Example sentences of "and work [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The critic , too , according to Baudelaire has a right to be independent , and to work without a system ‘ which is a kind of damnation which forces one to a perpetual recantation ’ . |
| 2 | One such company took a finance director of a subsidiary out of the business for a whole year , sent him to Harvard for an abbreviated MBA and to work for a merchant bank in the City . |
| 3 | He returned to London to run a picture agency and to work as a photojournalist . |
| 4 | But what upset her particularly was the last sentence : ‘ I should go and work for a week in one of my shops but — though I could even sleep on the factory floor — I ca n't understand people working in shops . ’ |
| 5 | You can actually go and work for a living . |
| 6 | ‘ You do n't need to go and work as a librarian abroad , for God 's sake . |
| 7 | If you want to learn more about horses you either have to go and work in a training yard or enrol for a college-based course — right ? |
| 8 | ‘ He comes from Achiltibuie , and worked for a bit at the hydroponics there . |
| 9 | So do major prints by Sam Francis ( who lived and worked for a while in Japan ) . |
| 10 | He added : ‘ Derby gave us plenty of problems when we drew there , but we stood up to them and worked for a result . |
| 11 | He joined Guinness in 1952 as an Under Brewer and worked for a number of years on 24 hour shifts under the guidance of the late . |
| 12 | This was the man , it should always be remembered , who joined the British army and worked as a stretcher bearer in the Zulu rebellion of 1906 , giving as his reason that ‘ the British empire existed for the welfare of the world ’ . |
| 13 | Born in St Andrews , his father was a mechanic to trade and worked as a service manager . |
| 14 | Sandra trained as a dancer and worked as a theatre set painter and then a trapeze artist . |
| 15 | He was from Sheffield and worked as a clerk , and was in a fundamentalist evangelical crusade . |
| 16 | To raise the money for Greece he went to Ipswich , the nearest city to Plumford , and worked as a labourer at a warehouse belonging to a mail-order company . |
| 17 | In the early 1980s Damon took a business studies course at South Bank Polytechnic , converted some houses in South London , and worked as a motorcycle dispatch rider . |
| 18 | Other hill farms are owned and worked as a unit linked with a lowland farm . |
| 19 | One of these brothers , George Mould ( 1843–1908 ) , was born in Whitchurch and worked as a railway clerk before he went in search of a new life on the other side of the world . |
| 20 | In 1963 he emigrated to Israel , took a certificate in Community Social Work in Tel Aviv and worked as a community worker in an immigrant development town . |
| 21 | He was educated privately and at Columbia Law School , and worked as a lawyer and in the family estates before entering the New York State Assembly as a Republican in 1877 . |
| 22 | He 'd lived in thestreet for thirty two years … and worked as a scout or college servant at Trinity College . |
| 23 | She signed up for two employment agencies : Solve Your Problems and Knightsbridge Nannies , and worked as a waitress at private parties and as a charlady . |
| 24 | The defendant did leave and worked as a milkman for a competitor of his former employer . |
| 25 | He qualified as a teacher , a Licentiate of the College of Preceptors , and worked as a crammer at the Victoria Tutorial College . |
| 26 | Although , strictly speaking , the bearers were not assigned to individuals and worked as a pool , carrying messages for anybody in the building , in practice they identified themselves with particular people . |
| 27 | David was born in Glasgow and worked as a motor mechanic . |
| 28 | He had fled to England in the early 70s and worked as a miner but later returned to the province through ill health . |
| 29 | In 1816 he joined the increasing flow of Irish migrants to Britain , and worked as a cotton-spinner in Manchester . |
| 30 | He , too , was a writer and worked at a brewery — as Havel had done — keeping his thoughts to himself . |