Example sentences of "she worked [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had once been Chris Patten 's task to help Mrs Thatcher as she worked through the night . |
| 2 | On leaving school , she worked at the Connaught Theatre , Working , followed by drama school . |
| 3 | Unconcerned , Sabina went on , as she worked at the stove , |
| 4 | From 1976 to 1981 she worked at the Henley Centre for Forecasting , where she was responsible for UK economics forecasts , and manager of special studies . |
| 5 | After graduating from the Harbin Military Technology Institute , she worked at the People 's Liberation Army General Staff headquarters . |
| 6 | met his wife when she worked at the maltings during the war and they were married in 1948 . |
| 7 | During World War I she worked at the Admiralty on various projects of national importance , including the large-scale production of acetone from starch by fermentation . |
| 8 | But as she worked on the film , Woody 's 12-year love affair with Mia Farrow broke up — and he changed Lysette 's character from an amusing bimbo into a sometimes vicious bitch . |
| 9 | She worked on the assembly line of a bottling plant , and hated it . |
| 10 | As an assistant audit manager , she worked on the accounting and reporting side during the USM placing in December 1986 , and was involved in setting up the consolidation of C&R 's US interests . |
| 11 | The galloping granny , from Bristol , used to run the 800 yards and 4 x 400 relay for the Imperial Tobacco company where she worked on the shop floor . |
| 12 | She worked with the M.A.A.F. on grey squirrel control , now enjoys retirement and describes family life and the upbringing of two sons thus : ‘ It 's been a battlefield ! |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm pleased with it , ’ Maria responded warily , reminding herself that she worked for the man . |
| 14 | As Beatrice and Orage became lovers , she worked for the paper , assuming increasing importance editorially and soon writing about a third of the contents herself as reviewer , poet , satirist and literary adviser . |
| 15 | ‘ How is Christine , these days ? ’ she said as she worked along the racks , pulling out the second set of changes for the show that was just about to start . |
| 16 | In fact , she was very old ; she was twenty-four years old and she worked in the mill and earned eight shillings a week . |
| 17 | She was much better , hardly coughing at all , and she sang while she worked in the kitchen . |
| 18 | She worked in the Paris office of the New York Herald Tribune for a while and later she went to Switzerland to work for the International Labour Office of the United Nations . |
| 19 | It was her dimples that first attracted Vic to Marjorie twenty-five years ago , when she worked in the typing pool at Vanguard . |
| 20 | She remembered when she was the only child at home , playing with her dolls on the rag rug before the fire and listening to the purring of the kettle on the hob , her mother singing as she worked in the back kitchen , waiting for the others to come home . |
| 21 | Like there was this girl , she worked in the paper shop down the road , and there was this black kid who kept pestering her all the time , so we had to go down and sort him out . |
| 22 | She worked in the City and in teaching hospitals , in shipping firms and art galleries . |
| 23 | She was introduced to Medau by Jean Parmiter , with whom she worked in the City . |
| 24 | And male colleagues made rude ‘ noises ’ over the airwaves when she worked in the radio room , she claimed . |
| 25 | She was a cleaner , more than once , and she worked in the hydroponics , and in kitchens . |
| 26 | In nice weather , she worked in the garden . |
| 27 | Throughout the long evenings she worked in the garden and planned what bulbs she would plant for spring flowers . |
| 28 | She worked in the garden every day , from then on , unless the rain was torrential . |