Example sentences of "[Wh pn] work [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just then , Donna , who worked on the front desk , came trotting across the lawn towards them . |
| 2 | We wish those who worked on the interim advisory committee well and we look forward to the next phase in the determination of teachers ' pay which is the work of the pay review body under the chairmanship of Sir Graham Day . |
| 3 | That is a throw-back to my days as a junior reporter when I used to play with another junior who worked on the rival weekly , the North Devon Journal Herald His name was David Vine , later to become the BBC 's commentator on snooker and winter sports . |
| 4 | The owner , Christian Brisset told us that there was a journalist in Cherbourg who had written five books on the history of the town during the war — Paul Ingouf — who worked on the local newspaper La Presse de la Manche , was an historian and kept extensive records . |
| 5 | She had to be able to liaise with the local authorities , professionals in the social services , and people with specialist knowledge who worked on the Advisory Boards . |
| 6 | The Carlton Girls , one of the many Tiller troupes who worked on the exhausting cine-variety circuits |
| 7 | The Conservatives , after flirting with the idea of a Labour style ‘ shadow ’ agency of volunteers , is back with Saatchi , but a Saatchi where many of the key personnel who worked on the Tory account in previous years ( notably Michael Dobbs , the agency 's former deputy chairman and once a Tory Central Office staffer himself ) have departed . |
| 8 | The principal members were a private secretary , Oliver Everett , who worked for the diplomatic service and was recalled from Madrid to set up her office ; and Anne Beckwith-Smith , a specialist in eighteenth-century English painting , who worked at Sotheby 's and was brought in as full-time lady-in-waiting . |
| 9 | The court heard how Cook , who worked for the Baptist Church in Corporation Road , Darlington , locked the girl in a room . |
| 10 | It is symbolic that a Babylonian text records a payment of oil to Jehoiakin , the son of the king of Judah , and to seven Greek carpenters who worked for the Babylonian court ( Ancient Near Eastern Texts , 2 ed. , p. 308 ) . |
| 11 | Frank , who worked for the Coventry-based business for 10 years before retiring on medical grounds , is now disabled and the money is paying for a £2,127 electric wheelchair . |
| 12 | The journalists who worked for the popular newspapers were only concerned to please their readers , and the truth was irrelevant . |
| 13 | The Institute of Environmental Assessment ( IEA ) was set up by Dr Tim Coles , who worked for the National Rivers Authority , to act as an impartial and independent watchdog and to raise the standard of environmental impact assessments and statements , which — under European law — must be submitted to planning authorities with planning applications . |
| 14 | Tom , who worked for the British Caprotti poppet valve-gear manufacturers , Associated Locomotive Equipment Ltd , was instrumental , not only in the original design of 71000 , but also in the rebuilt carried out by the Trust . |
| 15 | Dependents of one man who worked at the controversial Sellafield plant in Cumbria and died of lung cancer in 1989 received a ‘ quarter payment ’ of £15,243 . |
| 16 | One notes S. A. Waksman ( 1888–1973 ) , who worked at the Agricultural Experimental Station of the State University of New Jersey . |
| 17 | It is a sentiment shared by many — and especially those who worked at the once-thriving Basingstoke office , now destined for the annals of feed industry history . |
| 18 | But now she raised her eyes and did look , differently , at Alice , the housemate of a Council official who worked at the main office for this area . |
| 19 | We will always be grateful to the doctors and nurses who worked during the festive season , as well as all year round . |
| 20 | Many hitherto unpublished photographs accompany details of the parts played by the Royal Observer Corps , Civil Defence , Fire , Police and Ambulance services , plus the men and women who worked in the anti-aircraft emplacements , ATS , Balloon Command , and of course the RAF , who played a major role in photographing and bombing the manufacture and launch sites . |
| 21 | It is to these people , who worked in the neurological tradition , we turn next . |
| 22 | His architect was a Frenchman from Avignon , Matthieu d'Arras , who worked in the then fashionable high Gothic style . |
| 23 | They were the young Lord Dunglass , who had gone to Munich with Chamberlain as his parliamentary private secretary in 1938 , Chips Channon , an amiable but half-witted American who was Rab Butler 's PPS , Butler himself — a friend and admirer of Chamberlain who worked in the Foreign Office under Halifax — and a fourth as yet unnamed . |
| 24 | Mr Wilkie , who worked in the Royal Army Educational Corps for 17 years , said : ‘ In some ways I can understand what Grampian Enterprise is doing because these days everything seems to be down to numbers . |
| 25 | More recently there was Geoffrey Prime , who worked in the very heart of GCHQ ( see Chapter 4 ) , and Michael Bettaney , an MI5 officer whose drunken and strange behaviour was in many ways reminiscent of Guy Burgess 's yet similarly went undetected until reported by a defector ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 26 | The Defense Department employs nearly 80 per cent of the civilian and military personnel who work for the federal government and , in 1978 , was paying over 5 million incomes to military personnel and civilian employees past and present . |
| 27 | MORE THAN 10,000 women who work for the Regional Council have received a cervical smear test since 1988 , and the Women 's Unit has played a major part in that achievement . |
| 28 | At present , the vast majority of people who work for the Scottish Transport Group come within a pension scheme-TOPS . |
| 29 | What he did not give in response to the many points made by my Hon. Friend the Member for Dundee , East ( Mr. McAllion ) were absolute guarantees and reassurance for the people who work for the Scottish Transport Group . |
| 30 | The White Knights Ball , in aid of the Order of Malta Volunteers , who work with the sick and handicapped , is held annually at Grosvenor House . |