Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] worked [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of the hours I worked at the newspaper office I hardly ever saw any television . |
| 2 | For some months I worked in the Information Department of the British Embassy , where I was engaged in propaganda , which included writing leaders for the Iraq Times . |
| 3 | Four porters who worked at the Heathrow Penta Hotel refused to meet or greet guests , deliver keys to rooms or move luggage if a guest transferred to a new room . |
| 4 | and his , his er son was one of the lads who worked in the office doing the middle turn , you see , and er I do n't know if he 's still alive . |
| 5 | Railwaymen who worked in the area had been so overcome by a feeling of evil that pervaded a particular location that they refused to work the night-shift that involved going near the place in question . |
| 6 | The main issues in the by-election campaign which worked to the disadvantage of the governing Conservative Party were the community charge ( poll tax ) being introduced in England and Wales at the beginning of April [ see below ] , high interest and mortgage rates [ see also p. 37165 ] , reform of the National Health Service [ see pp. 36503 ; 37158 ] , and education reforms [ see pp. 36502 ; 37158 ] . |
| 7 | Half the children had parents who worked in the evening , anyway , and the other half left their children to decide for themselves . |
| 8 | I did have a chin tuck , and the lady who worked on the book with me said , ‘ Now , Elizabeth , you know we 're going to be together for months and we have to be absolutely honest with each other . |
| 9 | There were only half a dozen sergeants in the mess , but the numbers were made up by the civilian engineers who worked on the project . |
| 10 | Design faults at the Susquehanna nuclear power station in Pennsylvania would make it impossible for operators to control a nuclear accident , according to engineers who worked on the plant 's construction . |
| 11 | Syl was trying with kindling glances and doubles entendres to enthral the girl who worked in the gallery . |
| 12 | The girl who worked in the garden . |
| 13 | Davies was also skilled at constructing local earthworks to prevent flooding by the Severn and his earned him his first big contract from the Montgomeryshire Public Works Engineer , Thomas Penson ( presumably the same Penson of Oswestry who worked with the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway and was responsible for the design of stations including the recently refurbished Gobowen station and Shrewsbury 's joint station ) . |
| 14 | In the south around the centres of population part-time farmers worked mainly in urban areas as teachers , advisers or tradesmen , whilst in more remote areas they worked in the forests , in the hydro-electricity industry , or as lorry/bus drivers . |
| 15 | Periodically he returned to his Australian roots , but for long periods he worked in the UK . |
| 16 | The old docks , part converted to smart new houses and flats for the Yuppies who worked in the City , but with areas still near-derelict , abandoned wharves and warehouses . |
| 17 | Graham Evans , of Blundellsands , was an apprentice who worked on the Spirit of Merseyside and later served aboard as bosun . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | During the war I worked for the women 's voluntary service and shortly afterwards I went abroad for a few years , returning in the late 1940s , divorced with three children . |
| 20 | For over twenty years I worked under the delusion that I was teaching maths . |
| 21 | The second story came from Branson himself , and arose from a tip-off from a journalist named Carla Dobson who worked as the assistant to the Daily Mail gossip-columnist Nigel Dempster . |
| 22 | Yong 's father was appalled at the idea , but was finally persuaded to invest in fifty tons of raw salt , to be used in the curing of the venison which abounded in the Eastern islands , as well as several hundred plastic chairs , and a quantity of spare diving equipment for the pearl-shellers who worked for the Aru branch of the Tan family . |
| 23 | John always said that they spent more money restoring the facade than they ever spent on the thousands of workers who worked inside the plant , but then when it closed they could n't knock it down , so they turned it into a superstore . |
| 24 | This protectiveness has been especially strong in Sian , as before we got here there was an ‘ incident ’ in which an Australian girl teaching at the Foreign Language Institute was attacked and injured ( a fractured scull ) by a son of one of the workers who worked in the Institute . |
| 25 | Yet another story tells of a young ostler who worked at the inn . |
| 26 | A gynaecologist who worked in the Maternity " Hospital in San Salvador saw at least five women every day who were suffering from serious complications after a badly performed abortion . |
| 27 | In addition to the civil suit , Quebec provincial police and Montreal city police are investigating scores of possible criminal cases against individuals who worked in the hospitals and orphanages . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . |
| 29 | During the Second World War he worked in the production of aero-engine components and served as engineer officer with the Clevedon Fire Brigade . |
| 30 | While at Cambridge he worked on the problem of the stability of Saturn 's rings . |