Example sentences of "[pron] work the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is impossible for me to work the way I want to work when she is on the stage . ’ |
| 2 | I worked the committee hard and fast , and overtime too , cutting down on the lunch break and carrying on late in the afternoon . |
| 3 | Certainly , in many of his works the Prince has juggled well with the varied problems of painting and has produced a sensitive and interesting result . |
| 4 | If I work the way I want to , what will the teacher think who takes them next year ? |
| 5 | 3/Slowly darkening the area , continuing to smudge and highlight with the eraser again and again , I work the piece until it looks right . |
| 6 | Slowly darkening the area , continuing to smudge and highlight with the eraser again and again , I work the piece until it looks right . |
| 7 | With a tripod you lose the freedom of camera mobility which you have with a hand-held camera , and if you decide to dispense with a tripod , a position at 3 m ( 10 ft ) or so from the subjects will allow you to work the zoom from wide angle down to midrange for close-ups . |
| 8 | Li Yuan sat there , entranced by the fluency of her playing , the swift certainty of her fingers across the strings , by the passionate tiny movements of her head as she wrought the tune from nothingness . |
| 9 | It did look good from the outside , even at this time of the year , an eighteenth-century fenland cottage , half-timbered and thatch-roofed , originally built as a home for the man who worked the sluice gates . |
| 10 | There was the high-class brothel , managed by Michael Lee , which operated out of the house across the park from Katherine 's own home , and then there were the dozen or so girls — the pick of the brothel girls — who worked the society parties . |
| 11 | By the 1930s , Wyman had been replaced by Charles Dee , who worked the mill throughout the decade . |
| 12 | Every man owed allegiance to a Lord — the tenants who worked the field would hold his land from the owner , who would be either a Baron ; a Bishop , or the Abbott of a monastery , to whom the tenant had to render service . |
| 13 | Amused relief showed briefly on the faces of the two zonked chinks who worked the counter . |
| 14 | The girl who worked the front of house had already gone home and Rose had to take the money out of the safe and open up the box office to give the patrons their money back . |
| 15 | All the birds who worked the submission trade did . |
| 16 | The " broad acres " of a landed estate were in fact composed of a number of farms , each yielding a rent paid by the tenant farmer who worked the farm . |
| 17 | As she worked the crochet table-mats her mother had ordered , the intricate sequence of stitches could blot out for a moment or two the scenes that daily since that Easter feast she had staged between herself and Tommaso Talvi . |
| 18 | She worked the ragstore , she had worked there all her days , since she had left school — and a whisker away from a special one — what wits she had ; and wit let her steal the jacket , Mr McGregor 's broken arm . |
| 19 | There was no point in her dropping out and wrecking the film and , in any case , for as long as she worked the film company would pick up Maisie 's crippling Canadian hospital bills . |
| 20 | She worked the slide of the Beretta , then took fifteen rounds from the box of 9mm ammunition . |
| 21 | I mean you could think of a brilliant illustration , and then you work the message out from it , which is the wrong way round . |
| 22 | You 're gon na have some tremendously large numbers if you work the formula are n't you ? |
| 23 | They are the feudal nobility who own the land , and the landless serfs who work the land . |
| 24 | She is more cheered , although at first puzzled , by the fact that as she works the excess of Teint Naturel on her skin , her appearance begins to improve . |
| 25 | She works the room like a pro , an affectionate star turn . |
| 26 | He is not quite as good as Mike Gatting , who works the ball all along the ground on both sides of the wicket , but Graham now has no fear of stepping down the track to any spinner and planting the ball firmly over long-on . |
| 27 | As the clearing up began , John Perry , who works the farm with his elderly mother started rounding up the herd . |
| 28 | You find an awful lot of things talking to Fred who works the filter press , y'know . |
| 29 | we had to pull forward it 's not due so we 've got er so we 've given them three days to You see when we worked out the numbers for the we were given all the , the allowances , the rates et cetera , et cetera , we worked the forecast through and seen huge amounts of time given for which the assumption is that it 's all done by hand , the job these cranes so the resources how much money had been spent . |
| 30 | In the roof , standard Apaches had two concentric handles , the larger one working the elevator trim and the small handle adjusting the rudder tab . |