Example sentences of "work the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He hands me a folded Guardian so we can work the indoor drop . |
| 2 | Such a society could work the traditional institutions of local government enshrined in the fiercely defended regional laws — the fueros . |
| 3 | The directors did n't work the long hours we did ! |
| 4 | This will work the following diagram |
| 5 | On Saturday , the device did not work the second time . |
| 6 | Some Swiss wonder whether a family responsibility will perhaps work the other way , and he will stay on for the 1992 Olympics . |
| 7 | Some Swiss wonder whether a family responsibility will perhaps work the other way , and he will stay on for the 1992 Olympics . |
| 8 | The support can work the other way ; physiological knowledge can help us to build models . |
| 9 | Sometimes , of course , it can work the other way round ; I recall a woman , going through a difficult time with her husband , returning after a few days ' holiday to find that he had swept and cleaned the house from top to bottom . |
| 10 | This way of teaching can work the other way about . |
| 11 | ‘ It can work the other way , too , ’ she adds . |
| 12 | Now I I 've chosen an example w with a Conservative Secretary of State and the Labour majority , but I ask the Noble Lords on all , in all parts of the House to think it could work the other way round , because a Labour Secretary of State could exercise exactly these powers in an area where with a er Conservative majority on on er on on the local council or councils and I ask the House to think of this , not in a party er as a as a party issue between Labour , Conservative or Liberal Democrat , I just ask you to consider whether it is right for a Secretary of State of any political persuasion to er secure by appointment to a police authority a political control from the centre of that police authority , because that is what the Government 's presents proposals would still achieve and er it is our view and it is the view of which is which is finds expression in Amendments five , eight and eleven that the we should return to the tripartite system of p of policing which policing is a partnership between the Chief Constable er the local authority in the area and the Home Secretary , that er tripartite arrangement has worked extremely well for thirty years , there have been minor conflicts in some parts of the country , but nothing to justify the wholesale removal of of of the partnership which is now proposed . |
| 13 | Or it might , of course , work the other way . |
| 14 | If the ruse did n't work the first time , it invariably did on the second occasion . |
| 15 | She will work the Cumbrian Mountain Express , the South Yorkshireman ( doubling as a positioning tour ) and then her final will be Ealing Broadway to Warwick return for the William Shakespeare Limited pending a return to her Southall Railway Centre home . |
| 16 | But the features that make Mr President sexy do n't work the same trick when the man behind them is thought to be a vacuum cleaner salesman from Bolton . |
| 17 | Now today if you rang me up to do removals , we do n't work the same way . |
| 18 | Well the reality is of course that Clare has already told us that internment did n't work the last time , it was badly done the last time . |
| 19 | And a , I was like Harry , you could , I could work the whole week and I , I would n't be dirty . |
| 20 | As this did not work the social worker accompanied the old man to the solicitor for a letter to evict the daughter . |