Example sentences of "[verb] worked a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has worked a great deal with the Royal Shakespeare Company playing the leading roles of Shylock in The Merchant of Venice , Achilles in Troilus and Cressida , Bolingbroke in Richard II and Iago in Othello . |
| 2 | They 'll continue their campaign to win back the security they 'd worked a whole lifetime for . |
| 3 | Danger — AAW always makes it clear what 's going on , but splitting a command into two by asking ‘ with what ? ’ might have worked a little bit better but then again , you ca n't have it all can you ? |
| 4 | I had worked a long time on the script with Dalton Trumbo and we worked very hard getting the right cast . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The main Conservative claim to national support , therefore , namely that they had worked an economic miracle , seemed increasingly shallow . |
| 8 | I 've worked in for 30 years and lots of us have worked for over 25 years and we do know that they are bringing in trainees in on higher salaries than ourselves , which obviously is quite upsetting when you 've worked a long time . |
| 9 | And since then you 've worked a great deal together ? |
| 10 | Traditionally , psychiatric hospitals have worked a two-shift system by day with few meal breaks and with a limited overlap in the middle , whereas acute hospitals tend to provide unpaid meal breaks and large overlap between the morning and afternoon shifts . |
| 11 | That this ‘ slippage ’ is so slight is due to the fact that the other Enterprise staff have worked a great deal of extra time and taken on extra responsibilities and I take this opportunity of thanking them for their hard work and support during this period . |