Example sentences of "work [adv prt] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This seems to work in quite the opposite way for jokes , where silence , or a comment like " I " m sorry , I don " t get it " are negative responses to processing effort . |
| 2 | At the end of a day 's sailing it is worth thinking about what you have learned that day , and trying to work out why the new technique works better than the one it has replaced . |
| 3 | Two days after changing tack , Alexander set up a Commission on the Reorganization of Provincial and District Institutions to work out how the new principle was to be embodied in legislation . |
| 4 | So let's work out where the federal crime comes in . |
| 5 | Starting his career in the Midlands , over the years Stan worked up both the educational establishment and the country , aiming ever nearer Scotland ; until finally arriving at Carlisle , where he held his last post . |
| 6 | ‘ But I have n't worked out yet the full implications of the conspiracy . |
| 7 | MPs who on the whole tend to be rather casual about going to meetings organised for their benefit by pressure groups tend to go to the nuclear forum , because it is always well-structured and organised , and because they can then say to constituents who work in either the nuclear industry or the nuclear supply industry that they have been , and still are , taking an interest in the decisions that affect those particular electors . |
| 8 | He hung on until I came out and I was given embarkation leave or demob leave rather and I did n't even have a chance to have that , they wanted me down there so quickly , I think I came out of the forces one week and I was working down there the following week because was way past his retiring age . |