Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] work [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 We are only beginning to work out these implications and our chapters of research can only be a base for others to examine in greater detail how our theories work .
2 You do n't know , we 're just trying to work out when he 's going home or and things like that
3 Right , oh we 're just trying to work out , you know , car here and getting bodies
4 Assessors are still trying to work out the full cost of the fire at the Spring Bank shopping centre , but initial estimates have been put at a quarter of a million pounds .
5 He turned in a performance to cherish against Surrey in the NatWest at Swansea , and the locals are still attempting to work out and why he did n't pocket the match award .
6 and er I 'm just trying to work out if it 's the same style as this .
7 it 's never had that before , I 'm just trying to work out where it 's come from .
8 I 'm just trying to work out
9 No , I 'm just trying to work out how long I 'm gon na be practising for West Side Story tomorrow because you might have to take my money my pocket money tomorrow I might not be able to get like home , sort of cos er I I might be practising till bloody six o'clock for all I know so I 'll get some chips or something .
10 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 .
11 At least I 've never heard him and I do n't think Aunt Alicia ever did , but when she was a young girl , they had trouble with servants who were always getting worked up about him .
12 In the 1970s , when it was designed , computers were hard put to work out how to minimise the radar reflected from curved surfaces — so the F-117A is made up of flat ones .
13 And my father 's said he 's going to help me with the fees , so it 's all going to work out . ’
14 It must and indeed is already beginning to work out its own salvation .
15 Anybody who 's still trying to work out the story about the wreath and the river , there was n't any point to it .
16 I was still trying to work out what that meant as she flurried off up to her bobble hat in snow .
17 His mind was still trying to work out the puzzle she had set him .
18 The ITA was simultaneously having to work out the details of its own role ; formulate rules that met the legislation 's requirements for quality , balance and so on , some of which — about imported American programmes , say — would affect the companies ' finances ; and ensure both that there was proper competition for the franchises , yet that the operation did not collapse through mismanagement or financial miscalculation .
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