Example sentences of "had work [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to work a bit to keep up with him — the path is not as straight as the road ; also I had to be careful not to make a noise . |
| 2 | From Winnipeg — where he had to work a bootlegging ruse to get a drink — he hitched to New York to stay with some friends of Philip : they were in Vermont and so he busked a few days in Manhattan , perhaps even sang for his supper in Greenwich Village . |
| 3 | At this time the villagers had to work a number of days for the Bishop and among their duties , they had to send one man from each household to pick the grapes from his vines . |
| 4 | She never had to work a day in her life . ’ |
| 5 | Duff had to work a lot harder for his five-set victory over the 1985 world champion , Terry Sullivan . |
| 6 | would see that you had to work a bit |
| 7 | He also had to work the two arm levers and extend the gun barrel on cue . |
| 8 | Most PC software did n't have a Macintosh counterpart and even if it did users had to work the magic of the asynchronous communications link to get data back and forth . |
| 9 | On my first week as a passed out Goods Guard in August 1962 , I had to work an Annesley Sidings , G.C. , to Sheffield Rotherham , freight train . |
| 10 | ‘ About the previous Christmas … we brought our myne unto the Wall , and about Candlemas we had wrought the wall halfe through . ’ |
| 11 | Betty was so relieved to see Lydia in spirits again that she did n't care at all that it was Beuno who had wrought the transformation . |
| 12 | Annesley Brittanias did not normally venture away from the Nottingham to London semi-fasts but 70048 had worked a freight to Staveley . |
| 13 | Although Beveridge argued that once older people had worked a full course and fulfilled ‘ the obligation of service ’ they were to receive ‘ an adequate income to maintain them ’ , this has never been the case in practice . |
| 14 | I had worked a long time on the script with Dalton Trumbo and we worked very hard getting the right cast . |
| 15 | The taller man had worked a knife-blade into the drawer . |
| 16 | She 'd tacked a few scraps of old cotton into a baby-gown too and sent it round next door for the new Rattrie baby , born very inconveniently , as it turned out , the day after the funeral , her fit of generosity entirely misplaced , since the child had only lived a few hours and the gown — upon which Odette had worked a few hasty stitches of embroidery — had ended up in the pawnshop — Cara had seen it herself in the window — to help pay , she supposed , for yet another infantile disposal . |
| 17 | The three men who had worked the lift continued to be employed at Foxton until the outbreak of the war in 1914 . |
| 18 | Meredith Jones had worked the educational network ; Philip had engineered the ATC cadet to Oxford on another network ; Emlyn Williams was the centre of a growing Welsh network , the ‘ Tafia ’ ; Binkie Beaumont ( who had started work in a theatre in Cardiff — the Welsh connection may have helped Burton once again ) was the unlikely Godfather of the London network : Burton himself was to become a Godfather and enjoy it enormously . |
| 19 | We all knew Froggy , a caddie who had worked the circuit since the late fifties and had carried for many winners , including a couple of Open Champions — American , of course — in the mid-seventies . |
| 20 | They are certainly not small targets to be found with a metal detector and I was amazed that they were there , for they proved that no detector user had worked the area since my last visit . |
| 21 | He had worked the same hours , on the same farm for nine years but he was paid as a casual labourer , and so had no right to a pension , to notice pay — not even to the right of appeal . |
| 22 | Again on this very course a while back it was only three people in the group in the week that I was watching and the guy who was running the session had , had worked the equation wrongly on the rating or whatever and the other two , never seen him before in their lives were saying that 's wrong and he started getting really annoyed . |
| 23 | The main Conservative claim to national support , therefore , namely that they had worked an economic miracle , seemed increasingly shallow . |
| 24 | It was Friday at Mission Dolores , when the probation officers came to met the boys on parole and Father Boyle paid the many youngsters whom he had working the church , the school and charity programmes in the parish . |