Example sentences of "work the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Saturday , the device did not work the second time . |
| 2 | If the ruse did n't work the first time , it invariably did on the second occasion . |
| 3 | Well the reality is of course that Clare has already told us that internment did n't work the last time , it was badly done the last time . |
| 4 | ‘ I was always afraid of things which worked the first time . ’ |
| 5 | Wordsworth composed aloud while walking , ‘ his jaws working the whoal time ’ , to quote a peasant 's recollections . |