Example sentences of "how to work the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You have to hire people that know how to work the equipment , who know how to repair things . |
| 2 | Accountants would always be kept busy showing the rest of us how to work the system . |
| 3 | Once I had got to grips with how to work the machine I noticed that the harmoniser in the machine did n't appear to work properly : ie. if I set the interval to a major 3rd , the processor would intermittently switch between a major 3rd and a minor 3rd . |
| 4 | Oh I just wanted to ask you how to work the machine but it 's done now . |
| 5 | It is the conversation that keeps things bubbling along , ranging from such familiar male topics as what you would do if a beautiful alien wanted to have guilt-free sex with you , to how to work the video programmer . |
| 6 | The next place he tried , the loneliest , was the rear turret , and that was once he had fathomed out how to work the heating system . |
| 7 | Do you know how to work the fire ? |
| 8 | His position is that we should think of rules as practices , as ways of behaving , and not suppose that to support this way of behaving there must be some internal interpretation of the rule which tells the rule-followers how to work the rule . |
| 9 | Well , the person who 's dropping him off might just check that there actually is somebody in the house , you know , so do you know how to work the television ? |
| 10 | Bringing it back to my point , though , there are people , if you have a typewriter , you do n't have to know how to work the typewriter , erm it seems to me , that we 're actually , the more we do , we make matters worse for ourselves . |
| 11 | 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 . |