Example sentences of "[pron] work the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Against his steady progress I worked the cameras frantically , images and sequences flooding my mind , until suddenly he was up , axes raised against the white of the scurrying clouds . |
| 2 | well you can get so far , but then I work the brackets out and you do n't always have to work the brackets out |
| 3 | ‘ I work the lifts , ’ he went on , more expansively . |
| 4 | There were forty rooms in the warehouse , twenty on either side of the corridor and Fritz let the rooms to the street girls who worked the docks . |
| 5 | For ten years she worked the streets — you know , giving head and hand at a dollar a dick . |
| 6 | Perhaps that was why she worked the hours she did in the most gruelling part of the hospital , picking up the pieces — literally , sometimes — and putting them back together if possible , consoling distraught relatives if not . |
| 7 | The phrase ‘ black humour ’ had an altogether different ring once you 'd caught the racist patter of the stand-up comedians who work the clubs and pubs round Brick Lane or the Mile End Road . |
| 8 | I say you know , we do talk to each other as police officers and talking to the lads who work the flats , from when they were busy to you know , now it 's on the you know , I think what , there 's about three hundred people is there ? |
| 9 | ‘ And gardeners who work the allotments … ’ |
| 10 | They complain about the expense , but it is still better than the alternative : ‘ Before , we worked the fields with pure lung power ’ . |
| 11 | We get all , I , all he comes home , we works the horses in the morning and goes and stays you see overnight and |
| 12 | Above all , they worked the tides , using those heaven-sent moving roads of water to help them on their way . |
| 13 | Well he worked the slates from outside you know . |
| 14 | I 've never heard of anyone working the hours I worked but then again I was living there and that was my disadvantage . |
| 15 | then he works the hours required . |
| 16 | Ma-in-law did n't like the idea of her being in Norfolk with the Whistler on the prowl , not with me working the hours I do . ’ |