Example sentences of "she work [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does n't she work in a bank or something ? ’ |
| 2 | To do that she worked through a minefield for two weeks , finally beating the tiny Spanish girl Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario 6–3 6–4 . |
| 3 | Bari 's three marriages were to agent Walter Kane , Producer Sid Luft ( who later married Judy Garland ) and Dr Nathan Rickles , for whom she worked as a nurse for a while in 1956 . |
| 4 | All but four relate to children and babies who were patients on Ward 4 , the children 's ward , where she worked as a nurse . |
| 5 | After one year 's training there , where she was a model pupil , she worked as a sister at the Great Northern Hospital . |
| 6 | Until last week , she worked as a cleaner at the local community centre , but colleagues say she 'd given up the job to spend more time with her sick mother . |
| 7 | She worked as a councillor for more than ten years and has campaigned on issues such as the environment , recycling , and nuclear dumping . |
| 8 | She worked as a secretary , and loathed it — but she could n't decide what she really wanted to do . |
| 9 | Before that , she worked as a secretary , but in 1972 she was really tired of a secretary 's life . |
| 10 | Which was that Ellen had sworn herself to celibacy while she worked as a cook , a decision that was to me as eccentric as it was both incomprehensible and frustrating . |
| 11 | She died while with two friends at the French resort of Meribel , where she worked as a chalet maid . |
| 12 | She worked as a tailoress with the Tailoring Guild for many years and had made lots of good friends amongst her work-mates . |
| 13 | She worked as a midwife in the small township of Eastwood in New South Wales where she was known as ‘ Granny Smith ’ because she had delivered so many babies . |
| 14 | Her curry love affair stretches back to the mid-Seventies when she worked as a volunteer in a children and old people 's home . |
| 15 | She worked as a volunteer at a maternity home . |
| 16 | As far as her friends were concerned she worked as a translator at the United Nations . |
| 17 | During the war she worked as a translator , and at the time of the action of the novel she has taken up this trade again recently . |
| 18 | For more than 20 years she worked as a physio-therapist in the elderly care sector . |
| 19 | She worked as a machinist until she married my father in 1946 and chose never to have a job again . |
| 20 | Stevie might have tended to exaggerate , but although she had rich parents , she worked as a waitress in Los Angeles to support Lindsey , and they roughed it around a bit . |
| 21 | Until recently her job was there , too — for three years she worked as a shop assistant in the hosiery department of the massive Neiman Marcus store — but then the success of Inner City allowed her to leave . |
| 22 | Previously , she worked as a receptionist in Friars Hall , Paisley , and as a Secretary with C.W.S. Engineering Works in Shieldhall . |
| 23 | And Hilda was her maiden name , last seen forty nine years ago , she lived on Estate , , Nottingham and she worked as a labeller in the bottle department of Brewery . |
| 24 | During World War I she was amongst the pacifist seceders from the NUWSS and she worked as a representative of the No-Conscription Fellowship for conscientious objectors at their trials by tribunal and for the Women 's Peace Crusade . |
| 25 | She worked as a community worker in an immigrant village , and took her MA ( in social work ) and her doctorate ( in sociology ) in Bar-Ilan . |
| 26 | She worked as a journalist on McClure 's magazine , and gave it up to write . |
| 27 | Around the turn of the century Nina Boyle spent several years in South Africa , where she worked as a journalist and founded the Women 's Enfranchisement League of Johannesburg . |
| 28 | She worked at a modelling agency . |
| 29 | She said she slept in it because she worked on a computer that was only available to her at night and there was no point in going home after 2am . |
| 30 | She worked with a tenderness that only a caring woman is capable of . |