Example sentences of "i work [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ You 're asking me to work round the police department here . ’
2 For over twenty years I worked under the delusion that I was teaching maths .
3 I worked through the night to get them done and then drove to her house where she was confined to bed , ’ says Alan .
4 The particular one hundred words in this case categories as follows : this is the order in which I worked through the set .
5 I explained that I worked during the winter for a golf-mad stockbroker called Andrew Buccleuth whom I had met during my year on the amateur circuit .
6 Because of the hours I worked at the newspaper office I hardly ever saw any television .
7 The Wheel Tapper pub behind the railway station in Taunton was my haven when I worked at the art college there in the late 1960s and early 1970s .
8 I worked at the London Palace Hotel as a chambermaid for three years .
9 For I worked at the council they were trying to make a road there then .
10 Earlies er when I worked at the Ford Motor Company it meant getting from Ilford to Dagenham and starting on a machine at six A M in the morning , in the middle of winter or the middle of summer .
11 I worked at the Bank of Scotland on a three-week attachment in my fifth year at school , ’ he recalls .
12 I worked at the Star Club and some other clubs in Hamburg .
13 I worked at the billeting office until the school reopened .
14 After I left the council , I worked for the council for ten years and then I stopped the council in nineteen forty six for I I telled you that afore have I .
15 and I worked for the council so he spoke to me one day and he said , Will you cut the roads with a tractor and a mower .
16 Then I worked for the BBC — my favourite charity , really .
17 I worked for the rest of the morning and in the late afternoon , rang Highbury to tell them I was safely back and ask how they fared .
18 ‘ The things I 've seen in them vats when I worked for the brewery . ’
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 ‘ To begin with , I worked for the family , pushing the churns round the streets on the milk-cart , but then I got too old for that , and I applied for work with the Dock workers Guild at Jubilee Wharf . ’
21 I 'd told her I worked for the Post and she said she 'd already told Rain all about it . ’
22 When I got a bit older I worked with the horses in the fields , particularly at haytiming .
23 I worked with the FBI , the US Secret Service , the thirty-one diplomatic groups and the individual protection teams .
24 I worked with the Sweepers .
25 It should be clear to anybody that the basic idea behind the prison system is corrupt and unjust , but the more I worked on the film , the more I understood how extreme the injustice was .
26 I worked on the course green-keeping in the winter at Birkdale , and spent all summer caddying .
27 You see , usually I worked on the accounts and managed the estate .
28 Later on I worked on the twilight shift in a components factory and as our kids grew up people moved out and others moved in .
29 Denis and I worked on the show each morning and on our final evening we performed it in ninety degree heat for a deeply moved and even more deeply biased audience of mutual families .
30 Would n't leave me all through the following night as I worked on the glass .
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