Example sentences of "work both [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Yet he can work both sides of the street . |
2 | This does work both ways . |
3 | The deal clearly does not work both ways as we learned from the Squidgy tape ( a copy of which was handed to me in that very restaurant some weeks before its contents were published ) . |
4 | If you forget this needle set up and have the needles starting and finishing on a red mark ( or on a blank at both ends ) , the same set of needles will work both ways , the others wo n't have a turn and after three rows , you are all jammed up ! |
5 | ‘ But it must work both ways . ’ |
6 | And then it 'll work both ways . |
7 | So tradition could work both ways . |
8 | However , as Jack Bicknell , the Barcelona Dragons coach recalled , lack of knowledge can work both ways . |
9 | He would join in battle or in love so closely with a human that a link was established that worked both ways . |
10 | If there was a certain element of the Prince and the Pauper in all this , it worked both ways . |
11 | Only it worked both ways . |
12 | It worked both ways , protecting us and protecting the Legion . |
13 | But that worked both ways . |
14 | It stood to reason , Wendy thought , that the mother-baby connection worked both ways . |
15 | The substitution worked both ways as Surgeon drove in a low cross for Canning to crash home a spectacular equaliser in the 64th minute . |
16 | Mark you , it might have worked both ways . |
17 | That works both ways that , do n't it David ? |
18 | if you ev if she ever says to you she has n't seen you since whatever it was , you say Carole it works both ways , I have n't seen you either . |
19 | What began as the trial of the century after the most expensive manhunt in US history , fizzled out in what prosecutors termed a simple drug conspiracy with the leading player working both sides of the street . |
20 | ‘ His reputation for saying different things to different people , for working both sides of the street , is a classic politicians method . |
21 | It was only a one-sided lock , which is completely and totally different to an ordinary lock er working both sides , you see what I mean and er I er I 'd got to er make a key , number thirty-nine just like that , see but I had it and I could find out what thirty-nine was and I could make them one and send it and knowing it would fit see and er when they had different people working there , you know staff , things like that , not a lot of orders but er somebody else come . |
22 | In which case , if the informant happened to be working both sides of the fence , the connection might prove embarrassing for Asmar . |
23 | As Hurley obviously knew nothing about it , it began to look as if Ibrahim was working both sides of the street . |
24 | With El-Jorr coming off the wall from working both sides of the street , it was only a matter of time before the whole operation came unglued . |
25 | As she flicked over memories of the day — embracing in the cold silken water , under that mysterious layer of white mist which cut off the sky above yet gave clear vision to the other side , a quarter of a mile away — the sense of wicked escape , as they laughed together in the empty lunch-time pub … she decided that she would tell her mother she 'd been working both Sundays . |
26 | actually work both ways . |