Example sentences of "working the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The locomotive is seen here passing Stonebridge , Durham working the 17.29 Heaton carriage sidings in York , with the stock for the York–Cardiff postal service , on 10 June 1988 . |
| 2 | Other plans in the pipeline at that time included two new cutters , longer and beamier than Venturous , capable of high speeds and suitable for working the stormy waters of the north . |
| 3 | Ease the elbows back , working the upper arms . |
| 4 | Compared with the strong forces and arguments working the other way all this counted for little . |
| 5 | I will sometimes arrange to discuss things on three successive Mondays , for example , or three successive months perhaps , because you never have to take a quick decision in a business , and out of the talking with people who respond to your way of working the right answer very often comes — the decisions mostly take themselves . |
| 6 | 2–Epb unit No 5723 halts at the station while working the 17.30 Elmers End to Sanderstead on 15 april 1983 . |
| 7 | But they argue that until enough new units have been funded , provided , and shown to be working the traditional hospitals are better than nothing . |
| 8 | Mistakenly , he thought that the figures he saw high up on the furthest rocks were working the rich secrets of the plumbago or wadd mine . |
| 9 | Deltic No 55003 Meld leaves the now closed and lifted section of the East Coast main line via Selby at Chaloners Whin Junction while working the 14.05 King 's Cross–york on 18 my 1980 . |
| 10 | We 've got two officer 's for example who are leading on working the young people in the town , Youth Development Officer 's er we , the Local Government Unit has a policy team initiated work on the youth policy , and this arose out of erm a member seminar 's , September eighty nine , where er the members felt that really the Council was n't doing enough for young people , that we as a Council , not not to think about young in the way we deliver our services and it was felt that we needed to go out and talked to young people , which we did in the winter of that year , erm and find out what they wanted from us , and the res as a result of that , that , that policy , and that consultation exercise has now developed into a front line service where we have two people full time working with young people in the town and that 's on various things , graffiti project , the underpasses in the town we , which have got graffiti type I mean I know there not everybody 's cup of tea , but I mean they way . |
| 11 | She is finally defeated by Ripley operating a mechanical lifter , a power loader a more sophisticated reprise of Sarah working the hydraulic press to ‘ terminate ’ her adversary in The Terminator ( Cameron 's self confessed love of machinery is apparent again ) . |
| 12 | Roe and Co. were working the eastern side . |
| 13 | I mean we did a lot of things that other people probably did n't do , I always remember next door to us at one time the curate of the St Mary 's church , er , who is er , he is now Bishop of mm , gosh , he 's a up in Nottingham way , Bishop of something or other , we met him at a , at a do not so very long ago and he 's just the same , he 's marvellous and he was the curate and they were as poor as church mice and er in relation to them we were really well off you know , and er they had hardly any fires or anything and we gave them an electric fire to heat their place up and er when we met him , it was last February at a , a do of one of the research engineers from where I was work working the last job I had and er , he said I 've still got the electric fire |
| 14 | For a moment he paused , stretching , working the last traces of the drug from his limbs , then crouched , listening again . |
| 15 | The test for this comes when someone , or some group , is offered a pay rise ( in real terms ) and the choice either of working the same number of hours and taking home the extra money or of maintaining their real income but reducing the hours worked . |
| 16 | The success of Hammer encouraged other companies into working the same seam . |
| 17 | This then inevitably means that by the early spring it is worth working the same ground a second time . |
| 18 | I have seen many other companies working the same sort of processes , and I have yet to find one which seems to have the final solution . |
| 19 | To ease working the next row , bring the six cable needles to E position and knit ten rows . |
| 20 | Paid by the job , when he finally knocks off , he has no idea if he will be working the next morning . |
| 21 | At the other extreme of the street , Mr Patel was able to confirm that a man had been working the previous day , and that morning , on the Ford Capri that was still there , still with the bonnet raised , still with a plastic bag on the battery . |
| 22 | Working the 12 Steps of Recovery of that Anonymous Fellowship . |
| 23 | In recovery , the anger has to be acknowledged and then dealt with constructively through working the 12 Steps . |
| 24 | The progress during the first year of recovery will vary from one person to another but for most people this first year in any Fellowship is spent mainly in compliance : doing what is suggested by people more experienced in the Anonymous Fellowships , attending meetings , contributing to them and giving practical service in them , progressively working the 12 Steps with the guidance of a sponsor and generally learning to use the various suggested techniques of staying away from one 's primary addictive substance or behaviour and learning to deal with stressful situations in a more appropriate manner than previously . |
| 25 | Working the 12 step Programme is not an end in itself but the method by which the sufferer is transformed from negativity to positively , from sickness to health and from a life of belligerence and blaming to a life that focuses upon creativity and an attitude of gratitude . |
| 26 | So acceleration is always working the opposite way to whichever way you 're measuring X and trying to pull it back . |
| 27 | Now repeat exercises 3 — 8 working the opposite leg . |
| 28 | Volunteers working the night-time shift know the number of calls will increase as darkness falls . |
| 29 | Now , faced with the Anglo-Irish accord , the three unionist leaders were again united and Paisley and Molyneaux were working the main street of Bangor to boost Kilfedder 's support . |
| 30 | From there the vans would be collected by the ex-Great Central Railway Fish Dock tankers ( a little outside cylinder 0 — 6 — 0 side tank locomotive of a short-wheel base design for working the tight curves on the docks ) and pushed up the fish jetty for loading with fish for despatch to such places as Leicester and Banbury as part of the express fish train service offered by the railway . |