Example sentences of "[pers pn] work [prep] [v-ing] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He forces you to work at controlling the character because he brings so much to the part . ’ |
| 2 | In the meantime , she worked on demeaning the members of the politburo . |
| 3 | I went to my house in Madrid with Nicolas Roeg , the lighting cameraman , and we worked on rewriting the script . |
| 4 | Yet still they work in improving the mood from where it is now and still there may be no perception that the depressed mood and damaging consequences of use could possibly be the responsibility of the very substances and processes that seem to be the only things that can make life better . |
| 5 | They work by stiffening the coupling between the trailer and car . |
| 6 | They work by detecting the by-products of the vaginitis bacteria that cause its characteristic fishy smell , and can be carried out in the surgery in two minutes , thus avoiding the usual five to 10-day wait for lab test results — and prolonged discomfort . |
| 7 | Allowing his legs to relax , he worked at unlatching the twin bolts and eased the door open , clambering inside where he dropped to his knees , exhausted , his chest heaving as he sucked in mouthfuls of air . |
| 8 | It works by disrupting the market and presenting the employer with a choice either to close operations or concede the union 's demands . |
| 9 | After you 've played through this example , make sure that you understand both how and why it works by comparing the notes in the phrase to the key centre of A. To make this really easy , I have written the numbers of the intervals involved underneath the tablature notation ! |
| 10 | It works by detecting the presence of hCG ( human Chorionic Gonadotropin ) in the urine . |
| 11 | It works by boosting the amount of serotonin in the brain to about ten times the usual level . |
| 12 | It works by boosting the body 's immune system and preventing the further development of the HIV virus . |
| 13 | It works by boosting the supply of serotonin a chemical produced naturally in the brain . |
| 14 | It would have made it more difficult , but the way that Maxwell used to involve himself in bulk transfers , you know and move , move two hundred pensioners from there to there and er no money followed and this sort of thing , I think that er that he could of quite frankly done exactly the same thing and we really feel that the , that the role of the pension regulator and the and the opposing role with I M R O that , that you really if we 're not careful , we 're going to put in another layer of bureaucracy and have a pension regulator who 's got the task of of checking a , a hundred and twenty eight thousand pension funds , when really there 's probably out of those a hundred and twenty eight thousand , ninety-nine point five per cent of probably being very well well run and , and quite safe and what , what we ca n't really see in the report is a is a method of identifying the determined fraudster at a at a very early stage , you know and we 're just terribly disappointed that er that Good has just thrown the whole of , of the matter back at I M R O who we feel have proved to tha that I do n't think they 're up to the task , I think that the that the whole question of er of the power of a self regulatory body which to us works on blowing the whistle , you know the whole the whole effect of a self regulatory body is that it 's members that it , it 's really like a club is n't it , you know and we 're all members of this club and if one of us er is gon na do something wrong , then the rest of us are gon na have to pay for it . |