Example sentences of "[Wh pn] work [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Richard Miles , 29 years old , who worked as a panel beater , was found dead in parents ' garden . |
2 | Mrs Bristow , of central London , who worked as a court reporter , fell from the third-floor as she tried to open a sash window in the press room at the court . |
3 | Louise , who worked as a nurse , was not able to come that afternoon , she remembered . |
4 | The most crucial evidence of the day came from Mr Loxton , who worked as a butcher next door to the Oliver 's shop . |
5 | Incidentally , the one who worked as a footman had to leave his job in order to get married to a girl who was also in service at the Duke 's place . |
6 | Marina 's father , who worked as a hotel electrician , is Croatian . |
7 | They were taken by animal welfare worker Terry Hill , who worked as a technician at Shamrock for nearly a year . |
8 | Bourne , who worked as a driver and minder to for Heidari , was said to have admitted after his arrest that he had thrown the liquid into Michelle 's face , but had thought it was ‘ soapy water ’ . |
9 | Mr Kovac , who worked as a banker until Czechoslovakia 's 1989 ‘ velvet revolution ’ against communism , yesterday polled 16 more votes than needed . |
10 | The woman , who worked as a waitress in the sergeant 's mess , told Ingrid all she knew about the compound , and advised her to steer clear of the cookhouse . |
11 | I was enormously glad she had made that little speech for the mere sight of Erich — the knowledge that a man who worked as a painter in a Ford Taunus factory and was , in his own way , a type-specimen of Atlantic man , with no known connections with the new Ocean , had somehow fetched up on a remote Pacific island — was disturbing the entire thesis I wished to construct . |
12 | McIlvanney says that Stein , who worked as a miner until he was 27 , ‘ understood that having a talent for sport can be a matter of luck , not merit . |
13 | Smith , an ex-army nurse who worked as a counsellor for homosexual soldiers , claimed in his appeal that he was the victim of a miscarriage of justice . |
14 | Newspaper reporters gathered at Low Spennymoor eager for any information about May , who worked as a wire cutter at a nearby factory . |
15 | You can go on your own , and the woman I spoke to , who worked as a health visitor during the day , was very supportive . |
16 | That agreement made it clear that the defendant was employed as a milkman and that the intention of the clause was to afford the employer protection only against the activities of an employee who worked as a milkman once his employment ended . |
17 | Eager to enrich the treasury the Crown began a rapid development of these resources , settling the area with peasants who worked as a serf proletariat and maintained farms to feed themselves . |
18 | Among recent successes was a link with Sandon High School students who worked on a project to achieve greater accuracy in testing the texture of clay press cakes . |
19 | Weavers of worsteds , who worked on a putting-out basis , took to the flying shuttle around 1800 when less breakable yarn became available . |
20 | Farideh Cadot offers us the penetrating lyrical vision of the late Daniel Tremblay , who worked with a range of disparate materials . |
21 | Further disparities appeared on the home furnishings front ; the standard English width of 21-inch wallpaper rolls was unknown to American decorators , who worked with a 28-inch standard , mostly vinyl , paper . |
22 | The name given to an Icelandic shepherd who worked for a farmer named Thorwall . |
23 | Mr Mafouz , a big , jolly man who worked for a travel agent , was compiling a dossier on him . |
24 | ( Their father , who worked for a specialist printer , died three-and-a-half years ago . ) |
25 | The death by drowning of a girl who worked for a Minister of the Crown and who died after dining at the restaurant where the Minister 's wife was also dining , whether or not he himself was present , would normally have justified at least a brief paragraph in one of the national papers . |
26 | It ends months of financial worry for Alan Govier , who worked for a printing firm for forty-nine years . |
27 | The list of British craft union leaders of this period is filled with men who worked for a spell in the United States or somewhere else overseas , as they might have worked for a spell in Newcastle or Barrow-in-Furness . |
28 | No wonder he could n't understand anyone who worked for a living . |
29 | Troy Hurtibese , who worked for a bungee team called the Adrenalin Rush Adventurers , died on the way to hospital . |
30 | It was also during this period that we had the strangest set of photographs taken of us , by Peter Christopherson who worked for a design company , Hipgnosis — whose offices were at the back of our Denmark Street HQ — and who later joined Throbbing Gristle , a band best known for tabloid spreads on their occult practices . |