Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] works [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a partnership which works to the benefit of the patient . |
| 2 | In future the computer expert will be the outsider who works for the manufacturer or as an independent adviser . |
| 3 | Other winners of the award , sponsored by Reckitt and Colman , included Cherrill Hicks , a freelance journalist who works on The Independent 's health page , for her book Who Cares ; Looking After People at Home . |
| 4 | Erm some lady who works for the council or something . |
| 5 | She is your wife , not an automaton who works around the place . |
| 6 | One girl who works at the Space Center seems almost beside herself — she was planning to come to tonight 's gig , but after a late night last week her parents ( strict Christians ) grounded her and took away her ticket . |
| 7 | ‘ There 's a girl who works in the hospital who I think might … |
| 8 | First , Matthew 's secretary , the girl who works in the office next door , turned up for work as usual this morning ; she lives a few miles out and she knew nothing of what had happened . ’ |
| 9 | A policeman who works in the area describes Avenue as a nightmare of a crossing and I and other parents who have to take children across would entirely agree with this . |
| 10 | ‘ Every day he works with the defence and makes sure everything is tight . |
| 11 | We have an Ecumenical Group in the parish which works under the direction of Fr. |
| 12 | There 's the producer , the associate producer , the director , the production assistant who works with the director , and the team of researchers . |
| 13 | ‘ The Labour Party must produce policies which convince voters that their own prosperity depends on a government which takes active responsibility to promote a strong economy and that their own security — and that of their families — is best advanced by a government which works for the welfare of the whole community . ’ |
| 14 | So if you can imagine the food being cooked in there and if you like , plated up in here and while the butler , the man who works in the butlery or the buttery does the drink , the pantler , the man who looks after the bread is plating the food out there . |
| 15 | Mr Lloyd , 39 , a councillor who works on the Ford assembly line in Southampton , is used to hopeless cases : his first political action as a child was to take the newsboys on his street out on strike . |
| 16 | This apparently is the system which works in the family : ‘ He does favours for them and they do favours back ’ ( Pahl R.E. , 1984 , p. 340 ) . |
| 17 | One detective who works in the area said : ‘ We are working very long hours tracking these people but when we bring them in , legal impediment after legal impediment is thrown up in our faces . |
| 18 | I very much thank THE LORD for the NHS and the way he works through the medicines and staff . |
| 19 | So in general terms , I agree with you , and that 's the way it works with the exceptions I mentioned . |
| 20 | The only time the ace dealer comes a cropper here is when he stumbles across a client who works in the oil trade . |
| 21 | The following type of story might be told by the best man , a friend , or groom who works in the bride 's family business : |