Example sentences of "[noun] who worked the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The girl who worked the front of house had already gone home and Rose had to take the money out of the safe and open up the box office to give the patrons their money back .
2 All the birds who worked the submission trade did .
3 Kitty knew them as well as any animal , as intimately as the dogs who worked the sheep and hunted the foxes and badgers and otters .
4 Every man owed allegiance to a Lord — the tenants who worked the field would hold his land from the owner , who would be either a Baron ; a Bishop , or the Abbott of a monastery , to whom the tenant had to render service .
5 It did look good from the outside , even at this time of the year , an eighteenth-century fenland cottage , half-timbered and thatch-roofed , originally built as a home for the man who worked the sluice gates .
6 Amused relief showed briefly on the faces of the two zonked chinks who worked the counter .
7 There were forty rooms in the warehouse , twenty on either side of the corridor and Fritz let the rooms to the street girls who worked the docks .
8 The " broad acres " of a landed estate were in fact composed of a number of farms , each yielding a rent paid by the tenant farmer who worked the farm .
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