Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] work out " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , you should not work out the entire mock interview beforehand or you will lose the element of spontaneity . |
| 2 | If the wind is blowing directly onshore , you should also work out which is the best tack to set off on . |
| 3 | It may not work out that way , but the teacher here has , of course , had matching , ordering and sorting in mind . |
| 4 | But this strategy might not work out as the British government hoped ; the resultant ‘ unfreezing [ could ] release the political energies of the people ’ , and it could lead to a situation in which Protestant workers were weaned away from Orangeism and united with their Catholic fellow workers in the Labour movement : |
| 5 | I think we 'll just work out |
| 6 | I expect I 'll soon work out how to drive it back to the quarry , and we can pick them all up . |
| 7 | They 'll soon work out where the lorry came from and they 'll be coming up here and I think they might be very angry . ’ |
| 8 | It does n't matter if we get them the wrong way round it 'll still work out . |
| 9 | However , car buyers should be aware that all kinds of discounts are available on new cars and that an interest-free loan for 75 per cent for two years might still work out more expensive than borrowing elsewhere and getting a large cash discount on the purchase price . |
| 10 | She had a sudden feeling that if she could only work out how the ecology of Moloch ticked , she would have a vital clue , if not to discovering Ace 's whereabouts , then at least to getting a handle on the vanished aliens . |
| 11 | He felt ashamed of her , and he could not work out why her mother should have such a smile on her face . |
| 12 | Millions and millions of bits of information were still in her head , correctly labelled and neatly stored , but she could not work out the geography of this house , she was seeing green tigers and she was afraid in a way she had not been since childhood . |
| 13 | She could not work out how far away it was , but the shrill was enough to hammer into her skull like nails . |
| 14 | The participating banks each knew who the other participants were , but the figures in the report were presented so that readers could not work out which figures came from which bank . |
| 15 | This was a worry to me because I could not work out how much money I would have to live on . |
| 16 | But she could not work out what the point was that Spruce thought obvious but which the clergy — herself included — had n't grasped . |
| 17 | Unfortunately they could not work out how to change the setting from low resolution and FAXgrabber found it really hard to make a good job converting a fax of a press realise announcing its launch . |
| 18 | She tried to avoid Bryony , which was difficult because she could not work out her routine . |
| 19 | I knew she had psychic gifts , but I could not work out how she was so clued in to this film . |
| 20 | I could not work out what it might be . |
| 21 | you , you could not work out that it was one pound fifty nine , you could , you could assume that it was a proportion of that six pound thirty five |
| 22 | You are , I mean , I could just work out , I said , your Margaret and John are a lot like you . |
| 23 | You could also work out in our fully equipped gymnasium so it sounds pretty plush does n't it ? |
| 24 | ‘ Well , dumbo , if we had a London street map and telephone directory , we could probably work out where she lives . |
| 25 | It looks like forty five , and it 's almost certainly going to be forty five , and we could probably work out some reason why it would be forty five . |
| 26 | As I could n't work out where they were coming from I ignored them . |
| 27 | I could n't work out how you got there so quickly . |
| 28 | ‘ Owen always seemed to have an enormous amount of mail at Stratford and would come straight from the stage door to the green room , clutching a handful of letters which he would clasp to his body in a special way which I had n't realised he did until I started drawing this picture and could n't work out what to do with the arms . |
| 29 | Henry could n't work out , from Donald 's description , which of these alternatives was best described by the Madonna Complex , indeed he did n't really listen to a word either of them said . |
| 30 | I just could n't work out how to bring it about . |