Example sentences of "[noun] work the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took me less than ten minutes to work the whole thing out . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Half-naked children with slit eyes and matchstick limbs worked the emerging crowd with grim efficiency . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Food colour pens work the same way as felt tips , but are non-toxic . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | Walter Bageho , in his classic work The English Constitution , identified England as a " deferential nation , " one that had a structure of its own . |
| 9 | This provision is to cover the situation where a person works the same number of hours within , say 4 days , instead of 5 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Two days before the sack of Rome , I was doing a job on a Jewish fortune-teller working the Appian Way , and — ’ |
| 12 | Warm-up man Daley Pike works the enthusiastic crowd , carefully testing the good humour of various individuals . |
| 13 | Compared with the strong forces and arguments working the other way all this counted for little . |
| 14 | John Tavener 's cello work The Protecting Veil is hymn-like and bordering on the minimalist . |
| 15 | Wordsworth composed aloud while walking , ‘ his jaws working the whoal time ’ , to quote a peasant 's recollections . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | Volunteers working the night-time shift know the number of calls will increase as darkness falls . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | So it can be seen that the Wolverton Royal Train , with this modern programme , will move into the 21 st century , giving Wolverton Works the unique role of conveyors of Royalty through three centuries . |
| 27 | The exemption works the opposite way round to the expert customer test ( see page 37 above ) . |
| 28 | different hand set works the black stripe . |
| 29 | The aim with 78018 is to use her on the former Stockton and Darlington , Stanhope and Tyne Wear Valley routes which are used for summer Sunday pacer trains and cement traffic to Blue Circle 's Eastgate Cement Works the current limit of the line . |
| 30 | In moving into family work the social worker has a complex number of responsibilities to balance : |