Example sentences of "work the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We know that lead was mined by the Brigantes because after the battle of Stanwick and the defeat of Venutius in AD 74 by the Ninth Spanish Legion under Petilius Cerialis , many of the defeated warriors were taken as slaves to work the lead-mines at Hurst in Swaledale and Greenhow Hill in Wharfedale , where lead pigs bearing Roman markings , probably stolen by native workers , have been unearthed from their hiding places . |
| 2 | Sylvia agreed to work the streets for him on the understanding he would find out what she wanted to know . |
| 3 | I advertised for male compositors [ to work the machines ] and got no reply . |
| 4 | Now , possibly alerted by advisers from outside ( such as C. M. Bowerman , from the London Society of Compositors , chairman of the NPKTF , and member of parliament , who attended the negotiations during 1910 ) , the committee of the ETS on behalf of its members , came into line with compositors everywhere else in claiming the right to work the machines . " |
| 5 | The other is dominated by workers with few skills , other than their willingness to work the hours required by their employers . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | The railways brought coal to fuel the tea factories , and above all transported labour to work the plantations . |
| 8 | While there was little resistance to the purchase or expropriation of their land for cash crops , Fijian peasants refused to work the plantations . |
| 9 | The pilot went to the front of the plane to work the controls , and the men started to refuel the plane . |
| 10 | Although such overtures to work the mines were directed at the Lord of the Manor , really at this time the landowner was not it , a proper legal position to let out the veins on his land where these Carried the Royal Minerals , gold and silver . |
| 11 | In the canal carrying business the number of sons who could be involved was limitless and women and children could help to work the boats . |
| 12 | Rather tentatively at first , volunteers came forward to work the word-processors ; another manned the phone continuously from that first day until the office finally moved out of its temporary accommodation in the middle of May . |
| 13 | Ask him to demonstrate something to another child ( e.g. how to work the fizzy-drinks machine ) ; direct her to help , or seek help , of another . |
| 14 | This is an especially good way to work if yours is a basic machine without a ribber and you have decided to work the ribs by hand . |
| 15 | Pete Smith uses techniques that date back to medieval times to work the rods of metal into everything from gates to furniture . |
| 16 | A LWB front axle may be used , but the brake master cylinder will need changing to work the brakes properly . |
| 17 | Even easier is to work the samples as a strip for the length of a sweater , sew the strips together , hang the top edge on to needles and complete with some rib for slash neckline . |
| 18 | Marx argues in many places , but most clearly in the Preface to the Critique of Political Economy , that the source of the destruction of the capitalist system would come from the fact that the social system which itself had been created in order to work the factories and markets of capitalism would become increasingly incompatible with the technological requirements of these factories and markets , and that ultimately this incompatibility would lead to revolution . |
| 19 | The farmers ' tenacity is extraordinary : they had been looted repeatedly of their tools and crops , but continue to work the fields every day , planting their meagre remaining seed reserve . |
| 20 | He was free to lay down what proportion of their produce was to be made over to him , and how many days in the week they were to work the fields he set aside for his own use . |
| 21 | Some writers have suggested that men get paid more than women because women can neither work the hours necessary to earn the higher rates , nor do they possess the skills to get the better jobs because of the time and effort they expend on the care of home and children . |
| 22 | One complained in 1802 : " In the factory we can never work the hours we can at home , nor make the best of our time . |
| 23 | She does not work the streets , but puts ads in newspapers and leaves cards in London telephone boxes . |
| 24 | He was a retired thatcher and he used to come and work the bees , as he said , at the saddler 's where I was apprentice . |
| 25 | Two centuries , thousands of lives , in a museum where the building is a part of the display , where the feet of visitors follow the path of the people who once worked the canals . |
| 26 | Well he worked the slates from outside you know . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | For ten years she worked the streets — you know , giving head and hand at a dollar a dick . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The Mayan peasants worked the plantations as debt slaves , until Mexico 's revolution transformed them into collective farmers . |