Example sentences of "he work [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | They 've had to come out of retirement , she to help in a hairdressers , he to work in a shop . |
2 | What did he work for a living ? |
3 | 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 ) . |
4 | He then came to Britain , where he worked on a farm and in a Blackburn cotton mill . |
5 | In the summer of his second year at university he worked at a butcher 's . |
6 | He worked at a car body repair shop in Frampton on Severn . |
7 | So now he worked for a taxi firm . |
8 | He worked for a furniture manufacturer and was an active member of CNT , the anarchist trades union . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | When James left school he worked for a while with his father . |
11 | Mr Bolona is equally welcome in financial circles in North America , where he worked for a time as a consultant on Latin American debt . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | As well as studying electronics and computing for his degree , he worked for a diploma in industrial management . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | And he went round and I 'll tell you what , he worked with a man called Ross . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | Self-taught , he worked as a shipping clerk in Madras until the mathematician George Hardy saw his work and invited him to England . |
19 | He worked as a lift-boy in one of the smaller French hotels , moonlighting occasionally , and serving drinks in a café in the evenings . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | Later he worked as a test pilot for Chance Vought , who arranged his secondment as an ‘ observer ’ with the USAAF in the Pacific . |
23 | He worked as a tunnel inspector and when there was no work available for him in London , he was offered work in Newcastle . |
24 | He worked as a servant to a Brahmin but wrote plays in his spare time and believed firmly in land reform . |
25 | 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 ] . |
26 | He moved to London where he worked as a gardener with the Greater London Council and became editor of the Irish Militant . |
27 | Beforehand he worked as a probation officer for Berkshire Probation Service and later as a research officer for Somerset Probation Service where he undertook the research reported here . |
28 | Between 1863 and 1872 he worked as a demonstrator at the Pharmaceutical Society under Professor John Attfield ; he also obtained a B.Sc. |
29 | After ordination he worked as a chaplain with German prisoners of war for the YMCA and from 1948 as secretary for German affairs with the British Council of Churches Inter Church Aid and Refugee Service , the forerunner of Christian Aid . |
30 | After ordination he worked as a chaplain with German prisoners of war for the YMCA and from 1948 as secretary for German affairs with the British Council of Churches Inter Church Aid and Refugee Service , the forerunner of Christian Aid . |