Example sentences of "work [prep] the [adj] side " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole thing was designed to smoke out double agents , to make sure you had n't gone over and started to work for the other side . |
| 2 | When Jos moved round to work on the other side of the gate , he handed Mungo a sheet of sandpaper , telling him to use plenty of ‘ elbow grease ’ . |
| 3 | Then a little genuine humility will help you to work on the negative side and this will get you going on the right track . |
| 4 | Professional investors have put at least $5 billion to work on the short side of the market . |
| 5 | and saying , what do you think cos of all the qualified ones at least she cos she worked on the elderly side . |
| 6 | Wrathful had worked round the downhill side of the thicket until she lost the scent ; now she had come back and was working around the uphill side . |
| 7 | As Richard Holloway , the Bishop of Edinburgh , has observed : ‘ It is a culture that believes in belief … anyone who has worked on the other side of the Atlantic will recognise the syndrome . |
| 8 | An officer who had worked on the social side for twenty years summed it up as " the most brilliant lecture on our social services I 'd ever heard in my life " . |
| 9 | And here you are , a survivor , working for the winning side . ’ |
| 10 | Mrs Shephard told farmers in her native Norfolk : ‘ Farming is a major industry whose importance to maintaining the health of rural life , both for those who work in the country- side and those who enjoy it as an amenity , is all too easily forgotten . |
| 11 | Now , working from the uncovered side of the wall , mark the corners of the proposed windows and drill holes to mark the positions on the plasterboard sheets . |
| 12 | On the Gabcikovo-Nagymaros dam and hydroelectric power station project on the Danube , Hungary had on May 25 renounced the 1977 agreement on environmental grounds [ see pp. 38843 ; 38939 ] , but work on the Slovak side had gone ahead , and the facility was to begin partial operations in early November , according to a CSTK report on Sept. 10 , with construction due for completion by the end of 1992 . |
| 13 | Now then , , being that was working on the other side , took all the trees on the main drive do you see , and he bought them and cleared them . |
| 14 | His business career remains equally obscure , but it is likely that he began working on the rougher side of the tavern trade . |
| 15 | Be very aware on every row , when working on the left-hand side of the machine , that the carriage should completely clear the patterning panel EACH row . |
| 16 | Since they are working on the wrong side of the law anyway , they 're not too worried . |
| 17 | Gregory works on the technical side , liaising with the sound and lighting people and drawing up set lists . |
| 18 | Wrathful had worked round the downhill side of the thicket until she lost the scent ; now she had come back and was working around the uphill side . |