Example sentences of "[pron] worked the [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the birds who worked the submission trade did . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He worked the pump action frantically to eject the spent cartridge and reload . |
| 4 | Grimly he worked the pump action to eject the load , closing his mind to the thought of the wall and ceiling smeared with his brain matter , when he put the muzzle in his mouth and pulled the trigger . |
| 5 | So far , the British Electric Traction Co. had held all the capital and completely controlled the expenditure and policy of the South Metropolitan undertaking , just as it had when it worked the Corporation system . |