Example sentences of "[be] work [adv] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tie my string muzzles to those ferrets that are to be worked loose down the burrows and whose main function is to bolt the rabbits from underground . |
| 2 | And they 'd still be working well on after s What we call tea time . |
| 3 | During that period the bees would be working busily up and down in the fermenting liquid and at the end of the two weeks it was ready for straining and bottling . |
| 4 | Sometimes I 'm working away up here in my studio — the name 's a bit too grand for the room , which is only 12 by 12 , but even so — and there 's music on the radio and I 'm sort of on automatic pilot . |
| 5 | Both these directors fared much better than the other I have mentioned insomuch as they were working right up until their death . |
| 6 | Well I think some interesting work has been done in Israel erm , a woman called Dr. Ophraelin erm and she runs a stress prevention centre where she 's working right out in the community , which is something , you know , I particularly am interested in , erm empowering people , empowering parents , helping them to recognize their skills , erm just giving them a sense of their own self worth . |
| 7 | An 18-cm ( 6-in ) ruler is not only used for its measuring abilities when framing designs , but also if you are working directly on to a piece of material rather than card , it is easy to slip the ruler under the fabric when you sign your picture . |
| 8 | It also had one of the longest lives as it was working right up to the late 1940s . |
| 9 | Frankie , at 64 , was working right up until he was taken ill . |
| 10 | I was working right up to then . |
| 11 | It was working perfectly back in Manchester , when you had it going up and down at the traffic lights to impress those schoolgirls . ’ |
| 12 | He had a pile on his desk which he was working systematically through ; reports from agents , neatly docketed and summarized by Nikos , offensive memoranda from the Finance Department , irrelevant offerings from Personnel and aggrieved submissions from the Khedive , the Kadi , the Mufti and all the others who considered that the Mamur Zapt was exceeding his powers . |