Example sentences of "work [prep] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But who wants to work in a solicitors ? |
| 2 | The one complication is that all Windows applications place the same sort of minimum demands on a machine and so if you want to work in a Windows environment you will have to add the extra requirements to machine fit to run Windows . |
| 3 | Rosellina was on her way to Rimini , to work in a children 's village set up for orphans and children who had become separated from their families . |
| 4 | Mrs. Millings was pleased at being called " Miss " , and the excitement of being taken to work in a police car was another pleasing thought . |
| 5 | Now what I want us to do is to look at these questions er because we 're being tape recorded , I am not going to give you time to work on a questions |
| 6 | Now that two of you are married and a couple of you are starting families , does the band work as a lads ' escape ? |
| 7 | If they 're gon na be driving from village to village , they might as well work from a police station and drive from village to village in a transit van or a police vehicle . |
| 8 | He worked as a sports salesman , a bingo hall caller and a fruit seller before joining the Royal Navy . |
| 9 | Mr Montignac says he discovered his ‘ method ’ while lunching in fancy European restaurants when he worked for a drugs company . |
| 10 | Because of a longstanding health condition , her father was not considered physically suitable for the armed forces and so he worked in a munitions factory not too far from their home . |
| 11 | She had worked as a children 's nurse in Wirral hospitals for 20 years before taking a post with the local social services department , assisting young families in need . |
| 12 | I work for a sports info service and would be interested to see how they are going to do their version . |
| 13 | I had been working as a dai ( midwife ) for the Government since 1974 , but I resigned when they stopped paying my salary and only paid me if I brought in patients to be sterilized . |
| 14 | This list is not intended to be exhaustive , and certainly does not include areas where your nursing qualification is used indirectly , such as working as a children 's nanny or as a sales representative for a pharmaceutical or product manufacturer . |
| 15 | A director of one licensed dealer rang up a former employee working for a stockbrokers , addressing him as follows : " You took our clients with you , you little shit . |
| 16 | Yet in casual conversation with the wife of a working colleague , Jean discovers that-Peter is just the same at the computer business where he now works as a systems manager . |
| 17 | Nicholas Turner , a director of the French bank where Mark Newall works as a derivatives trader , the Banque Arabe et Internationale d'Investissements , said : ‘ Mark Newall has been employed by the BAII group since 1986 . |
| 18 | At the local community level , Ms Urizio has devoted much of her time to working with a grassroots action group in an underprivileged area of Rome . |
| 19 | After a short period working with a girls ' club in Lambeth ( an LMH settlement ) , she became involved in the non-militant suffrage movement . |
| 20 | Dr Chick is working with a chemicals firm , W. R. Grace , on an artificial liver . |
| 21 | oh I can assure you I work , I work in a women 's unit and I can assure you its still frowned on by lots of people . |
| 22 | like if you ever work in a children 's ward you can always tell the children that 've been hospitalised for a great length of time cos you can do anything with them |
| 23 | Like their father , and Milly their help , who was working in a munitions factory , and Bongo their dog ( their mother had n't said what had happened to him ) she belonged somewhere else . |
| 24 | That sounds like something that they might have at the end of term or something done by an adult working in a steelworks . |
| 25 | She says the nearest thing she 's done to this was working in a scouts ' gang show . |
| 26 | quite a coincidence your experience of working in a children 's home |
| 27 | The Stairs came together ‘ gradually ’ , according to Edgar ; he and guitarist Ged Lynn actually met while working on a YTS scheme , and formed the band two years ago . |
| 28 | UK , Leeds-based VisonWare Ltd 's mystery announcement ( UX No 389 ) turned out to be a technology partnership with fellow UK company Alex Technologies Ltd , Ealing , West London : the two are working on a Windows version of Alex development environment , which currently allows an X-Windows front end to be added to character-based applications . |
| 29 | To encourage developers to write more modular software that can take advantage of systems that support Threads — a Thread can be any part of an application or programme that is not dependent on the result or outcome of another ( that can be treated as a task in its own right ) — Posix has a committee working on a Threads application programming interface standard . |
| 30 | The idea for the play came about while Dei was still at college , working at a women 's refuge and writing a play about battered women . |