Example sentences of "had [adv] work " in BNC.
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| 1 | This had a solid crust generally capable only of bearing the weight of a man , but the LRDG had successfully worked out a route for vehicles . |
| 2 | But the policemen sent to see that shops obeyed the rule had little work to do : there was no money to push up prices . |
| 3 | He had constantly worked against Balfour , criticizing him freely in letters to colleagues and using his party positions as independent bases against the leader . |
| 4 | How well it had all worked out ! |
| 5 | Jezrael walked inside , scarcely believing it had all worked . |
| 6 | At the time Rachel herself had still been doing her training but they had all worked at the same hospital — David as a senior house officer and Jennifer as a staff nurse on Orthopaedics . |
| 7 | Ron Letts , who was 50 , and had only worked as a security guard for two years , was run down outside a wharehouse near Milton Keynes . |
| 8 | Ron Letts , who was 50 , and had only worked as a security guard for two years , was run down outside a wharehouse near Milton Keynes . |
| 9 | He pointed out that during previous planning permissions for Sunday working the plant had only worked on two Sundays in three years . |
| 10 | What had happened was that Birkenhead , Austen Chamberlain , Worthington Evans , Derby and Joynson Hicks had , together or separately ( and , according to Bridgeman , backed by Beaverbrook and Rothermere ) succeeded in persuading Balfour that Baldwin intended to resign ; that he should , if asked by the King , advise him to choose not MacDonald nor Asquith , but another Conservative- Derby or Austen Chamberlain , because he held Baldwin personally to blame rather than his party ; further , they had so worked on Stamfordham , that if Baldwin had gone to resign at once , the advice tendered to the King by his private secretary would have been the same . |
| 11 | Mike [ Foot ] said wryly that if , as Harold Lever said , we had only a 50 per cent chance of avoiding catastrophe , we had better work out a contingency plan in case that chance did not come off . |
| 12 | ‘ All this had better work , ’ said Masklin soberly . |
| 13 | But it had better work . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ It had better work , ’ he said softly . |
| 15 | I 'm losing power on the straights , and the three of you had better work at it because I 've only got one more chance ! ’ |
| 16 | But 90 per cent of them could be prevented actually if we had better working and environmental conditions or were n't so stressed and needed to smoke and drink to kill the pain of daily life . |
| 17 | There was rather a lot of it , and he had enough work already , dealing with a mass transfer of pilots and ground staff . |
| 18 | She had enough work for several more days and then after that , she would need to tramp around the streets seeking new customers . |
| 19 | ‘ Travis had enough work to last three weeks but , on account of you , he must have worked like the devil . |
| 20 | His idea , she realised , was that if he saw to it that she had enough work to keep her occupied both at work and at home , there would be little time left over , if she wanted to keep on top of her job , for any social life with Travis . |
| 21 | ‘ That was different , ’ he told her grandly , and resumed , ‘ While ensuring that my secretary had enough work to keep him fully occupied for the whole of that weekend , and not really expecting you would have any need to contact him , I instructed Lubor Ondrus to give you any assistance you might require should a problem arise . ’ |
| 22 | The clocks are very expensive — some costing more than ten thousand pounds , but even in the depths of a recession the firm thought it had enough work to keep it ticking over . |
| 23 | And running under a certain island which is called Clauda , we had much work to come by the boat : which when they had taken up , they used helps , undergirding the ship ; and , fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands , struck sail , and so were driven . ’ |
| 24 | The febrile atmosphere of pre-disaster London had already wrought a gear-change in the night scene , the numbers of men away at training barracks having produced a seemingly equal and opposite number of women on the spree . |
| 25 | That was just what she was afraid of , she thought suddenly ; he had already wrought too many changes , not just in her life but — but … |
| 26 | Jenny , as I had already worked out , was a woman of some means and she clearly was n't bothered by the fact she was having to subsidize me . |
| 27 | Modigliani arrived with a box of paints and a canvas he had already worked on . |
| 28 | Mary , who of course knew exactly what would have to be paid , had already worked out her and Reggie 's shares . |
| 29 | ‘ The saboteur had already worked out an escape route . ’ |
| 30 | Well done Kieran he had already worked his out good boy . |