Example sentences of "he work [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The master , A. D. Lindsay ( later first Baron Lindsay of Birker , q.v. ) , encouraged him to work for a spell ( 1927–8 ) at a Quaker settlement for the unemployed in the Rhondda Valley — an experience which made a deep impression . |
| 2 | This condition has now cleared allowing him to work as a lecturer on City ethics and a consultant . |
| 3 | And I make him work like a dog ! |
| 4 | And of course wi ’ him working in a mill , there was n't any shortage of volunteers . |
| 5 | They 've had to come out of retirement , she to help in a hairdressers , he to work in a shop . |
| 6 | What did he work for a living ? |
| 7 | He wrote The Sermon on the Mount : For Sunday School Teachers ( 1937 ) , and back in Tientsin , he worked on a Manual of Christian Discipline , to be translated into Chinese for the guidance of Chinese pastors , and published Prayers for Daily Use ( 1942 ) . |
| 8 | He then came to Britain , where he worked on a farm and in a Blackburn cotton mill . |
| 9 | In the summer of his second year at university he worked at a butcher 's . |
| 10 | He worked at a car body repair shop in Frampton on Severn . |
| 11 | So now he worked for a taxi firm . |
| 12 | He worked for a furniture manufacturer and was an active member of CNT , the anarchist trades union . |
| 13 | He worked for a firm in the area of London , and that company began to negotiate with one of our Ministries for the sale of their products to the Soviet Union . |
| 14 | When James left school he worked for a while with his father . |
| 15 | Mr Bolona is equally welcome in financial circles in North America , where he worked for a time as a consultant on Latin American debt . |
| 16 | He worked for a time with Stopover House and the Newham Alternative Project , both designed to provide temporary help for the poor and homeless of the East End . |
| 17 | As well as studying electronics and computing for his degree , he worked for a diploma in industrial management . |
| 18 | One of them was his habitual slowness , especially in handling and totting up cash ; for , before he took up duties in the foreign exchange department of Lloyds in the semi-basement room at the branch at 20 King William Street ( no wonder that the eyes and back , at the end of the day , turned ‘ upward ’ from the desk ) , he worked for a period behind the counter . |
| 19 | During the first few months he worked with a gang of local road-menders , filling pot-holes on the highway , smoothing cambers , paving the dirt tracks that led to ranches . |
| 20 | And he went round and I 'll tell you what , he worked with a man called Ross . |
| 21 | Previously he worked with a flooring contractor and has also extensive experience in the Architectural and Specifiers field gained with a design and build company . |
| 22 | Self-taught , he worked as a shipping clerk in Madras until the mathematician George Hardy saw his work and invited him to England . |
| 23 | He worked as a lift-boy in one of the smaller French hotels , moonlighting occasionally , and serving drinks in a café in the evenings . |
| 24 | He was awarded his BA in 1898 , and during the years between that date and 1903 he worked as a schoolmaster and tried a number of other jobs . |
| 25 | He was a very much larger than life character who it is understood , although it may not be strictly true , was sacked three times by his company for which he worked as a salesman . |
| 26 | Later he worked as a test pilot for Chance Vought , who arranged his secondment as an ‘ observer ’ with the USAAF in the Pacific . |
| 27 | He worked as a tunnel inspector and when there was no work available for him in London , he was offered work in Newcastle . |
| 28 | He worked as a servant to a Brahmin but wrote plays in his spare time and believed firmly in land reform . |
| 29 | There he worked as a gardener for Sir John Blencowe ( 1642–1726 ) who had been the Member of Parliament for Brackley from 1690–1695 , and from 1696 –1714 had served as a Baron of the Exchequer and Justice of Common Pleas [ DNB , 2 , 672–3 ] . |
| 30 | He moved to London where he worked as a gardener with the Greater London Council and became editor of the Irish Militant . |