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

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1 Most PC software did n't have a Macintosh counterpart and even if it did users had to work the magic of the asynchronous communications link to get data back and forth .
2 Betty was so relieved to see Lydia in spirits again that she did n't care at all that it was Beuno who had wrought the transformation .
3 ‘ About the previous Christmas … we brought our myne unto the Wall , and about Candlemas we had wrought the wall halfe through . ’
4 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 .
5 Again on this very course a while back it was only three people in the group in the week that I was watching and the guy who was running the session had , had worked the equation wrongly on the rating or whatever and the other two , never seen him before in their lives were saying that 's wrong and he started getting really annoyed .
6 They are certainly not small targets to be found with a metal detector and I was amazed that they were there , for they proved that no detector user had worked the area since my last visit .
7 The three men who had worked the lift continued to be employed at Foxton until the outbreak of the war in 1914 .
8 It was Friday at Mission Dolores , when the probation officers came to met the boys on parole and Father Boyle paid the many youngsters whom he had working the church , the school and charity programmes in the parish .
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