Example sentences of "to do the [adj] work " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her unnecessary decision to do the dirtiest work in the place struck them as alarming . |
| 2 | The point is , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , that he had spent his life seeking her out , yet left his feet to do the dirty work . |
| 3 | He likes to get other people — usually me , of course — to do the dirty work : make the awkward telephone call , tell the gardener who comes for four hours a week that he has ruined the asparagus bed , speak to Tom 's teacher about his appalling arithmetic . |
| 4 | BRINGING CUNNING PEOPLE IN TO DO THE DIRTY WORK |
| 5 | Got her to do the dirty work for for free ! |
| 6 | Someone had given the impetus to sort the outside external improvements for starters , and that provided the spur to for them to do the internal work . |
| 7 | In ten years ' time , when Sinead has made her mistakes , sung out all her emotional baggage , then she will start to do the real work with her extraordinary power . |
| 8 | Catering for the resident population appears to be include catering for the population that will come into the town in order to do the new work that will be brought to the town by their policies . |
| 9 | It pays to do the first work well , of course , for if there are frequent digging-out excavations you , in effect , sever the burrow systems and then fill them in . |
| 10 | Miss Crawford would probably stand a much better chance of becoming an actress if she stopped talking about it and started to do the necessary work to bring about her ambition . |
| 11 | Then you could decide more promptly to do the necessary work of grieving for what you 've never had , recognising how much you still have , and get on with your life in other useful and enjoyable ways . |
| 12 | It is likely that the Soviet Union will process some of the Iraqi material , but it does not have the technical competence to deal with the irradiated , enriched uranium ; so it is entirely appropriate that France and this country should provide our technical facilities , which are internationally regarded , to do the necessary work . |
| 13 | Dick described his part in the restoration project as ‘ chase and race ’ — ‘ I wish I had the time to do the mechanical work , I like that , but I did the parts sourcing and chasing and telephone calls . |
| 14 | The accountant is required to do the following work relating to controlled trust accounts : |
| 15 | He engaged Jonathan Otley to do the scientific work necessary for his guide books , and John Gough made the botanical notes required . |
| 16 | Sufficient time to do the statistical work so that it is completed accurately and can be properly checked |
| 17 | But workers for these services can not just be recruited from the general population , because they should be trained to do the specialized work with which they are faced . |
| 18 | ‘ Since the Revolution , women have been obliged , by law , to do the same work as men . |
| 19 | several streets all very like one another , and many more streets still more like one another , inhabited by people equally like one another , who all went in and out at the same hours , with the same sound upon the same pavements , to do the same work , and to whom every day was the same as yesterday and tomorrow , and every year the counterpart of the last and the next . |
| 20 | Employment law provides employees with a range of rights including the right not to be unfairly dismissed , the right not to be subject to discrimination on the grounds of race or sex , and the right for women to receive the same pay as men if employed to do the same work or if the work is considered to be of equal value . |
| 21 | It 's trying to do the same work with the smaller amount of blood as it did with the full amount , ten pints perhaps reduced down to seven , got to keep pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , because that little bit of blood has got to get round and do a lot more work now , okay , so the blood 's rushing round and the heart is pushing faster because it 's having to , because it 's not enough of the , not so much pressure there , that 's why it feels weak , weak and fast , okay ? |
| 22 | Dickens likened the piston of the steam engine to " the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness " , but even by 1815 it was only a minority of the working population who had as yet been cast in the mould of his 1845 Coketowners who , " all went in and out at the same hours , with the same sound upon the same pavements , to do the same work , and to whom every day was the same as yesterday and to-morrow " . |
| 23 | The farmer 's wife was the choice of over half but where possible others were included to do the heavy work . |
| 24 | Once a month , a gardener comes in to do the heavy work for me , and I hope he 'll dig the new pond . |
| 25 | I 'm not expecting her to do the heavy work . |
| 26 | These men were brought up to do the clerical work of the household , to give the king advice , and eventually to become bishops and perform the duties of royal servants as well as of episcopal pastors in their bishoprics . |