Example sentences of "[noun sg] worked [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1969 Victor had suggested that Neville wrote a book ; it was to be Playpower , and the foursome went to stay in a Devon country house where the Australian worked on the manuscript . |
| 2 | by the station , her husband worked on the railway there . |
| 3 | My er my sister worked in the grenade shop and erm after she ca she 'd been working at , on the manor , do you know the manor at Willenhall and then er she decided to go on with the war work and she was courting the man named , John and his father was the timekeeper , later H & T Hornes , but erm it fizzled out and anyway the romance did but erm |
| 4 | Well er my father worked at the farm Odness . |
| 5 | My father worked on the railway and in my conscious life he was a supervisor , he was called an inspector , Inspector . |
| 6 | Stoke area was chosen I suppose because my father worked on the railway and you either worked on the railway or if you lived over Stoke , it was well known for that . |
| 7 | I think it 's sometimes falsely represented as being academic or being unreal or as not relating to the masses of women 's lives , and it 's out of my own experience I just want to be clear about this , it 's out of my own experience as an incest survivor , as a pornography survivor , my father worked in the porn industry , that I came to revolutionary feminism . |
| 8 | He did not quite begin in rags ; he was the great-grandson of an Irish immigrant to New York , where his father worked in the cleaning department of the borough of Queens . |
| 9 | During the days , while the Captain worked on the ship , Frankenstein wrote down his story , and each evening he read what he had written to the Captain . |
| 10 | She sent them alone with sandwiches and drinks to where her brother worked in the fields and he too grew glad of their quiet company in the empty fields . |