Example sentences of "had work [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barker grew very quickly , and had to work off a tremendous amount of energy every day , and since Danny was much too young to take him out for walks , this duty fell upon Connor . |
| 2 | We had to work out a short monologue in the voice of a character , and then afterwards we sat around and were asked who would volunteer to stand up and read their piece . |
| 3 | It played on his mind for a time and eventually he had to work out a kind of therapy to get her out of his brain . |
| 4 | ‘ Similarly , I did n't want any obvious arms on it so I had to work out a system of manipulators — things that did things , like a grip mechanism or a gun . |
| 5 | Ted Ray , one of the judges , reminded me that I now had to work out an act for ‘ The All Winners Show ’ , which happened every seventh week , a contest between the six previous show winners . |
| 6 | He said he still had to work out an acceptable solution to the dispute created by Israel 's deportation of 415 Palestinians from the occupied territories to an icy no man 's land in south Lebanon , where 396 of them remain . |
| 7 | Now they had to work out the 24th number . |
| 8 | Usually the two pilots who are on night duty sleep in the ambulance but the driver and medical orderly who also sleep in it had worked up a terrific ‘ fug ’ — ‘ Imshi ’ Mason and I felt we could not cope with the smell of unwashed feet , etc. , so we dragged the two stretchers out . ’ |
| 9 | Though I had worked out every detail for me and the wheelbarrow , I had not given much thought to the Land Rover . |
| 10 | General Thurman still had to receive a final green light from the president once he had worked out a plan . |
| 11 | He had worked out a basic form for this and photocopied it , leaving blanks to type in the appropriate names . |
| 12 | At the Penta the porters had worked out a neat scam with the airline crews who regularly booked into the hotel . |
| 13 | They had worked out a rota to stand guard on their remaining property , and also to protect their terrified daughters . |
| 14 | They had worked out a system . |
| 15 | Chantler noted , however , in 1952 , that ‘ the current investment review has been even more fantastic than its predecessors if that were possible ’ , and it was not until 1953 that the Treasury had worked out a new system of investment control . |
| 16 | I had worked out a peace formula that I thought might be acceptable , but when I showed it to Wilson he scoffed at it as being altogether too legalistic and proceeded to provide me with a formula of his own . |
| 17 | Over the last few years we had worked out a system of radio communication and coded grid references for use in joint exercises and actual operations against smuggling . |
| 18 | God had worked out a way which showed the futility of human manoeuvring . |
| 19 | Swansea had n't won on Llanelli 's ground for five years but shrewd Ruddock had worked out a week earlier just how he would bring about the upset . |
| 20 | He and Stefan had worked out a performance programme so that Ingrid would n't have to sing two big roles on consecutive nights . |
| 21 | But nearby there was a very large adult macaque who had worked out an even better solution . |
| 22 | Once the French had worked out the tactic , it gave them a chance to run the ball back at us . |
| 23 | Stone felt a moment 's irritation , but with luck , and following the roundabout route that they had worked out the evening before , Chrissie should make any tail difficult to pick up on her . |
| 24 | Progress was slow , but by the mid-eighteenth century success had been achieved in both methods of calculating longitude : the Greenwich astronomers had worked out the tables for the movements of the moon and an English watchmaker , John Harrison , had made a chronometer that kept such perfect time that it could meet the requirements of any sailor . |
| 25 | It was only after they had worked out the correct tautomeric form of each base and found that adenine is exactly the right shape to pair with thymine ( and guanine with cytosine ) that they thought of Erwin Chargaff 's discovery that DNA always contained equimolar amounts of bases in each of these pairs . |