Example sentences of "who worked [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had he pressed on he might none the less have taken Newcastle , which contained many Jacobite sympathisers , but while he dallied , turning aside to Hexham , 15 miles [ 24 km ] west of the city , the Newcastle magistrates called out the militia and trained bands , mobilised a force of 700 tough keelmen , who worked on the lighters in the harbour , patched up the ancient city wall , though they lacked cannon to defend it , and bricked up the gates . |
| 2 | In theory , those who worked on the farms were capable of supporting themselves . |
| 3 | Both end walls have paintings of 1710 by the Jesuit , Tausch , a copyist who worked on the cartoons of the Italian fresco painter , Andrea del Pozzo . |
| 4 | He could tell she was upset by the words she used : bad words he had often heard from the men who worked with the pigs or came to the house to drink with Buddie in the music-room . |
| 5 | The Kurds who worked for the Turks killed her husband and children . |
| 6 | The evil paedophile , who worked for the prisons charity NIACRO , preyed on youngsters using his position of trust with the St. Lazarus ' ambulance corps . |
| 7 | Levi was a tax-collector who worked for the Romans . |
| 8 | Just as men 's muscularity was and is celebrated in the histories , so was another man fascinated by the muscularity of women who worked at the pitheads . |
| 9 | The ones who knew , the men of his own class , the men who worked in the mills with him , they were unconvinced … |
| 10 | probably the men who worked in the cisterns used them as a means of travelling from one side of the cavern to the other . |
| 11 | ‘ Right here in Clonmacnoise , ’ the blonde ticket girl replied , and sent for a tall young man who worked in the grounds to show me her grave . |
| 12 | Certainly those who worked in the Cages he did not wish to like at all , but among the people who came by the Cages were some who came regularly , day after day , and they seemed all right to him . |
| 13 | In addition to the civil suit , Quebec provincial police and Montreal city police are investigating scores of possible criminal cases against individuals who worked in the hospitals and orphanages . |
| 14 | Sam and Paul Bradley , who worked behind the scenes , attended a special screening of the film for critics in Oxford . |