Example sentences of "the [noun] work the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So for the trick to work the parent must always be perfectly safe . |
| 2 | It is better if this problem can be avoided by having the operators work the system properly . |
| 3 | When he got to the pontoon , he saw Dickie , sitting in the cabin working the winch that raised the end of the pipe , to clear it . |
| 4 | This technique is particularly valuable for cleaning oven interiors when the cleaner works the jet from the top sweeping across the wall and working progressively downwards chasing the dirt with it . |
| 5 | In that case , the ’ branching ratio ’ is a suitable number which makes the calculations work the way we want . |
| 6 | Now , possibly alerted by advisers from outside ( such as C. M. Bowerman , from the London Society of Compositors , chairman of the NPKTF , and member of parliament , who attended the negotiations during 1910 ) , the committee of the ETS on behalf of its members , came into line with compositors everywhere else in claiming the right to work the machines . " |
| 7 | A slow retrieve , occasionally stopping to allow the bait to sink back to depth , then speeding up to run the bait to the surface working the bait as a lure or wobbled bait would be , the difference is that on this occasion you could be doing it at 150 yards from the bank and an area never covered by bankside wobblers . |
| 8 | If such advances are to be made and put into practice by the people working the land , then higher soil losses can be ‘ tolerated ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ Many years ago the people worked the land . ’ |
| 10 | The following morning , she caught the first flight out of Lisbon on one of the old KLM Dutch airliners , which had escaped the clutches of the Nazis to work the Portugal-England route . |
| 11 | Full absorption of the meaning of the atonement allowed the Spirit to work the conversion of the sinner . |
| 12 | I had to put it on the floor to work the door bar and once I had it open , I slid it out with my foot . |
| 13 | Only , the Egyptian is normally skirted and , while putting the left foot forward , keeps all the weight on the right , whereas in the Greek works the weight is evenly distributed , as though in the act of walking . |
| 14 | Young and slim , dressed in blue jeans and denim jacket , the man worked the Dancing Fly . |
| 15 | As he ran she saw the man working the gun into the front of his overalls , and she saw him also , with his free hand , drag the woollen cap back down across his forehead . |
| 16 | You watch the bronze figure of the man working the shadoof , which he has done since the time of the Pharaohs . |
| 17 | The pilot went to the front of the plane to work the controls , and the men started to refuel the plane . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In the standard works the need to protect the client from the consequences of his own ignorance have been emphasised . |
| 20 | The Florios worked the room with ease and self-confidence and by the time they had reached the podium an aide to the candidate was saying that almost a million dollars had already been raised for the Democratic campaign . |