Example sentences of "[pron] worked the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Against his steady progress I worked the cameras frantically , images and sequences flooding my mind , until suddenly he was up , axes raised against the white of the scurrying clouds . |
| 2 | I worked the committee hard and fast , and overtime too , cutting down on the lunch break and carrying on late in the afternoon . |
| 3 | It did look good from the outside , even at this time of the year , an eighteenth-century fenland cottage , half-timbered and thatch-roofed , originally built as a home for the man who worked the sluice gates . |
| 4 | There was the high-class brothel , managed by Michael Lee , which operated out of the house across the park from Katherine 's own home , and then there were the dozen or so girls — the pick of the brothel girls — who worked the society parties . |
| 5 | By the 1930s , Wyman had been replaced by Charles Dee , who worked the mill throughout the decade . |
| 6 | Kitty knew them as well as any animal , as intimately as the dogs who worked the sheep and hunted the foxes and badgers and otters . |
| 7 | Every man owed allegiance to a Lord — the tenants who worked the field would hold his land from the owner , who would be either a Baron ; a Bishop , or the Abbott of a monastery , to whom the tenant had to render service . |
| 8 | Amused relief showed briefly on the faces of the two zonked chinks who worked the counter . |
| 9 | The girl who worked the front of house had already gone home and Rose had to take the money out of the safe and open up the box office to give the patrons their money back . |
| 10 | All the birds who worked the submission trade did . |
| 11 | The " broad acres " of a landed estate were in fact composed of a number of farms , each yielding a rent paid by the tenant farmer who worked the farm . |
| 12 | There were forty rooms in the warehouse , twenty on either side of the corridor and Fritz let the rooms to the street girls who worked the docks . |
| 13 | As she worked the crochet table-mats her mother had ordered , the intricate sequence of stitches could blot out for a moment or two the scenes that daily since that Easter feast she had staged between herself and Tommaso Talvi . |
| 14 | She worked the ragstore , she had worked there all her days , since she had left school — and a whisker away from a special one — what wits she had ; and wit let her steal the jacket , Mr McGregor 's broken arm . |
| 15 | There was no point in her dropping out and wrecking the film and , in any case , for as long as she worked the film company would pick up Maisie 's crippling Canadian hospital bills . |
| 16 | For ten years she worked the streets — you know , giving head and hand at a dollar a dick . |
| 17 | Perhaps that was why she worked the hours she did in the most gruelling part of the hospital , picking up the pieces — literally , sometimes — and putting them back together if possible , consoling distraught relatives if not . |
| 18 | She worked the slide of the Beretta , then took fifteen rounds from the box of 9mm ammunition . |
| 19 | we had to pull forward it 's not due so we 've got er so we 've given them three days to You see when we worked out the numbers for the we were given all the , the allowances , the rates et cetera , et cetera , we worked the forecast through and seen huge amounts of time given for which the assumption is that it 's all done by hand , the job these cranes so the resources how much money had been spent . |
| 20 | They complain about the expense , but it is still better than the alternative : ‘ Before , we worked the fields with pure lung power ’ . |
| 21 | If everything worked the deer would kill themselves , impaling their bodies on the wall of bamboo stakes . |
| 22 | They worked the mill for five years , after which Edward Palling , who also ran Brookhouse mill , took over . |
| 23 | Despite his lone pursuits of happiness , the greater impression is that they worked the Hollywood field together , for Burton 's material rewards , seeing it as a treasure trove best plundered before it disappeared . |
| 24 | Above all , they worked the tides , using those heaven-sent moving roads of water to help them on their way . |
| 25 | They worked the bank where his goats grazed and they would always stop and have a chat . |
| 26 | As they worked the sound of water slapping against the canal walls was a ceaseless accompaniment to their labours . |
| 27 | He worked the pump action frantically to eject the spent cartridge and reload . |
| 28 | Grimly he worked the pump action to eject the load , closing his mind to the thought of the wall and ceiling smeared with his brain matter , when he put the muzzle in his mouth and pulled the trigger . |
| 29 | He worked the rudder pedals to show them . |
| 30 | He worked the blade into the slot and waggled it about . |