Example sentences of "work [art] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would need children to work the land when they became old . |
| 2 | Once I remember having to work the switchboard when one of the girls was away on holiday — awful — I kept cutting people off . |
| 3 | A witness , Andrew Swanick , told Bristol Crown Court that Kelly took an arrow-shaped knuckle duster knife to work the day before the incident happened . |
| 4 | Head seems to work fairly well it 's easily cleaned out easily fed and the cows come to calf we just put them in the pend and after that once they 're a reasonable size we put them through into a byre and it easier to work the situation once the calves are a a fair size and pass the stage especially . |
| 5 | The Mayan peasants worked the plantations as debt slaves , until Mexico 's revolution transformed them into collective farmers . |
| 6 | Orders came in just as easily that way as they did when you strolled around and worked the room as you were supposed to . |
| 7 | worked a day since he left the skill . |
| 8 | The idea — to kid his players into producing their cracking post-Christmas form from the start of the season — worked a treat as they sleighed United . |
| 9 | We all knew Froggy , a caddie who had worked the circuit since the late fifties and had carried for many winners , including a couple of Open Champions — American , of course — in the mid-seventies . |
| 10 | 3/Slowly darkening the area , continuing to smudge and highlight with the eraser again and again , I work the piece until it looks right . |
| 11 | Slowly darkening the area , continuing to smudge and highlight with the eraser again and again , I work the piece until it looks right . |
| 12 | Many farmers had given up working the land because of low rates of return and had turned to producing more lucrative goods . |
| 13 | Well for most we try and work a Shorthorn for I think that the Shorthorn and the black bull is the true traditional cattle you know maybe and I do n't believe for one minute that the the cattle would be any better if you had a lot of Limousins or something else . |