Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] work the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Their lands were now being occupied by poorer people , their former servants , who had not the means , nor , to judge from McQueen 's words , the energies or capacities to work the land properly ; by such measures were they witnessing the reduction of the great Scottish holdings .
2 British Columbia 's forward strength and willingness to work the ball wide in the second half , as injury-hit Newfoundland , tired , brought five tries , two of them pushovers for the expected result .
3 Although the pre-Inca inhabitants of Colombia and Ecuador worked the metal satisfactorily , apparently by primitive powder metallurgy , this was naturally in very small quantities .
4 The most general form of this view is that the tenth-century rulers of Germany and England worked the church , and particularly the reformed monasteries within it , into a system of government .
5 With the necessary minimum of technical instruction on camera and sound work the group then set to work to produce their own video film .
6 As with all CAB advice work , the public must be aware of the service available , but in particular in hospital and prison work the clients must be constantly reminded that confidentiality is paramount .
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