .
5 Sandra , but she preferred Sandy , told us that she 'd worked at the Exhilarator for five months but was just biding her time before she could move away from her mother and get her own place in London .
6 But it would have been costly because he 'd worked at the paper for so long .
7 When he married he rented a rambling red-brick Georgian house two miles away and bicycled to work at the forge most days .
8 But the H S E says the cluster of leukaemia cases is confined mainly to the nearby village of Seascale and to children whose fathers began working at the plant before nineteen sixty five .
9 Molly and George needed to work at the adjustment .
10 I know it sounds crackers but we preferred it , " said one of the pit brow lasses who started working at the pit when she was fourteen and finished when the women 's work was abolished after nationalisation .
11 Yeah , folk here just never been out since New Year , then she had to work at the hospital Tuesday , well Bradley said if you do n't feel fit enough phone up and we 'll send a nurse to you I said you 're bloody mental , you ask for everything you get , I said instead of phoning the nurse in , ah but I think Alison told me they both need a good , good bloody feed they do
12 He had worked at the idea with all the intensity of youth , and now it was about to bear fruit .
13 During the summer breaks from university , he had worked at the sausage factory where his father was manager .
14 Filmmakers were rarely imported from outside ( Thorold Dickinson , who was allowed in to make Secret People in 1952 , could be regarded as an ‘ old boy ’ since he had worked at the studio during Basil Dean 's time ) and , with five directors responsible for two-thirds of the films made at the studio between 1942 and 1955 , there was little competition inside the studio , and no exposure to fresh ideas from outside .
15 She had been a member of the bank 's board of management since November 1991 and had worked at the bank for 30 years .
16 For thousands of years the ocean had worked at the chalk cliffs and eventually brought down these trees , and because the place was so isolated and difficult to reach , the branches had escaped use as firewood .
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