Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] work the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Against his steady progress I worked the cameras frantically , images and sequences flooding my mind , until suddenly he was up , axes raised against the white of the scurrying clouds . |
| 2 | I say you know , we do talk to each other as police officers and talking to the lads who work the flats , from when they were busy to you know , now it 's on the you know , I think what , there 's about three hundred people is there ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | All the birds who worked the submission trade did . |
| 5 | You find an awful lot of things talking to Fred who works the filter press , y'know . |
| 6 | For ten years she worked the streets — you know , giving head and hand at a dollar a dick . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They are the feudal nobility who own the land , and the landless serfs who work the land . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The phrase ‘ black humour ’ had an altogether different ring once you 'd caught the racist patter of the stand-up comedians who work the clubs and pubs round Brick Lane or the Mile End Road . |
| 12 | Amused relief showed briefly on the faces of the two zonked chinks who worked the counter . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ And gardeners who work the allotments … ’ |