Example sentences of "had work [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barker grew very quickly , and had to work off a tremendous amount of energy every day , and since Danny was much too young to take him out for walks , this duty fell upon Connor . |
| 2 | We had to work out a short monologue in the voice of a character , and then afterwards we sat around and were asked who would volunteer to stand up and read their piece . |
| 3 | He said he still had to work out an acceptable solution to the dispute created by Israel 's deportation of 415 Palestinians from the occupied territories to an icy no man 's land in south Lebanon , where 396 of them remain . |
| 4 | Usually the two pilots who are on night duty sleep in the ambulance but the driver and medical orderly who also sleep in it had worked up a terrific ‘ fug ’ — ‘ Imshi ’ Mason and I felt we could not cope with the smell of unwashed feet , etc. , so we dragged the two stretchers out . ’ |
| 5 | Chantler noted , however , in 1952 , that ‘ the current investment review has been even more fantastic than its predecessors if that were possible ’ , and it was not until 1953 that the Treasury had worked out a new system of investment control . |
| 6 | He had worked out a basic form for this and photocopied it , leaving blanks to type in the appropriate names . |
| 7 | At the Penta the porters had worked out a neat scam with the airline crews who regularly booked into the hotel . |
| 8 | It was only after they had worked out the correct tautomeric form of each base and found that adenine is exactly the right shape to pair with thymine ( and guanine with cytosine ) that they thought of Erwin Chargaff 's discovery that DNA always contained equimolar amounts of bases in each of these pairs . |