Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] to work [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But this is the bit that took me longest to work out . |
| 2 | While many students subsequently enter the teaching profession or work as professional musicians , they find that the study of music as a discipline trains them intellectually to work successfully in other professions , for example , business , personnel management , arts administration , the civil service , computing , the careers service , librarianship and journalism . |
| 3 | Perhaps , but it had n't taken her long to work out what the boy really was . |
| 4 | It did not take her long to work out that the meal was going to cost her considerably more than she 'd saved by spending a rather miserable night in rue Roland . |
| 5 | She said well , tell Grant , she said he can have a reprieve , she said it 's May the eighth and , and she says , she probably heard me say it was Friday and that 's when I thought it was this Friday , so I had to phone erm the receptionist at daddy 's works , so she was going to pass on the message to daddy just to tell him just to work late as usual , Grant , rather than come in at teatime and then go back to work again . |
| 6 | 1 Try reading it aloud to work out what the words mean . |