Example sentences of "worked [adv prt] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because we 'd worked over that seam of conversation at infrequent intervals , in exactly the same order . |
| 2 | An earlier report , Citizens of Tomorrow ( 1955 ) produced by the King George 's Jubilee Trust , had worked over this theme of ‘ too much pocket-money and too little discipline ’ . |
| 3 | At least we would be out of the rat race until I had worked up some seniority in my job . |
| 4 | I 'd tried waiting for the natural course of events to bring me the way of the creche , some errand Mrs Goreng might send me on , but it had n't worked out that way . |
| 5 | But it has n't worked out that way and what happened last night was so … ’ |
| 6 | It was no good saying in her defence that she 'd only meant to be Cara Kingsdale for an hour , because things had n't worked out that way . |
| 7 | Marketing chiefs ‘ have been looking at the mathematics and have worked out that volume counts , ’ says Cunningham , pointing to Unix 's one million a year run rate against the huge base of Windows users — increasing at one million a month — many of which will be targeted for NT . |
| 8 | Some financial planners have worked out another loophole , telling their clients to hang on to the part of their income paid in company shares , because taxes on capital gains are unlikely to rise under President Clinton and may even fall . |
| 9 | And then , all I 've done is worked out some time management and say well if these guys turn up at half past eight every morning and I give them a break at ten o'clock , and they get a lunch break and then in afternoon , another break , and they finish at half past four , if everything goes to plan , by four o'clock Friday , my van should be backing up at the end of the production line to load itself up with a thousand widgets . |
| 10 | Military engineers would have worked out this information , and fed it into each missile , many months before . |