Example sentences of "work cut [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel that the PR team have their work cut out at the best of times without the likes of Mr. Wigmore and his cheap , sensationalist style of so-called journalism . |
| 2 | My God , I 'd have my work cut out with this lot . |
| 3 | They 've got a couple of young kids , four and five , so she 's probably got her work cut out with them . |
| 4 | The choice of literature , as you realize was meant to be contrasting , and I put book down as an example of what I thought was the worst possible , er , use of use of psychoanalysis , kind of gutter journalism , erm and which you did n't look at , and it 's , it 's no criticism of you erm , because er , you had your work cut out with what you did do , but the reason I put down Gandhi 's Truth , if anybody 's ever read that , have they ? |
| 5 | He has his work cut out for him . |
| 6 | Either way , Sheriff Chuck Crotty has his work cut out for him . |
| 7 | T.V. hairdresser Andrew Collinge had his work cut out for him on 23rd January . |
| 8 | She feels SSDs which have not applied before , or do not have a clear commitment to HIV/AIDS , will ‘ have their work cut out for them ’ . |
| 9 | Now , what with drugs and violence , they had their work cut out without worrying unduly about the van-loads of cardboard boxes which regularly changed hands in the market . |
| 10 | No wonder he had his work cut out on the bench . |
| 11 | They had their work cut out in simply trying to provide defences against the incursions of cattle raiders from the North Tyne valley , over Bewcastle Waste , or through that tract of the western fringe so unsure of its ownership that it was known as the Debatable Land ; and their own people were themselves frequently as unruly as their enemies . |
| 12 | Anyhow , all this time Naylor was trying to tell my mother that I was a big lad now , but when I did n't turn up all day Saturday , he and my father had their work cut out in trying to calm her . |
| 13 | Olympic champions Linford Christie and Sally Gunnell will have their work cut out in their first individual races of the summer . |
| 14 | Any defence will have their work cut out against Wright/Campbell the way Arse play . |