Example sentences of "he worked [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although not an outstanding boxer himself , he assisted a number of other young boxers including the more famous ex-slave champion Tom Molyneux in whose corner he worked during the Virginian 's classic fight with the English heavyweight champion Tom Cribb in December 1810 , Cribb finishing victorious ( Egan , 1812 ) . |
| 2 | He worked outside the city , and was sometimes away for days at a time . |
| 3 | In spite of these reservations , he worked on the rest of the poem very quickly and its last three sections were drafted before the end of that month . |
| 4 | He worked on the Cromford canal linking the mill of Richard Arkwright [ q.v. ] in Bradford and the Derbyshire coalfield . |
| 5 | Here he worked on the home ground of his old master , Adam Sedgwick , and began his long continued interest in Lower Palaeozoic stratigraphy . |
| 6 | He worked on the sets with a minature theatre stage in Los Angeles for nine months and , unusually for a set designer , he has attended every minute of rehearsals in London . |
| 7 | He worked on the buses when he arrived , showed me a canopy in front of a hotel that he 'd brought down on his first solo drive . |
| 8 | So he worked on the nocturne by day , mindful of the contradiction . |
| 9 | He worked on the land until joining up in 1914 . |
| 10 | While at Cambridge he worked on the problem of the stability of Saturn 's rings . |
| 11 | Having to choose between being ‘ poor in Oxford or comfortable in Aber. ’ , he chose Aberystwyth , where he worked on the university magazine , published his first poems and stories , and dabbled in left-wing politics . |
| 12 | He then surveyed for a French company a number of railway lines in Italy and Switzerland , before returning to England , where he worked on the Birmingham and Wolverhampton Railway and the Kennet and Avon and Stourbridge canals . |
| 13 | River rescue : Workman Anthony Robson , 33 , from Cleveland , was rescued from the River Tyne by marine police after falling from scaffolding as he worked on the Scotswood Bridge in Newcastle yesterday . |
| 14 | He was in Canada in 1908–9 prospecting and surveying ; he worked on the Lagos Railway in West Africa 1910–11 , and in 1912 was employed as an engineer by the United Railways of Havana . |
| 15 | And then suddenly we find the district auditor making comments about an environmental strategy , which I would have thought was , if he worked on the basis of the last one , rather outside his remit . |
| 16 | He worked on the family farm before the First World War ; enlisted in the army and became a captain ; and after the war sank his savings into a clothing store , and lost them when it failed . |
| 17 | Then in the afternoon she played with Diana , or talked happily to Matthew while he worked on the farm . |
| 18 | He worked on the farm until four o'clock in the afternoon . |
| 19 | Reflected Glory reunites him with writer Ronald Harwood and director Elijah Moskinsky , with whom he worked on the stage production of Another Time a few years ago . |
| 20 | She had been surprised how hard he worked on the place . |
| 21 | He worked on the staff of the Law Society from 1958 to 1964 , having first taken articles with Maxwell Batley & Co , in London . |
| 22 | He was only clear about the classification as he worked through the foundations of his pragmatism and metaphysics in the 1890s , but it represents the systematization of a set of views that he had been groping towards since the 1860s . |
| 23 | There he worked through the sessions with Alec Smith , the Prime Minister 's son . |
| 24 | Because clients might not have accepted his African name , he worked under the pseudonym of Peter Mackenzie . |
| 25 | Alford Grammar school also had a hand in the education of Captain John Smith before he went to Louth and Thomas Paine , famous for abolishing slavery in Pennsylvania and for his written works , in particular ‘ The Rights of Man ’ , lived here for several years when he worked at the Excise Office . |
| 26 | He worked at the hotel did n't he ? |
| 27 | During the first world war , he worked at the Allahabad Agricultural Institute , and after it , at the invitation of Rabindranath Tagore , founded the Department of Rural Reconstruction in Bengal . |
| 28 | ( Henry ) Wooden , his valet for seven years who on his marriage left his service and came to Henley where he worked at the Brewery for 30 years . |
| 29 | Well he was as far as I can remember he was thirty eight he , he went he worked at the Gas Works , ca n't remember much about that really but er I think he 'd actually been working nights and came home and actually died in bed I believe . |
| 30 | He worked at the Applecross Cafe as chef yet was called sometimes to serve the most pernickety ‘ skinnys ’ who reused to be served by Joy . |