Example sentences of "[verb] the dirty work " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before stepping unrepentantly down ( in 1989 ) , he entrenched himself as commander of the army for six further years , intending thus to protect the criminals who had done the dirty work while he was president . |
| 2 | He was a pragmatic loner from first to last , and by now had devised his own answer to the student chestnut ‘ Who will do the dirty work under socialism ? ’ : |
| 3 | Then she asked what had happened to Alec , because nobody had told her , and I just looked at a spot about a foot above her head and let Frank do the dirty work . |
| 4 | The point is , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , that he had spent his life seeking her out , yet left his feet to do the dirty work . |
| 5 | He likes to get other people — usually me , of course — to do the dirty work : make the awkward telephone call , tell the gardener who comes for four hours a week that he has ruined the asparagus bed , speak to Tom 's teacher about his appalling arithmetic . |
| 6 | BRINGING CUNNING PEOPLE IN TO DO THE DIRTY WORK |
| 7 | Got her to do the dirty work for for free ! |
| 8 | In a nutshell : young country bumpkin black cop is drafted in to defuse the tension on a London estate and discovers who 's really doing the dirty work . |
| 9 | ‘ On your knees , doing the dirty work , Sally-Anne ? ’ |
| 10 | BOOK REVIEW / The gentleman who did the dirty work — ‘ The Time of My Life : Denis Healey ’ — Michael Joseph , 17.95 pounds |
| 11 | Gravity did the dirty work . |
| 12 | The Faroese ( well , most of them ) maintain that those who oppose their traditional ways are people who have never had to hunt and kill to survive , who are happy to let other people ‘ do the dirty work ’ and to buy their meat ready-packaged from a supermarket ; that whale- and bird-hunting are community activities which help foster a ‘ community spirit ’ and that the birds and animals are all used for human food . |