Example sentences of "she [adv] work [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 At first , she only worked on the household duties , especially the cooking .
2 Cos in the afternoon she does catering from the pub and then the evening she just works behind the bar .
3 Catriona Stewart sells her patch boxes to some of the most exclusive shops in the country , yet she still works at the kitchen table ‘ with meals , toys and people all around ’ .
4 He 'd thought of her constantly , hoping she still worked for the Bradford family , and the invitation to Christmas dinner with them had caused him more elation than Maud , his wife , though he had n't dared show it .
5 Despite the obvious influence of Impressionism in the appearance of Walker 's pictures she also worked under the umbrella of ‘ decorative symbolism ’ — belonging more specifically to a tradition dominated by Puvis de Chavannes , which was authoritatively identified in relation to Augustus John by David Fraser Jenkins in his essay ‘ Slade School Symbolism ’ for the Barbican exhibition catalogue , the Last Romantics ( 1989 ) .
6 One of Wigan 's local councillors , whose mother was active in the Labour Party women 's section , remembers that she also worked on the pit top .
7 She now works in the university admissions office .
8 Mary de Wint ranked with Mrs Fields in seniority , though , as she never worked in the Hall , when Mrs Fields was off Staff Nurse Robins , the next in line , took her place .
9 Like Rosa Lewis of the Cavendish Hotel , she too worked on the principle that the wealthiest person present should foot the bill ; payment was extracted by the command , ‘ Open your bead bag , Lottie . ’
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