Example sentences of "work the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had had to work the first Sunday . |
| 2 | ( I saw a party of friends — all knowing that their host and hostess must either clear up before retiring , or rise early before going to work the next day — whisking round to help before they left . |
| 3 | GPs will often find themselves in a situation where they are working one day , they are on duty all night , and then have to work the next day as well . |
| 4 | If you have difficulty crossing the cables , in that some yarns are very stiff and resist crossovers , you may find it easier to work the next row of knitting by hand . |
| 5 | Leith wondered , as she drove to work the next morning , why she had bothered getting the car out , since she was convinced that , his warning unheeded , Naylor Massingham would waste no time in getting her out of his business . |
| 6 | On Saturday , the device did not work the second time . |
| 7 | If the ruse did n't work the first time , it invariably did on the second occasion . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ I was always afraid of things which worked the first time . ’ |
| 10 | That would n't have happened to McEllhoney , the big Glaswegian who worked the next beat to his . |
| 11 | Hearing on the grapevine that Island Records ' in-house Fallout Shelter studios were in need of a trainee engineer , he pestered them for an interview that afternoon and began work the next day . |
| 12 | He asked Karen to start work the next day . |
| 13 | I started work the next day . |
| 14 | They 're not too worried about getting up for work the next day . |
| 15 | I mean we did a lot of things that other people probably did n't do , I always remember next door to us at one time the curate of the St Mary 's church , er , who is er , he is now Bishop of mm , gosh , he 's a up in Nottingham way , Bishop of something or other , we met him at a , at a do not so very long ago and he 's just the same , he 's marvellous and he was the curate and they were as poor as church mice and er in relation to them we were really well off you know , and er they had hardly any fires or anything and we gave them an electric fire to heat their place up and er when we met him , it was last February at a , a do of one of the research engineers from where I was work working the last job I had and er , he said I 've still got the electric fire |
| 16 | For a moment he paused , stretching , working the last traces of the drug from his limbs , then crouched , listening again . |
| 17 | To ease working the next row , bring the six cable needles to E position and knit ten rows . |
| 18 | Paid by the job , when he finally knocks off , he has no idea if he will be working the next morning . |