Example sentences of "worked [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will always be grateful to the doctors and nurses who worked during the festive season , as well as all year round . |
| 2 | At great length , and with considerable idealistic heart-searching , they worked through the various problems and anomalies of the paper in comparison with its rival newspapers . |
| 3 | He now worked through the National Society for the Rapid Realisation of Korean Independence ( NSRRKI ) and in May 1946 embarked on a provincial tour to strengthen his position further . |
| 4 | Michael went with her to meetings and joined her when she worked for the Liberal cause because it was the next best thing to Labour . |
| 5 | But why should someone murder him decades later because he betrayed his country and worked for the Soviet Union ? |
| 6 | It is symbolic that a Babylonian text records a payment of oil to Jehoiakin , the son of the king of Judah , and to seven Greek carpenters who worked for the Babylonian court ( Ancient Near Eastern Texts , 2 ed. , p. 308 ) . |
| 7 | The principal members were a private secretary , Oliver Everett , who worked for the diplomatic service and was recalled from Madrid to set up her office ; and Anne Beckwith-Smith , a specialist in eighteenth-century English painting , who worked at Sotheby 's and was brought in as full-time lady-in-waiting . |
| 8 | Frank , who worked for the Coventry-based business for 10 years before retiring on medical grounds , is now disabled and the money is paying for a £2,127 electric wheelchair . |
| 9 | The court heard how Cook , who worked for the Baptist Church in Corporation Road , Darlington , locked the girl in a room . |
| 10 | The second Earl of Clarendon was involved in the Preston Plot of 1690 , as was Bishop Turner of Ely , whilst at various times Charles Leslie and George Hickes worked for the exiled Court . |
| 11 | Dursun , once a cleric , worked for the left-wing weekly Towards 2000 . |
| 12 | Counc tonight it was mentioned the actual the work of the Regional Health Authority and , again , I worked for the Regional Health Authority a long time ago . |
| 13 | When I worked for the Daily Telegraph , the editor , Bill Deedes , would say that he never missed the letters column of the Guardian . |
| 14 | Later I tell C that if I worked for the Daily Star , I 'd have my story already . |
| 15 | The Institute of Environmental Assessment ( IEA ) was set up by Dr Tim Coles , who worked for the National Rivers Authority , to act as an impartial and independent watchdog and to raise the standard of environmental impact assessments and statements , which — under European law — must be submitted to planning authorities with planning applications . |
| 16 | The journalists who worked for the popular newspapers were only concerned to please their readers , and the truth was irrelevant . |
| 17 | I use to dread going in to work — in the two years I worked for the Inland Revenue I do not think I worked a full month — and in the end I left . |
| 18 | Before going into the cosmetic business she was a teacher , and worked for the United Nations in Geneva . |
| 19 | Doctor Howe worked for the Open University and was based at their centre at Boars Hill on the outskirts of Oxford . |
| 20 | Philip Leapor told Freemantle that he worked for the Blencowe family for five years following his daughter 's birth . |
| 21 | Outside the college as well as within it , he worked for the Conservative party , attending meetings and electioneering . |
| 22 | She worked for the Serbian Relief Fund in Salonika , took charge of a temporary Serbian refugee colony in Bastia , Corsica , and was decorated by the Serbian government . |
| 23 | In the early 1980s , because of her past connection with the military establishment , intellectuals tended to shun her and rumours had it that she worked for the Chinese KGB , the Ministry of State Security . |
| 24 | A graduate in urban and regional planning , he originally worked for the Urban Wildlife Trust in Birmingham and also spent a period as an environmental planning consultant . |
| 25 | Mitchell trained as a journalist on The Scotsman and worked for the Scottish Tourist Board , Apex Publishing in Oman and British Gas Scotland before setting up Elliot Mitchell Communications , which later merged with Commpress . |
| 26 | There seems to be general agreement that the scheme is well run , well managed and extremely beneficial to those who have , in many cases , worked for the Scottish Transport Group for many years . |
| 27 | She worked for the British Council in the monolithic Spring Gardens building between the Mall and Trafalgar Square . |
| 28 | Alan Maley , the series editor , worked for The British Council from 1962–1988 , serving as an English Language Officer in Yugoslavia , Ghana , Italy , France , and China , and as Regional Representative for The British Council in South India ( Madras ) . |
| 29 | He worked for the British Ministry of Information in New York during 1915 , returning to England in 1916 to enlist with the Irish Guards , but was wounded and invalided out in 1917 . |
| 30 | While the magnificence of the result could justify the fact that The Red Shoes cost twice as much as The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp , there were many cases where the extravagance worked against the final result , and Michael Powell has recalled that he became ‘ impatient at the complacency of my associates about the mounting costs of our films . ’ |