Example sentences of "had worked [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Menchu , the ninth woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize , had worked as a cotton picker and domestic servant in Guatemala before acquiring an international reputation in 1983 following the publication of her autobiography I , Rigoberta . |
| 2 | Leo had dragged himself up from the East End , where his father , a first-generation Jewish immigrant from the Ukraine , had worked as a tailor 's cutter ; James , on the other hand , had had one of those privileged English upbringings . |
| 3 | Since then , he and his mum had struggled on together in Oxford where she had worked as a secretary in the Austin plant and had met Ken , a big , happy-go-lucky but ambitious bear of a man . |
| 4 | She had worked as a secretary before , at the age of 19 years , marrying Mr. O'Brien . |
| 5 | Moira Braybrooke was one of Bernard 's most imaginative appointments since she had neither retail nor fashion trade experience ; she had worked as a secretary in Monte Carlo , had style , good looks and an exotic family background . |
| 6 | Some of the students were African and her tutor , Mrs Baggott , had worked as a missionary in Nigeria . |
| 7 | Chief executive Mr Richard Sutherland said the partners at the practice did not know he had worked as a locum at Bolton Royal Infirmary and the doctor had not told the infirmary he was HIV positive . |
| 8 | They did not know that he had worked as a locum at Bolton Royal Infirmary and the doctor did not tell the infirmary that he was HIV positive before or after he was employed for six shifts in the casualty department . |
| 9 | Lowe had worked as a researcher for the Financial Times , Hayling had done his stint with the BBC , and of course they had dabbled in the Big Flame paper and other fringe publications . |
| 10 | Kim had worked as a taxi driver for about five years . |
| 11 | He had worked as a farmer and it was feared his long term exposure to pesticides may have led to his ill health . |
| 12 | The Irish-born bishop had worked as a member of the Catholic Church in Malawi for 20 years and was one of the signatories of a Lenten pastoral letter which condemned human rights abuses [ ibid . ] . |
| 13 | Some of the more important include George Blake , who worked for MI6 ( see Chapter 2 ) ; John Cairncross , who betrayed Ultra secrets from the Government Code & Cipher School ( GCCS ) at Bletchley Park during the war to the Russians ; John Vassall , a sad homosexual who gave away naval secrets while working at the Admiralty ; Frank Bossard , who gave the Russians details of British and American guided weapons systems ( which must have amused them greatly as the Russians were far ahead of the West at the time ) ; and William Marshall , who had worked as a cipher clerk at the British Embassy in Moscow . |
| 14 | Mr Miles had worked as a panelbeater for Martin Pollard Bodyshops in Frampton for ten years : |
| 15 | Pauline Edwards had worked as a nurse at the hospital since it opened seven years ago . |
| 16 | The first was a Carol Pearson , of Muswell Hill , interesting to him because she had worked as a hairdresser 's improver at a shop in Eastcheap . |
| 17 | Clara and Rebecca had worked as a team before this but today they were on different jobs . |
| 18 | Almost broke , she had worked as a telephonist at an escort agency whispering secret promises to paying clients , and as a hostess in a Soho club catering for Japanese businessmen . |
| 19 | She was reported missing by her boyfriend , Peter Hook , 25 , who discovered her body with the help of an official from Turning Point , the drugs advisory charity for which she had worked as a counsellor for three years . |
| 20 | At first Sophie listened with only mild interest as the other girl spoke of her involvement in veterinary work , which had begun when she had worked as a receptionist in a large practice in Shropshire , where Robert had been senior assistant . |
| 21 | Ms Magee , who has a local taxi driver as a boyfriend , had worked as a barmaid in local public houses and clubs . |
| 22 | His father had worked as a coal miner in Castleford in Yorkshire and , after completing his shelter drawings , Moore revisited his home town to make sketches and drawings of mining as part of the war effort . |
| 23 | It was a long time since she had been awakened by the dream — not since she had worked as a journalist with Query — but meeting Felipe de Santis had stirred it all up . |
| 24 | It seems possible that he had worked as a journeyman for Rastell on some part of the massive volumes of Sir Anthony Fitzherbert 's Graunde abbregement , 1516 , and its Table , 1517 ( Short-Title Catalogue 10954–5 ) . |
| 25 | At the time of his arrest Wallace , who had worked as a DJ on Radio Pattaya , a commercial station serving the Thai beach resort , said : ‘ I am not worried . |
| 26 | A woman I spoke to in Coventry lives with her two children and husband , had worked as a cashier , a canteen assistant , a barmaid and a bingo cashier until she was sacked for organising a union . |
| 27 | ( 40 ) She explained that she had worked as a volunteer in the parish and had felt that in doing this she was sharing his ministry — how ask him to give it up ? |
| 28 | The oldest woman in the refuge had worked as a railway clerk , in a sausage factory , a pop factory and in a factory making bingo boards until she stopped working a few years earlier and was put on invalidity benefit . |
| 29 | Before becoming a merchant banker , he had worked as a barman , waiter and later a salesman . |
| 30 | He told me once that he had worked as a farm hand for six shillings a day for thirty years , yet still managed to save enough to buy his own little place . |