Example sentences of "[noun] work the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose it 's too much to expect a senior Queen 's Counsel to work the same hours as ordinary folk , ’ Bragg said grumpily . |
| 2 | It took me less than ten minutes to work the whole thing out . ’ |
| 3 | Following extensive maintenance work the 2.5 acre South Wirral lake is being refilled with water and is ahead of schedule for fishing early in 1993 . |
| 4 | Half-naked children with slit eyes and matchstick limbs worked the emerging crowd with grim efficiency . |
| 5 | The extremely utilitarian front end of the Sprinters is displayed against the massive ironwork of the Forth Bridge by No 150284 as it heads south working the 13.40 Dundee to Edinburgh train on 29 August 1988 . |
| 6 | I have seen many other companies working the same sort of processes , and I have yet to find one which seems to have the final solution . |
| 7 | Food colour pens work the same way as felt tips , but are non-toxic . |
| 8 | It should be said , however , that the press behind the neck exercise works the upper trapezius quite heavily , so if the trapezius muscles are already well developed the exercise should be avoided . |
| 9 | For the eye to work the following minimum perfectly coordinated steps have to take place ( there are many others happening simultaneously , but even a grossly simplified description is enough to point up the problems for Darwinian theory ) . |
| 10 | A woman who worked 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. said , " My husband works the same hours . |
| 11 | Walter Bageho , in his classic work The English Constitution , identified England as a " deferential nation , " one that had a structure of its own . |
| 12 | This provision is to cover the situation where a person works the same number of hours within , say 4 days , instead of 5 . |
| 13 | But the Martian Government has signed a contract guaranteeing weekly delivery to the Furus — the native tribes of Mars — in return for which the Furus work the red iron mines . |
| 14 | Two days before the sack of Rome , I was doing a job on a Jewish fortune-teller working the Appian Way , and — ’ |
| 15 | Warm-up man Daley Pike works the enthusiastic crowd , carefully testing the good humour of various individuals . |
| 16 | Compared with the strong forces and arguments working the other way all this counted for little . |
| 17 | The locomotive is seen here passing Stonebridge , Durham working the 17.29 Heaton carriage sidings in York , with the stock for the York–Cardiff postal service , on 10 June 1988 . |
| 18 | John Tavener 's cello work The Protecting Veil is hymn-like and bordering on the minimalist . |
| 19 | Wordsworth composed aloud while walking , ‘ his jaws working the whoal time ’ , to quote a peasant 's recollections . |
| 20 | There were insufficient vehicles in the first delivery to work the whole service between Sutton and Croydon and several of the earlier 1–60 batch ex-L.U.T. trolleybuses , known as ‘ Diddlers ’ because of the clicking noise their contactors made , had to be used during the first few weeks . |
| 21 | For it was precisely this idea that he promoted when he exhibited the drawings at his Gallery 291 , beginning in late May 1916 , and when he wrote about them in an issue of Camera Work the following October . |
| 22 | 1715 An Act against Brybrie. 1721 against giving anything to " Thiggers or Sorners. " 1725 against stealing horses or cattle ; transporting servants or any other persons to other countries , especially to Ireland ; weavers to " take the meall of the Country at the rate of the Country for their Work " ; that " shoemakers work the common whang at a shill . |
| 23 | As we have already observed ( see ( 35 ) ) , the verb see , in its ordinary uses , can not be expected to occur with an adverbal adjective , but this does appear to be the interpretation needed for ( 41 ) which may be considered substandard but is apparently possible in current British English : ( 41 ) even if the scheme does fail , I 'll see you comfortable Much more often , the idiomaticity works the other way , so that a set of lexical items that could fit the structure of ( 21 ) , with appropriate values , seem to give unacceptable sentences , as in ( 42 ) : ( 42 ) Eva played her opponent exhausted Wendy wiped the floor moist |
| 24 | Volunteers working the night-time shift know the number of calls will increase as darkness falls . |
| 25 | For every dollar you spend on software , he alleges that you 'll spend between one and a half and two dollars simply on getting that software to work the other software you have . |
| 26 | The capacitive system works the other way around in that the stylus is used to detect a series of coded pulses fed into a two-layer grid . |
| 27 | The capacitive system works the other way around in that the stylus is used to detect a series of coded pulses fed into a two-layer grid . |
| 28 | The proposed system works the same way as summer E grades , with a Roman numeral ( I-X etc ) encompassing the overall difficulty of the route including seriousness , protection , sustainedness and length , and an Arabic numeral ( 1–10 etc ) to reflect the technical difficulty of the hardest pitch or crux sequence . |
| 29 | And , because all this capability was part of the Macintosh operating system it was available to any software developer so almost every package that appears for the system works the same way . |
| 30 | She is finally defeated by Ripley operating a mechanical lifter , a power loader a more sophisticated reprise of Sarah working the hydraulic press to ‘ terminate ’ her adversary in The Terminator ( Cameron 's self confessed love of machinery is apparent again ) . |