Example sentences of "[verb] all the work " in BNC.
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| 1 | To compare Raskolnikov 's haymarket with Kim 's bazaar is to see that Kipling has done all the work so that you do n't have to go there to know what it 's like at the level of vivid and varied description , whereas Dostoevsky leaves his reader with an impression which hovers between smell and vapour and dream . |
| 2 | Llewellyn sportingly admitted : ‘ I have got to feel sorry for Andy Adams — he 's done all the work . ’ |
| 3 | I was gone for about three hours : scrambling through hedges ; rummaging in undergrowth ; wrestling with tangled nets ; and throwing into a box the indignant ferrets , who after all had done all the work and only wanted to wring the rabbits ' necks . |
| 4 | He 's done all the work at the scene — all anyone can do — and then he has to cool his heels with the rest of us , waiting for God 's gift to forensic pathology to come screaming up with a police escort and break the news to us that what we all thought was a corpse is — surprise , surprise indeed a corpse , and that we can safely move the body . " |
| 5 | Besides , I 'd like you to be there — especially as you 'll have done all the work . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ We 've lined up a nice selection of videos — you must have first choice since you 've done all the work ! ’ |
| 7 | You can just go up for a ride , letting someone else do all the work while you enjoy the sensation , or learn to pilot the thing for yourself . |
| 8 | ‘ No — what I mean is — if he 's sitting at home while you do all the work , why is n't he happy ? |
| 9 | They have to run the beastly place and do all the work . ’ |
| 10 | These organisations are rare , although an example might be a partnership of a few individuals who do all the work of the organisation themselves ( with perhaps a little administrative assistance ) . |
| 11 | On the other , members often say that they do n't feel involved ; that committees do all the work without reference to them . |
| 12 | This is usually because the vision in one of her eyes is less good than the other and the brain has ‘ switched off ’ this eye , letting the better one do all the work . |
| 13 | I do all the work , and sometimes I even do things they do n't tell me to do . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Anyway , why should some of us do all the work ? ’ |
| 15 | THERE are times when you just want to give up , lie in bed or in the garden and let someone else do all the work . |
| 16 | They were used to heavy work as they had to run the crofts & do all the work themselves when their husbands were away on the boats . |
| 17 | Initially the analyst does all the work , leading the user towards a system he thinks is right for the business . |
| 18 | The server does all the work of finding the information , so in theory the user can ask any question and get an answer . |
| 19 | It is a common fallacy that the wind does all the work in a water start by pulling you on to the board . |
| 20 | When the plain clothes Constables , the Detectives , and even uniform Constables can spend their watch in the Station , the Section Sergeant who does all the work , and who is accountable to the Instruction Book , the backbone of the Force , dare not enter the Station during his hours of duty . |
| 21 | And I would n't mind getting my hands on one of those typewriters that does all the work for you . |
| 22 | The Braun Oral-B Plaque Remover does all the work for you . |
| 23 | The appeal of Brand A is that it does all the work for the slimmer . |
| 24 | The putter itself does all the work and that takes a load of pressure off the rest of my game . |