Example sentences of "[prep] work the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The operation returns 46521 to its home base , the Severn Valley Railway after working the Network SouthEast Henley Branch shuttles early in November . |
| 2 | It is just a matter of working the receiver properly to ensure that the signal is received . |
| 3 | They were called bell pits because their shape in cross-section was like that of a bell due to the method of working the coal . |
| 4 | If you were the mine captain , how would you describe the problems of working the coal from the pit shown in the diagram ? |
| 5 | Apart from the obvious requirement of a personal computer of some sort the other equipment required depends almost entirely on what sort of work the system will be used for . |
| 6 | Today we are in the vulnerable position of producing barely half our own food , with only 2½ per cent of our people directly concerned with working the land , and that percentage is still falling . |
| 7 | In many ways the part of a horseman 's job calling for most of his skill was that concerned with working the land , and using a standard of craftsmanship set immeasurably high both by the tradition of his craft and by the immediate needs of cultivation ; and a horseman served a long and disciplined apprenticeship before he could attain to the standard demanded . |
| 8 | The instructions which come with a video recorder tend to be expressed in an amiable pidgin Japanese , but the citizen who misunderstands them suffers no worse fate than that of failing to record the programme that he wants , unless and until his ten-year-old grandson can be prevailed upon to work the thing for him . |
| 9 | The doctor , knowing him , looked doubtful , but the lad 's hands , strong from working the wax , settled smoothly into the rhythm . |
| 10 | The working principle is that obstructions are built into the lock to prevent the wrong shape of key from working the mechanism , and similar designs of lock are still use today ( although it has been suggested that the Romans were not able to invent a lock that could be operated from both sides of a door ) . |
| 11 | Calumny was inevitable , though Shelley seems to have been chiefly interested in working the feelings of a lively adolescent up to febrile hysteria . |
| 12 | This is comforting and helpful in itself but , as with the primary Anonymous Fellowships , the real benefit comes from active involvement in working the recovery programme together . |
| 13 | And then they would come from North Ronaldsay and that to the different to working the harvest again . |
| 14 | The giants are experts on working the crowd up into ‘ He 's behind you ! ’ pantomime scenarios and on making the physical manoeuvres look and sound bruising . |
| 15 | on working the ashtray . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's extraordinary , most people have dismissed her as a hype-merchant who 's just good at working the system , but then she delivers something like this . |
| 17 | As for working the ebony , it blunts tools very rapidly and it is really best to use scrapers and stockscrapers when performing shaping operations , as they keep their edge and give a superb shiny finish , leaving little cleaning up but for a rub-over with 400 grit paper . |
| 18 | Ordinary arrangements for working the line were for the time suspended . |
| 19 | Anyway , Dadda owed him a day off for working the Spring Holiday Monday to get those Chippendale chair seats done . |
| 20 | Through working the programme of recovery based upon the principles of the Anonymous Fellowships , there is gradual recovery of physical , intellectual , emotional and finally spiritual well-being . |
| 21 | We were a large family of seven and my father worked on the railway and he only had two pounds a week , but we could make three pounds and ten shillings just at the weekend by working the clubs . |
| 22 | Shaping like this can also be done on a plain ‘ V ’ neck cardigan by working the cable next to the front edge on the straight and leaving the pattern as it is during the shaping , working the decreases on the inner edge of the cable pattern where it will not show . |
| 23 | He displayed considerable skill in matching supply to the much-reduced demand by working the plant at below capacity . |
| 24 | By working the image — enlarging , layering and distorting — she explores the multiplicity of meaning embedded in fragments of reflected reality . |
| 25 | On landing I was able to do my bit by working the winch frenetically . |
| 26 | By working the pecs from different angles it is possible to direct the work-load to different parts of the muscle . |