Example sentences of "worked the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We all knew Froggy , a caddie who had worked the circuit since the late fifties and had carried for many winners , including a couple of Open Champions — American , of course — in the mid-seventies .
2 In June of 1684 Sir John Lowther of Stockbridge wrote to Sir Daniel asking him to make enquiry if there were any men still living in the area who might have worked the copper mines at Caldbeck Keswick or elsewhere in Cumberland .
3 and er I thought er , I 've been playing about with the old ear for a song for a long time , but I ai n't worked the cords out
4 Erm since we 've we 've worked the flats I think , the the lads who 've worked up here have dealt with a a very broad erm a very broad aspect of incidence .
5 The er the special problems the complex presents at the moment , are very minimal compared to what er other police officers I 've spoke to who 've worked the flats in the past , have told me about .
6 Again , since the adoption of the 1.68 ball , European golfers have , perforce , worked the ball much more than they did the 1.62 .
7 They are certainly not small targets to be found with a metal detector and I was amazed that they were there , for they proved that no detector user had worked the area since my last visit .
8 Do not forget that if you have worked the shoulders in a soft fabric , it is better to stitch a piece of tape into the shoulder seam to ‘ hold ’ it in place .
9 But no matter how hard they are worked the population explosion continues .
10 The three men who had worked the lift continued to be employed at Foxton until the outbreak of the war in 1914 .
11 Again on this very course a while back it was only three people in the group in the week that I was watching and the guy who was running the session had , had worked the equation wrongly on the rating or whatever and the other two , never seen him before in their lives were saying that 's wrong and he started getting really annoyed .
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