Example sentences of "[vb past] work at [art] " in BNC.

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1 None of the fathers ' job descriptions given on the birth certificate referred to work at a nuclear establishment .
2 On Monday morning , she reported to work at the Swift building on Des Voeux Road .
3 He began by doing seasonal work which involved working at the maltings during the winter and working in a brickyard during the summer .
4 I think at first it seemed to work at a disadvantage .
5 It seemed to work at the time .
6 The dufflecoat would have been the one he had worn when he first came to work at the Establishment .
7 Later he came to work at the house which was his first entry into Local Government .
8 But it would have been costly because he 'd worked at the paper for so long .
9 Sandra , but she preferred Sandy , told us that she 'd worked at the Exhilarator for five months but was just biding her time before she could move away from her mother and get her own place in London .
10 When he married he rented a rambling red-brick Georgian house two miles away and bicycled to work at the forge most days .
11 But the H S E says the cluster of leukaemia cases is confined mainly to the nearby village of Seascale and to children whose fathers began working at the plant before nineteen sixty five .
12 Molly and George needed to work at the adjustment .
13 I know it sounds crackers but we preferred it , " said one of the pit brow lasses who started working at the pit when she was fourteen and finished when the women 's work was abolished after nationalisation .
14 The only problem was , they were supposed to be on piece work , and it meant working at the same pace .
15 Eleanor Coade had the royal appointment to George III , for whom she made the Gothic screen at St George 's chapel , Windsor , and to the prince of Wales , for whom , successively as prince regent and George IV , she did work at the first Royal Pavilion , Brighton , and Carlton House .
16 But I knew that it would be difficult to persuade Jimbo that he had to work at the exercises : yet if the treatment were to succeed , it had to be him — Jimbo himself — who , in the end , would reopen the pathway of nerves between brain and muscle .
17 in psychology and chucked in electrical engineering and started a psychology course and he had to work at the same time as he studied for some of that time
18 Yeah , folk here just never been out since New Year , then she had to work at the hospital Tuesday , well Bradley said if you do n't feel fit enough phone up and we 'll send a nurse to you I said you 're bloody mental , you ask for everything you get , I said instead of phoning the nurse in , ah but I think Alison told me they both need a good , good bloody feed they do
19 Apparently my mother had worked at a big house somewhere and fallen in love , but it had all gone wrong .
20 Wendy had worked at a local hospital as a clerk in medical records before giving up work to look after her children .
21 No mother of a case had worked at a nuclear establishment before her child 's conception , and no mother had a record of being monitored for exposure to ionising radiation at any time before diagnosis ( table V ) .
22 Marie said nothing but she had worked at an old people 's home as part of her Community Care Course .
23 Filmmakers were rarely imported from outside ( Thorold Dickinson , who was allowed in to make Secret People in 1952 , could be regarded as an ‘ old boy ’ since he had worked at the studio during Basil Dean 's time ) and , with five directors responsible for two-thirds of the films made at the studio between 1942 and 1955 , there was little competition inside the studio , and no exposure to fresh ideas from outside .
24 For thousands of years the ocean had worked at the chalk cliffs and eventually brought down these trees , and because the place was so isolated and difficult to reach , the branches had escaped use as firewood .
25 During the summer breaks from university , he had worked at the sausage factory where his father was manager .
26 Mr. Tom Andrews , whom I remember as a very old man , had worked at The White Hart Hotel and even in his old age was in demand if a ham had to be sliced for a wedding or similar function .
27 Courtney had worked at the Whipps Cross and Charing Cross hospitals in England , at Dublin 's University College hospital , in Saudi Arabia and at the Royal Free hospital and medical school , where he was researching a project on caesarian sections .
28 He had worked at the idea with all the intensity of youth , and now it was about to bear fruit .
29 Maureen , 44 — who had worked at the Gateshead mill for ten years — declared : ‘ I could n't have lived with myself if I had put my name to it .
30 Mr Walker sought advice from a colleague who , some years earlier , had worked at the Chester Beatty in preparation from her doctorate .
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