Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] ['s] work [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carrie had seen the accountant 's bill for the previous year 's work and she knew why he never complained . |
| 2 | ‘ 'Twill be a good day 's work if we can bring in this prize , lads . |
| 3 | It was very hard work but you felt , well I 've done a good day 's work when you 'd finished . |
| 4 | Well , what we did was we what we did was we erm found the alarm system to try and calculate some reasonable output rates erm but what we found was the output rates seemed incredibly low using based on the completion that they have got So what we was we erm took the nine week 's work that they 'd done and erm plus they 'd obviously based our output rates on that erm just for a little example , using the allowances we have n't got whereas actually we 'd been calculating it on what they had n't worked so , that was basically what we So moving on to the actual short-term programme |
| 5 | Faced with the challenge of being original in this way , some student writers believe that they should copy or adapt other people 's work because it is bound to be of better quality than their own . |
| 6 | This is what we should be working towards when work is being shared : creating a desire to see other people 's work because it matters within the drama ; because everybody 's work affects everybody else 's in some way . |
| 7 | Cos people often used to say to me because I 'd , I 'd played everything you could play except golf , and , and er , and I , I , people used to say you did two men 's work and you I , I met a chap one day , this was an instance , I 'm not trying to blow me trumpet do n't think that at all . |
| 8 | ‘ Utter so much as a word about last night 's work and you will be clapped in irons , ’ declared Tyrell . |