Example sentences of "it [be] [adj] work [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's hard work building a nest , but there s still time to stop and share a tit bit . |
| 2 | Grendon starts doing its best work after 18 months , but it 's hard work getting there . |
| 3 | She says it 's hard work having to think of other ways of getting around — having always to take into consideration the bus timetables — I ca n't arrange to meet friends unless there 's a bus at that time and coming home — leaving the pubs — I have to drink up quickly if I want to catch the last bus home . |
| 4 | It 's hard work pumping up the inflatable with a foot pump , so why not use someone 's drysuit inflator instead ? |
| 5 | Well I do n't know what it does , but the only reason you ca n't get it off is you 're not working it , it 's hard work to get it off Dawn . |
| 6 | Oh I think er starting fr it 's harder work starting Well it 's hard work anyway th I mean sometimes er a a job that 's been polished before , it 's patchy but I mean that 's really all stripped down to You know what I mean , it 's it 's a It 's that 's all stripped down |
| 7 | It 's tough work staging the Battle of Edgehill , with an eye for authenticity and tough on the props that bring realism to a 350 year old battle . |
| 8 | It is slow work to change public usages like ‘ the subvention ’ . |
| 9 | Ministers in particular are keenly aware that whereas it is uphill work to gain popular support for specific policies , it is very easy to lose public confidence in the way that crime is handled . |
| 10 | It is hard work to sort out facts from a lot of woolly detail , worse still if the main word is forgotten in mid-stream . |
| 11 | The till , the till locks , and erm we used to assemble those as well and er it was a fortunate one who used to do the lacquering , there was a big er big erm heated table and er it was easy work to do the lacquering you see and you used to have to put them on the top of the heated tower to dry before they were packed to go away , but erm they were , it was a hard place to work for but er the one son Mr he was always in London and er this is n't being recorded now is it , is it ? |
| 12 | The other end was already harnessed to a team of horses , so it was easy work pulling off the entire roof in one smack . |
| 13 | It was hard work getting paid , as well . |
| 14 | It was it was fun when we first started , because the weather was nice , you know it was er you c take a thermos up and have a picnic and sit in the chair and read a book or whatever if there was no one around , but after a while when it became a duty , yeah it was hard work getting up on a winter 's morning , knowing full well that you probably would n't see any cars if you down in until about ten in the morning , but you still had to be there at seven o'clock , and honking it down with rain or whatever . |
| 15 | ‘ It was hard work handling the trusses . |
| 16 | You know I men sort of you know , for very little , like the Conservative Party you know , it was hard work lugging all the you know , you pack it all up , you lug it all there . |
| 17 | It was hard work trying to understand Franco and by the end of the last telling of the story Sandison was happy to accept a second , though rather smaller , whisky . |
| 18 | It was hard work pulling the ship , and the men argued . |
| 19 | They were all set to poling now , and it was hard work navigating the flatboat upstream . |
| 20 | It was slow work to find the English gold guineas that we needed . |
| 21 | And it was uphill work coming home afterwards ; and if I 'd ha' hit a cobweb I 'd ha' fallen back'uds . |