Example sentences of "i work [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it , it , at least it 's gold , I mean , I , I , I was in the jewellery trade when I first left school , between school and national service I worked at a manufacturing jewellers in Birmingham and I 've never really gone along with the idea that nine carat is actually gold . |
| 2 | ‘ … after that I worked as a secretary . |
| 3 | I worked as a researcher for him for so long I became part of the furniture , I really did . |
| 4 | I worked as a dress machinist . |
| 5 | During this period I worked as a computer programmer in Accra for a year . |
| 6 | Before the hon. Gentleman gets up , let me say that I worked as a probation officer in the King 's Cross area , which was one of the most difficult areas for homelessness in the 1970s . |
| 7 | I worked as a lodge boy . |
| 8 | ‘ The idea came to me because as a 15-year-old I worked as a plumber in churches and was impressed by the windows , ’ said Dave . |
| 9 | Many years ago I worked as a Time and Motion Study ( Work Study ) officer in industry , where the question was always : why ca n't all workers produce the output achieved by the best workers ? |
| 10 | Yet to give instant opinions on the long term impact of the many educational reports , speeches , Parliamentary debates , learned researches , books , ideas and happenings which marked the years through which I worked as a teacher was quite impossible . |
| 11 | After being off work ( I worked as a driving instructor and sitting was the worst position to be in ) for six weeks the pain was no better , if anything it was worse . |
| 12 | In my youth ( many years ago ) I worked as a redcoat at Butlin 's in Bognor Regis and used to be House Captain of York where we trained teams of holidaymakers to go as fast as possible . |
| 13 | It brought back sad memories of when I worked as a kennel maid . |
| 14 | Before I was elected to the House , I worked as a solicitor in a law centre in Leicester where I dealt with many immigration cases . |
| 15 | ‘ I remember being fascinated by the story when I worked for a while in the Royal Library . |
| 16 | ‘ I worked for a bit when I was about eighteen . |
| 17 | I worked for a month then I went to the dyers and cleaners and I came home to Ipswich in the , on the Easter time and I started work as a turnboy on the dredger at Ipswich at thirty five shillings a week for fi sixty six and a half hours a week , starting from Monday morning at six o'clock to six o'clock Monday night . |
| 18 | Some years ago I worked with a golfer who had achieved a considerable amount of success , winning several amateur trophies . |
| 19 | I worked with a man whose severe stroke left him only able to say ‘ Yes , yes , yes ’ . |
| 20 | Well I worked with a man , on a machine . |
| 21 | I remember once I got on to Norton because there was this I wanted to get to but I did do some shepherding there , and that was another fun , carrying , and that 's a winter job , carrying the sheep hurdling , hurdles and stakes , I worked with a gypsy , a Romany gypsy , and he could n't speak very much , and tended to sing , as if something not quite right about him . |
| 22 | Some continued to make a stance and in 1982 I worked with a sergeant who lovingly took out his old city cap each nightshift and wore it as a symbol of everything which had been lost in 1969 , when , as the station graffiti had then affirmed , ‘ T.J.F. ’ and a fall from Eden had occurred . |
| 23 | Throughout the secondment period , I worked with a number of groups and committees set-up within the QAU . |
| 24 | I worked on a farm … ’ |
| 25 | I worked on a farm . |
| 26 | I worked like a Trojan , clearing , cleaning , painting and refurbishing , until the old solar on the ground floor of our manor house gleamed as fresh and as opulent as one of the great Halls of Cambridge . |
| 27 | I worked in a dairy for about three months . |
| 28 | I worked in a copper mine for nearly three years , 18 hours a day , seven days a week . |
| 29 | " I worked in a factory making bingo books . |
| 30 | ‘ I worked in a crèche before I had to give that up to look after Gran . |