Example sentences of "[Wh pn] worked at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We ’ turned out to be a husband who worked at the London HQ of an oil company and two children , a boy of twelve and a girl of fifteen , both at boarding school . |
| 2 | When he did , the prim man who worked at the counter often inspected them and said , ‘ I doubt if this will come out , sir , but we 'll do our best . ’ |
| 3 | Four porters who worked at the Heathrow Penta Hotel refused to meet or greet guests , deliver keys to rooms or move luggage if a guest transferred to a new room . |
| 4 | In late 1959 Goleniewski had given MI5 enough information to identify Harry Houghton , who worked at the Admiralty 's underwater research laboratory at Portland , which eventually led to the exposure of the Portland spy ring . |
| 5 | I remember a man with a family of several young children who worked at the plant saying at one of the first local public meetings I addressed that it would certainly change his mind about nuclear power if the link with leukaemia was substantiated . |
| 6 | Yet another story tells of a young ostler who worked at the inn . |
| 7 | One notes S. A. Waksman ( 1888–1973 ) , who worked at the Agricultural Experimental Station of the State University of New Jersey . |
| 8 | A university of such importance was bound to attract the intellectuals of the nation , and Peck lists a whole host of literati who worked at the university , including the notable authors William Wheteley , William Ludlington and Walter de Heston . |
| 9 | The witnesses were people who worked at the registry office . |
| 10 | Dependents of one man who worked at the controversial Sellafield plant in Cumbria and died of lung cancer in 1989 received a ‘ quarter payment ’ of £15,243 . |
| 11 | David Lynch , who worked at the Passport Office , admitted his part in a racket to slip the documents on to the black market where they were worth £40,000 each . |
| 12 | Ziba 's 35-year-old brother , Meho , who worked at the dairy and fought with the Sarajevo defence force , had been killed during the night in a skirmish a few blocks away . |
| 13 | Her dog sniffed for a moment at the ankle of the young man who worked at the engine of his car . |
| 14 | Modern sociology is usually thought to have its roots in the work of classical sociologists who worked at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century . |
| 15 | WABI was written by people who worked at the BIOS house Phoenix Technologies and later at Integrated Technologies Inc . |
| 16 | Eight years later , punk rockers with honours degrees were going to concerts by The Jesus and Mary Chain — married to girls who worked at the Institute of Contemporary Art , or living with men who created ( or deconstructed ) advertising campaigns . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A Victorian gentleman called A.J. Munby toured the Wigan coalfield talking to the pit brow " lasses " who worked at the pit top sorting coal from muck during an intense instance in the nineteenth-century struggle to regulate the sex of waged workers and of men and women . |
| 19 | But now she raised her eyes and did look , differently , at Alice , the housemate of a Council official who worked at the main office for this area . |
| 20 | Laura liked the idea , partly because it was a way of avoiding import duty , but also because the eastern Kentucky women who worked at the factory were similar to the Welsh women she had first hired in the Sixties ; rural , with strong ties to family and community and skilful seamstresses by upbringing . |
| 21 | Of 70 male young persons and children who worked at the mine , and whose ages ranged from 7 to 17 , only 8 or 11.5 per cent were able to write — only one of the eight being below 13 years old . |
| 22 | None of the people who worked at the hotel could explain how the shoe had got back into the room . |
| 23 | More were needed for this task than were ever recruited to work underground , and many Cornish youths who worked at the tin " stamps " as " buddle boys " never became adult miners . |
| 24 | It is a sentiment shared by many — and especially those who worked at the once-thriving Basingstoke office , now destined for the annals of feed industry history . |
| 25 | None of these figures takes account of the women and children who worked at the craft , but the broad trends are clear . |
| 26 | Laurie Smith , who worked at the forge from 1936 until its closure , has arranged this year 's reunion at The Cottage , alongside The Freemasons ' Hall , in Archer Street , Darlington . |