Example sentences of "work the same [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I suppose it 's too much to expect a senior Queen 's Counsel to work the same hours as ordinary folk , ’ Bragg said grumpily .
2 Housewives simply do not expect to work the same hours in the home as they would in an office or factory .
3 After her success with Kate Moss , Sarah now hopes to work the same magic with Kate 's brother Nick , who is 16 and still a schoolboy in Croydon .
4 But the features that make Mr President sexy do n't work the same trick when the man behind them is thought to be a vacuum cleaner salesman from Bolton .
5 Now today if you rang me up to do removals , we do n't work the same way .
6 We worked the same routine each day for our practice rounds — some relaxed play on the course and some hard work before and after we went out .
7 We 've , I do n't know if everyone 's worked the same system , but we 're back on the old appointment system .
8 He had worked the same hours , on the same farm for nine years but he was paid as a casual labourer , and so had no right to a pension , to notice pay — not even to the right of appeal .
9 Food colour pens work the same way as felt tips , but are non-toxic .
10 Er fashion and design , well if , from a design point of view erm we all work the same way , no matter who in knitwear , who you work , whether it 's Marks and Spencers or whether it 's Jack Vere or whether it 's John Smedley or erm Finks across the road there .
11 It seems to work in here , because er the carpet industry , if you speak , speak to people in different firms , say they all work the same way , it seems to work on a
12 I left school before my 14th birthday ( which could happen in Scotland ) and started work the same day in the employ of a grocer and wine merchant .
13 They also work the same hours , only to rush off afterwards to do child care , shopping , cooking and cleaning tasks from which men are exempt .
14 After work the same evening , my husband and I walked all over the golf course and were eventually rewarded by spotting the dog in the distance , although we failed to coax her towards us .
15 As a professional I always work the same ground in two separate operations .
16 The test for this comes when someone , or some group , is offered a pay rise ( in real terms ) and the choice either of working the same number of hours and taking home the extra money or of maintaining their real income but reducing the hours worked .
17 The success of Hammer encouraged other companies into working the same seam .
18 This then inevitably means that by the early spring it is worth working the same ground a second time .
19 I have seen many other companies working the same sort of processes , and I have yet to find one which seems to have the final solution .
20 He works the same trick in Pygmalion .
21 The proposed system works the same way as summer E grades , with a Roman numeral ( I-X etc ) encompassing the overall difficulty of the route including seriousness , protection , sustainedness and length , and an Arabic numeral ( 1–10 etc ) to reflect the technical difficulty of the hardest pitch or crux sequence .
22 And , because all this capability was part of the Macintosh operating system it was available to any software developer so almost every package that appears for the system works the same way .
23 But it works the same way as ordinary language .
24 A woman who worked 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. said , " My husband works the same hours .
25 Endesha Ida Mae Holland , the author of this veiled autobiography , is described in the programme as a popular lecturer and ‘ story-teller ’ : she works the same seam as Maya Angelou , Toni Morrison and Alice Walker ( whose spirit she fulsomely invokes , and whose book The Color Purple she implicitly recalls at every turn ) .
26 This provision is to cover the situation where a person works the same number of hours within , say 4 days , instead of 5 .
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