Example sentences of "work there [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over there they have lots of servants , and her mother asks me if I would like to work there for a year , looking after Charlotte , so that Nicola could come and stay with them . |
| 2 | Yes , Devlin had worked there for a while , but he 'd left three days ago . |
| 3 | I 've had first hand er experience of the States because I 've worked there for a couple of years . |
| 4 | Like Jos , her brother had worked there as a boy . |
| 5 | His father also worked there as a maintenance man , retiring after 51 years service . |
| 6 | Stealing from the camp one night with only his rifle and iron rations , wading the river at the border , finding a sympathetic ship 's captain to take him to Sweden , working there for a while and then making his way down through Poland and Germany and the rest of Europe , village by village , shtetl by shtetl , always moving west , America the ultimate goal , until he reached Cork . |
| 7 | Elsewhere in this issue , Isabel Wolff reports on the inspiring life of Rigoberta Menchu , a indefatigable defender of human rights of indigenous people in Central America ; Ian Williams describes his experience in Somalia while working there as a nurse during the worst of the 1992 famine ; and we publish an extract from The Princess , an anonymous account of the treatment of women in Saudi Arabia . |
| 8 | Because my elder sister she left home when she was about sixteen I think , she went erm into she was working there as a matron 's maid . |