Example sentences of "[Wh pn] work [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Kurds who worked for the Turks killed her husband and children . |
| 32 | In the book The Soul of a New Machine , Tracy Kidder quotes a secretary who worked for the Eagle Team under the visionary Tom West . |
| 33 | Chinese authorities have executed a bank accountant who embezzled more than $175,000 in the country 's first such case of computer fraud , the Xinhua Daily Telegraph newspaper reported yesterday : Shi Biao , who worked for the Jilin branch of the state-run Agricultural Bank of China , was found to have siphoned funds to private accounts from August to November 1991 , and he and accomplice Yu Lixin were arrested as they were preparing to leave China through the southern economic zone of Shenzhen , bordering Hong Kong ; it was the first case of bank embezzlement via computer in China ; China imposes the death penalty for a variety of offences , ranging from bicycle theft to panda poaching . |
| 34 | Yet another suspect category were the many spetsy ( bourgeois specialists ) who worked for the Commissariat . |
| 35 | Then Tom , who worked for the Bryant and May match firm , will splash out on a greenhouse and a garden shed for himself . |
| 36 | He was flown to America and during his debriefing exposed two Russian spies , Edward Howard , who worked for the CIA , and Ronald Pelton , who had worked for the NSA . |
| 37 | Over lunch , Dobson regaled Branson with a tale of how Private Eye had suppressed a story about adulterous liaisons at a national newspaper — precisely the kind of story in which the Eye habitually delighted — because of the interests of some Eye contributors who worked for the paper . |
| 38 | In 1961 the Club was developing a more commercial approach to itself , in no small measure owing to Jack Webb who worked for the Club 's accountant , Spencer Ell . |
| 39 | I had a friend who worked for the oil people , and I decided to stay after a visit to this place . |
| 40 | The IRA regarded civilians who worked for the security forces as " legitimate targets " , but the attacks on civilian workers prompted several joint protest demonstrations by Catholic and Protestant workers . |
| 41 | The evil paedophile , who worked for the prisons charity NIACRO , preyed on youngsters using his position of trust with the St. Lazarus ' ambulance corps . |
| 42 | Levi was a tax-collector who worked for the Romans . |
| 43 | Greek tradition ascribed the ‘ invention ’ of bronze-casting to two Samians , Rhoikos and Theodoros , who worked for the tyrant Polykrates as architects ( Theodoros also as gem-engraver , above p. 39 ) . |
| 44 | As we were mixing the B side , this guy called Calvin Mark Lee , who worked for the record company , was actually off at Philips cutting the A side . |
| 45 | Freddie , who worked for the youth department of the Jewish community in Rosenstrasse , had organised and travelled with many transports , until finally he was warned : ‘ You either stay in England or you 've had it . ’ |
| 46 | The Crown lawyer said the court would hear that the probable target was a man who worked for the Environment Department and whose tasks also involved working at Ministry of Defence properties . |
| 47 | Eight years later , punk rockers with honours degrees were going to concerts by The Jesus and Mary Chain — married to girls who worked at the Institute of Contemporary Art , or living with men who created ( or deconstructed ) advertising campaigns . |
| 48 | Just as men 's muscularity was and is celebrated in the histories , so was another man fascinated by the muscularity of women who worked at the pitheads . |
| 49 | Laura liked the idea , partly because it was a way of avoiding import duty , but also because the eastern Kentucky women who worked at the factory were similar to the Welsh women she had first hired in the Sixties ; rural , with strong ties to family and community and skilful seamstresses by upbringing . |
| 50 | WABI was written by people who worked at the BIOS house Phoenix Technologies and later at Integrated Technologies Inc . |
| 51 | Her dog sniffed for a moment at the ankle of the young man who worked at the engine of his car . |
| 52 | None of these figures takes account of the women and children who worked at the craft , but the broad trends are clear . |
| 53 | ‘ We ’ turned out to be a husband who worked at the London HQ of an oil company and two children , a boy of twelve and a girl of fifteen , both at boarding school . |
| 54 | David Lynch , who worked at the Passport Office , admitted his part in a racket to slip the documents on to the black market where they were worth £40,000 each . |
| 55 | Yet another story tells of a young ostler who worked at the inn . |
| 56 | Ziba 's 35-year-old brother , Meho , who worked at the dairy and fought with the Sarajevo defence force , had been killed during the night in a skirmish a few blocks away . |
| 57 | A Victorian gentleman called A.J. Munby toured the Wigan coalfield talking to the pit brow " lasses " who worked at the pit top sorting coal from muck during an intense instance in the nineteenth-century struggle to regulate the sex of waged workers and of men and women . |
| 58 | Laurie Smith , who worked at the forge from 1936 until its closure , has arranged this year 's reunion at The Cottage , alongside The Freemasons ' Hall , in Archer Street , Darlington . |
| 59 | None of the people who worked at the hotel could explain how the shoe had got back into the room . |
| 60 | A university of such importance was bound to attract the intellectuals of the nation , and Peck lists a whole host of literati who worked at the university , including the notable authors William Wheteley , William Ludlington and Walter de Heston . |