Example sentences of "worked the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old seamen worked the sea . |
| 2 | On the other hand there 's a part of me that rejoices , that is glad he paid the way he did , that for once the world worked the way it 's supposed to , punishing the wrongdoer … and that saddens and sickens me too , because I think that this must be the way Andy feels all the time . |
| 3 | Two centuries , thousands of lives , in a museum where the building is a part of the display , where the feet of visitors follow the path of the people who once worked the canals . |
| 4 | It did look good from the outside , even at this time of the year , an eighteenth-century fenland cottage , half-timbered and thatch-roofed , originally built as a home for the man who worked the sluice gates . |
| 5 | In his later years Bunyan spent much of his time visiting and overseeing nearby congregations , whilst his son worked the forge . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In the library where Ianthe worked the approach of Christmas had made itself felt , though it would be too much to say that any particularly Christmas spirit or noticeable increase of goodwill could be discerned , even though Shirley had hung up a few coloured paper chains . |
| 8 | Karen Binns worked the door at various Manhattan clubs . |
| 9 | ‘ My old man worked the river all his life , doing deliveries , pick-ups . |
| 10 | As she worked the crochet table-mats her mother had ordered , the intricate sequence of stitches could blot out for a moment or two the scenes that daily since that Easter feast she had staged between herself and Tommaso Talvi . |
| 11 | Ian sculled , Dhani worked the rudder . |
| 12 | He worked the rudder pedals to show them . |
| 13 | There was the high-class brothel , managed by Michael Lee , which operated out of the house across the park from Katherine 's own home , and then there were the dozen or so girls — the pick of the brothel girls — who worked the society parties . |
| 14 | Lang thought Churchill ( from this point of view only ) the worst prime minister who ever worked the system . |
| 15 | Still on his knees , Grant raised the shotgun and , ignoring the protest from his injured bicep , worked the cocking mechanism and fired at the nightmarish , clawing figure before him . |
| 16 | Well describing all those super videos er worked the oracle . |
| 17 | If everything worked the deer would kill themselves , impaling their bodies on the wall of bamboo stakes . |
| 18 | They were , Mahmoud explained , the beggars who normally worked the part of the river where Leila 's body had come ashore . |
| 19 | Kitty knew them as well as any animal , as intimately as the dogs who worked the sheep and hunted the foxes and badgers and otters . |
| 20 | He worked the blade into the slot and waggled it about . |
| 21 | His grandfather worked the coalface and his father was a Miners ' Union official . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Well he worked the slates from outside you know . |
| 24 | They worked the mill for five years , after which Edward Palling , who also ran Brookhouse mill , took over . |
| 25 | They subsequently worked the mill to great effect , but fluctuations in trade caused problems for them among others . |
| 26 | By the 1930s , Wyman had been replaced by Charles Dee , who worked the mill throughout the decade . |
| 27 | He worked the pump action frantically to eject the spent cartridge and reload . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | GWR engines worked the turn for about six weeks . |
| 30 | Quickly , Forster worked the bar again , and again . |