Example sentences of "[to-vb] in a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A cliff path walk affords views of Burgh Island , to which Agatha Christie escaped to write in a cliff top gazebo — Evil Under the Sun was set on this 26 acre private island . |
| 2 | Others find it best to work in a revision group . |
| 3 | I am here to work in a London drama academy , to teach — ah , yes — deportment . |
| 4 | Later he returned to England to work in a POW camp : |
| 5 | I 've been to work in a bicycle shop . ’ |
| 6 | It was n't that she wanted to work in a sex shop but that she needed work of some kind . |
| 7 | NICOLA Delacour ( 18 ) , from Newtownards used to work in a building society but has now been modelling for nearly a year . |
| 8 | He 's so good at bottling things up , he ought to work in a ketchup factory . ’ |
| 9 | The one complication is that all Windows applications place the same sort of minimum demands on a machine and so if you want to work in a Windows environment you will have to add the extra requirements to machine fit to run Windows . |
| 10 | He went on to work in a hospital ship in the Mediterranean — a year which he later described as being one of the most enjoyable of his life . |
| 11 | She used to work in a wool shop in Retford called Wool Shop . |
| 12 | Mrs. Millings was pleased at being called " Miss " , and the excitement of being taken to work in a police car was another pleasing thought . |
| 13 | Dedicated to making the water a safe environment , he trains swimmers to pass the bronze medallion , the qualification needed to work in a swimming pool . |
| 14 | ‘ He brings considerable outside experience and proven ability in defining practical business strategies and putting them to work in a market environment , ’ Mr Hugh Smith said . |
| 15 | Figures about child labour in coal mines in the nineteenth century , or about evacuation of children in the Second World War , do not begin to give any impression of what it was like to work in a coal mine or to be evacuated . |
| 16 | Hetty had left the shop to work in an ordnance factory soon after Sarah returned , and now to add to the misery of the two girls , Mabel went to train as an auxiliary nurse and Mrs Dyson 's sister came to take charge of the shop . |
| 17 | What she did know was that he lived with his mother and two brothers , and that after the war he would go back to work in an insurance office . |
| 18 | Mrs Preston added : ‘ In my opinion he looked too upset to work in an operating theatre so I allowed him to go home on compassionate grounds . ’ |
| 19 | Seven in ten were continuing to work in an IT area , building on the knowledge and skills acquired in the Advanced Course . |
| 20 | However , on a Dow-Stoker Returners programme she discovered that she had quite a strong numerical ability , and decided that she would like to work in an accounts department . |
| 21 | By introducing a satellite RNA Ribonucleic Acid ( closely related to DNA ) , it has been possible to establish in a tobacco plant a heritable agent capable of preventing the development of the mosaic virus as it enters the cell . |
| 22 | If you knew the equation relating light intensity to position in an intensity profile it would be a relatively simple matter to apply double differentiation and extract the points of maximum change . |
| 23 | But one of my favourite things is to plug in a drum machine , a tape or CD when I 'm practising , and get a groove going . |
| 24 | It 's much easier to hide in a church hall ! |
| 25 | The people of Worcestershire , displeased by royal taxation , rioted and killed two of the collectors , who had attempted to hide in a church tower . |
| 26 | The bridge rectifier should be one rated at 6A and may be difficult to find in a d.i.l. configuration . |
| 27 | 2.1 Non-competition/canvassing clauses It is common to find in an employment contract an express clause which restricts competition/canvassing by an employee both during and after employment . |
| 28 | Toy makers , breakfast cereal producers and clothes manufacturers are all hoping to benefit in a merchandising bonanza that aims to beat the $500 million spin-offs generated by 1989 's Batman . |
| 29 | Solowka is refreshingly honest , but the band 's efforts were legitimate enough to prompt the British Ukrainian Association to ask them to appear in a video newsletter and the set definitely broadened the band 's appeal . |
| 30 | The agony of the debate was over — although both John Nott and Peter Carrington next had to appear in a committee room upstairs in front of an unhappy party meeting . |