Example sentences of "it was [adj] work " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was pleasant work . |
| 2 | ‘ It was dry work , ’ Menzies summed up , ‘ so I came back then for some refreshment . |
| 3 | The play revolves around Brose , a harebrained nonentity machine-operator , who runs a boiler room of a semi-automated antiseptic dye factory , having taken the job because it was easy work and non-union , and who manages to annoy everybody except his fiancée . |
| 4 | It was easy work for him . |
| 5 | The other end was already harnessed to a team of horses , so it was easy work pulling off the entire roof in one smack . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | It was absorbing work , scrambling over the rocks , especially hampered by a hat in one hand , so after a while she left the hat on a dry plateau beside a pool and pursued her way unencumbered . |
| 8 | It was endless Work was a chore . |
| 9 | It was hot work for all hands . |
| 10 | It was hot work . |
| 11 | It was back-breaking work . |
| 12 | It also began to look at proposals for MA courses , and at its November 1966 meeting , for example , it expressed the view that a proposed MA in Business Administration at Portsmouth College of Technology did not meet the CNAA 's criterion that the content should be substantially postgraduate in character : too much of it was introductory work , insufficiently rooted in the basic disciplines . |
| 13 | It was tiring work , leaving no time to think of what they had left behind , or what might lie ahead of them . |
| 14 | But if there was one thing the past weeks had taught her it was that work was an antidote to worry . |
| 15 | But erm I real I really enjoyed it and er to me it was interesting work and I do n't know that I can tell you much more about the locks . |
| 16 | It was hard work — but it was worth it ! |
| 17 | ‘ I expected it to be hard because , when we tested here last February , I did a full race distance and it was hard work , very painful . ’ |
| 18 | Marie collapsed onto the grass : it was hard work , pushing that chair . |
| 19 | It was hard work . |
| 20 | Tom would n't wear rain gear because he could n't find a set to really fit his 6ft 3in frame , so it was hard work for me to keep him dry . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It was hard work ! |
| 23 | It was hard work but we all felt rewarded at the end of the day — not like at Sakata — routine work and then out on your neck . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ It was hard work but they did a fantastic job on me . |
| 25 | ‘ But they were a small club and it was hard work . |
| 26 | It was hard work but brilliant . |
| 27 | But it was hard work . |
| 28 | It was hard work . |
| 29 | We had seven carts to carry our furniture up that icy hill , but it was hard work for the horses . |
| 30 | It was hard work for them and they got tired very quickly . |