Example sentences of "[pron] work the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | well you can get so far , but then I work the brackets out and you do n't always have to work the brackets out |
| 2 | If I work the way I want to , what will the teacher think who takes them next year ? |
| 3 | 3/Slowly darkening the area , continuing to smudge and highlight with the eraser again and again , I work the piece until it looks right . |
| 4 | Slowly darkening the area , continuing to smudge and highlight with the eraser again and again , I work the piece until it looks right . |
| 5 | ‘ I work the lifts , ’ he went on , more expansively . |
| 6 | I mean you could think of a brilliant illustration , and then you work the message out from it , which is the wrong way round . |
| 7 | You 're gon na have some tremendously large numbers if you work the formula are n't you ? |
| 8 | The phrase ‘ black humour ’ had an altogether different ring once you 'd caught the racist patter of the stand-up comedians who work the clubs and pubs round Brick Lane or the Mile End Road . |
| 9 | They are the feudal nobility who own the land , and the landless serfs who work the land . |
| 10 | I say you know , we do talk to each other as police officers and talking to the lads who work the flats , from when they were busy to you know , now it 's on the you know , I think what , there 's about three hundred people is there ? |
| 11 | ‘ And gardeners who work the allotments … ’ |
| 12 | Without her work the power of the Habsburgs could hardly have survived in the predatory State system of eighteenth-century Europe . |