Example sentences of "[vb pp] work [adv prt] the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 A great deal of work now needs to be done to work out the details of the new arrangements .
2 Pupils are helped to work out the rules and patterns for themselves and to try out the new language forms .
3 They are required to think about the new language and with guidance are helped to work out the rules of grammar for themselves .
4 Even so eccentric a character as D. V. Karakozov , who attempted to assassinate Alexander II in 1866 , had gained direct experience while serving as an assistant to one of the peace arbiters appointed to work out the details of the Emancipation settlement .
5 Pupils are not simply presented with rules ; instead they are required to think about the new language and are guided to work out the rules of the language themselves .
6 According to the script , after an initial twenty minutes of Anglo-Saxon bombardment , the Turks would be weeping with fear and humiliation , and devoting much of their on-field activities to figuring out ways of being granted political asylum , rather than returning home to their doubtless murderous regime , where they would be summarily sent to work down the sewers for ten years .
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