Example sentences of "he work in [art] " in BNC.

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1 They 've had to come out of retirement , she to help in a hairdressers , he to work in a shop .
2 Does he work in the business ? ’
3 From there , at 16 , he moved via Lebanon to Detroit , where he worked in a beauty shop and a car factory before helping the notorious Purple Gang smuggle alcohol from Canada in a hearse .
4 The police say Father Gabriel Maire was the victim of a robbery attempt , but the Archbishop of Vitoria , the south-eastern Brazilian city where he worked in a slum parish , said he was killed because of his pastoral work .
5 Mr Mohamed Sefi , 26 , of Stoke Newington , north London , heard a ‘ loud explosion ’ as he worked in a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in Houndsditch .
6 He went home with a single man whose mantelpiece was crowded with framed family photos — partners , holidays , weddings , babies , graduations , christenings ; the man ( who was gorgeous ) told Boy that he worked in a photo processing lab , and that none of the photos were of his own family or lovers , but were all stolen .
7 He worked in a wide range of big bands including those led by John Dankworth , the late Tubby Hayes , Canadian trumpeter Maynard Ferguson and Stan Tracey , with whom he continues to play , in both big band and Octet settings .
8 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 .
9 This had caused such abnormal interest that the next time he was asked he said that he worked in a garage .
10 I do n't rightly know but only that he worked in a shop , a big shop , and he always wore a nice suit .
11 Born in 1841 , Robert 's origins were bona fide proletarian ; he worked in a glass factory and as a house painter , taking evening classes in art which proved such a successful venture that he was able to set up a studio by 1869 and had developed a substantial reputation by the 1880s .
12 He worked in a fair frenzy for two hours , making demands of the paint he 'd never made before , plastering it on with palette knife and fingers , attempting to capture at least the shape and proportion of the thing 's head and neck .
13 He worked in a wide range of media : book illustrations ; designs for tapestries and fabrics ; theatre designs in collaboration with Benjamin Britten ; prints ; and stained glass .
14 At one he slept , and at three he worked in a shed at the bottom of the garden .
15 At fifteen he worked in a bank to learn accountancy , until his eyesight gave trouble .
16 On leaving school , he worked in a chemist 's shop and he later qualified as an apothecary ( LSA ) in 1886 .
17 Funny that , when Jack was a student in Sheffield he worked in a fruit store and THEY sold cabbages .
18 He worked in a number of Michelin-star kitchens in Amsterdam and also trained as a teacher before leaving his native land — knowledge he now puts to good use in local schools .
19 Well he worked in a Job Centre .
20 Mm , cos mum had Reverend come round , you see cos dad were n't , none of us were religious least of all dad , he could n't do none of it , so we said to , we did n't , we did n't know what vicar to choose cos none of us go to church so me mum said dad used to go to the church where me sister got married to the little Derby and Jones twice a week and Reverend is always there so mum said we 'll have him , dad got on well with him , he liked him , he knew dad , anyway he come round to see mum and I were n't there cos I had to go and sign on , I bloody wished I had been , anyway she said , she told him all about dad and she said I want you tell everybody how brave he was in the war and what a good father he were and a good provider and how he lived for his grandchildren and so on and so on , she said I do n't want no hymns I just want his own organ music all through the service and nothing else and just some , do a couple of prayers , she , so he said right the Lords Prayer will be fine that 'll be nice , well he never said nothing , he said I did n't know John but he said I 've been told he was a good man , he worked in a hospital , which he did , but I mean you 're only like an engineer we were n't really emphasising on that and that was all he said , he played a bit of the organ music before we went in , a bit as we come out and there was about eight bloody prayers and the songs and everything read out and made us sing a hymn ever so disappointed , hardly said anything , hardly play , played his music , no , I was well disappointed about that
21 He was a protégé of Sir William Chambers , who saw to it that he worked in every artistic department , including that of interior decoration , before he designed his first house at the age of eighteen .
22 For a period , he worked in the Manchester factory from 3am until 5pm , going to bed at 7pm so he could get up in time for the next day 's duty .
23 In the mornings he worked in the kitchen while his aunt baked or cooked or sewed ; here in the evenings he absorbed the sense of the impact of new industries on an older more settled way of life which , much later , found its way into the stories and sketches of his best Welsh work , Rest and Unrest and Light and Twilight .
24 From 1939 to 1941 he worked in the Ministry of Home Security ; he served in the Rifle Brigade until 1945 , rising to the rank of major .
25 During the Second World War he worked in the production of aero-engine components and served as engineer officer with the Clevedon Fire Brigade .
26 Betty Maitland very obligingly looked up Danny Ram on the payroll ( his name was actually Danyatai Ram ) and told Robyn that he worked in the foundry .
27 From 1967 to 1975 he worked in the family businesses and then decided to return and finish his PhD .
28 Jim Keeble , also an ex Boy Entrant , was posted to Watton in 1954 as a Senior Aircraftsman ( SAC ) Radar Mechanic and he worked in the Special Radio Servicing Flight ( SRSF ) .
29 Periodically he returned to his Australian roots , but for long periods he worked in the UK .
30 And for soon after that me father had to give up the mine be because of his health and he went to work at the depot er were the bus depot and he worked in the battery house where they made all the batteries up , charged the batteries for the buses , looked after the electrical side there was electrician , he were n't , me father were n't electrician but he was working with electrician but his main job was charging the batteries , putting them on in groups in the , in the er battery house and charging house , to keep all the batteries charged up for all the buses petrol buses tr and trolley buses .
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