Example sentences of "[noun sg] work [prep] the farm " in BNC.

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1 Why is Mrs O'Rea able to say that they do not need to hire labour to work on the farm ?
2 Seb still contrived to spend a couple of hours with Carrie every Sunday evening to work on the farm 's ledgers , carefully noting down each item of expenditure and the profit made .
3 Well er my father worked at the farm Odness .
4 A total of 34 farms had no assistance from wives whilst on two farms there was a daughter working on the farm in addition to the wife , though the latter now did only a limited amount of farm work .
5 When Carrie had some feeling back in her cold limbs she began bustling around to cook them a meal while Seb sat using part of the kitchen table to work on the farm accounts in the pool of yellow light cast by the lamp .
6 The report shows that these small farmers and their spouses spend almost as much time working on the farms as they do at their other jobs , yet farm profits are almost non-existent .
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