Example sentences of "had work out " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had to work out a short monologue in the voice of a character , and then afterwards we sat around and were asked who would volunteer to stand up and read their piece . |
| 2 | It played on his mind for a time and eventually he had to work out a kind of therapy to get her out of his brain . |
| 3 | The phrasing got so slow and emphatic that you knew that she wanted you to listen to and weigh up every single word ; but you could n't tell if each word was freighted with anger , or bitterness , or joy ; it just came out with great , quiet force , and you had to work out its tone for yourself . |
| 4 | Many of the ‘ tutored ’ activities had involved ‘ tasks ’ that the children had to work out how to do . |
| 5 | ‘ The very percussive stuff was something I had to work out . |
| 6 | Ted Ray , one of the judges , reminded me that I now had to work out an act for ‘ The All Winners Show ’ , which happened every seventh week , a contest between the six previous show winners . |
| 7 | The young teller had to work out my change by writing the equation on a piece of paper . |
| 8 | Men and women , therefore , had to work out their salvation in a particular religious perspective and the original faith had to be adapted to meet the inclinations and spiritual gifts of all its members . |
| 9 | The tendency to split up was strengthened by another result of the absence of involvement of the government in London : the colonists had to work out how to handle their local problems of administration and , while there was virtually no idea of challenging the power of the monarch in England , policies had to be decided much faster than the royal government could ever manage . |
| 10 | Philadelphia stood on the edge of land that had never been occupied by Europeans , and so the Pennsylvanians had to work out their relations with the Indians . |
| 11 | Now they had to work out the 24th number . |
| 12 | ‘ The next point I had to work out logically was how the operator would get inside . |
| 13 | ‘ Similarly , I did n't want any obvious arms on it so I had to work out a system of manipulators — things that did things , like a grip mechanism or a gun . |
| 14 | You had to work out this thing he was thinking of , and he gave two dues . |
| 15 | Then they had to work out what to do . |
| 16 | Whatever was behind the insidious threats she had received was something she had to work out for herself . |
| 17 | He said he still had to work out an acceptable solution to the dispute created by Israel 's deportation of 415 Palestinians from the occupied territories to an icy no man 's land in south Lebanon , where 396 of them remain . |
| 18 | I had worked out three ways of making the box ; the volumes different for each . |
| 19 | Mr Patten spent much of yesterday emphasising that he wanted to respect local decisions , and that once the regions and his department had worked out overall allocations , it was for local electorates to decide where they put the bricks and mortar . |
| 20 | General Thurman still had to receive a final green light from the president once he had worked out a plan . |
| 21 | Badfinger had worked out of the studios but the main guy topped himself in 1975 ( to be followed by another in 1983 ) and Bill was left with a studio and no band . |
| 22 | He was particularly anxious to return to the States before Mark left the company , as he simply could n't face the prospect of having to spell out to the Englishman the compensation terms and pension proposals which New York had worked out . |
| 23 | I had worked out what I was going to say . |
| 24 | He had worked out a basic form for this and photocopied it , leaving blanks to type in the appropriate names . |
| 25 | Not only that , but he had worked out in the gym that morning , then managed a half-hour nap before heading out for an unusually late lunchtime start from the VIP terminal at Heathrow . |
| 26 | At the Penta the porters had worked out a neat scam with the airline crews who regularly booked into the hotel . |
| 27 | It had been presented to him by the City of Paris and on it were traced the lines of the new streets and boulevards which Napoleon III had worked out in conjunction with Baron Haussmann . |
| 28 | Some had worked out that their tiny ones were costing them over £200 a month . |
| 29 | Though I had worked out every detail for me and the wheelbarrow , I had not given much thought to the Land Rover . |
| 30 | They had worked out a rota to stand guard on their remaining property , and also to protect their terrified daughters . |