Example sentences of "work [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barker grew very quickly , and had to work off a tremendous amount of energy every day , and since Danny was much too young to take him out for walks , this duty fell upon Connor . |
| 2 | I got to work up a good sweat . |
| 3 | Remoteness is still the keynote of this region , but a Charlton reiving party would be hard put to it these days to work up a good gallop along the upper reaches of the North Tyne River . |
| 4 | But in a cold , late spring I find it difficult if not impossible to work up a good tilth in time for mangolds . |
| 5 | In a cold , late spring it may prove difficult to graze off the rye in time to work up a good tilth for mangolds . |
| 6 | The stockings on Christmas morning are always full of useful things ( Clarissa 's includes Pond 's Cold Cream and tights ) , then after church the family goes for a long walk to work up a hearty appetite for dinner . |
| 7 | In wet areas , weeds and turf re-root and grow quickly and it is not easy to work up a clean tilth unless they are well buried and allowed to rot . |
| 8 | But no sound outside and he tried again : now with both of his hands , one to steady up the other , to work back the locking door-holt . |
| 9 | Whether it is possible ( or appropriate ) to work out a comprehensive set of criteria for processes such as generalization is an issue which will not be settled until there is a good deal more experience with process criteria in the classroom . |
| 10 | They might prefer to work out a general letter and simply insert the details such as where they saw the job advertised and the name given to the vacancy advertised . |
| 11 | There is , then , yet a third way of being systematic with regard to project work , and that is for a school to work out a definite policy on how it should be approached and which particular skills should be stressed at which levels . |
| 12 | In Part Two of the book we will help you to work out a ten-week programme for your to follow . |
| 13 | There are now signs that this failure to work out a coherent relationship between the two logics of approach will have to be addressed and in some cases this task has already been started . |
| 14 | Borough council treasurer Bob Patterson told members that the bid will cost an initial £75,000 for document preparation and a further £200,000 will be required to work out a five-year plan , involving several full time officers . |
| 15 | to work out a new Defence policy in the light of present strategic needs which would secure substantial reduction in expenditure and manpower ; at the same time to prepare a plan for reshaping and reorganising the armed forces . |
| 16 | New buildings going up above broad boulevards ; spacious parks and rose-filled gardens , under a sky dramatic with cloud patterns ; the sense of a vigorous and tough-minded white community , with some at least eager to work out a new society along with the blacks . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've got to work out a new course . ’ |
| 18 | This was the sixth show , so I had six days to work out a new act . |
| 19 | The assumption is that Rizzo 's appointment to the finance post is a short-term measure and that his key function will be to work out a new pricing strategy , which means that anything we have heard on pricing on the new ES/9000s and AS/400s due next month will be overtaken by events . |
| 20 | For example , if you were able to work out a new method of organizing stock shelves so that components were more quickly available to people on the factory floor this would show perfectly that you ‘ are able to show initiative ’ . |
| 21 | Negotiations are under way to work out a new method of payment . |
| 22 | To see this is to recognize the stylistic value of Golding 's choice : that his version of the event is of movements perceived in space and time , from which the reader has to work out a normal understanding of what is happening . |
| 23 | And you can do it by taking one from t' other but more useful er , I would suggest , is to work out a planned performance or what I 've called a planned performance , er , this 'll be in your , in your notes as well , er which equals planned expenditure over planned er , income or allowance . |
| 24 | An analysis of aggressive episodes could help you to work out a practical campaign to deal with a persistent problem over discipline . |
| 25 | Use the five steps and chart below to work out a reasonable estimate of the cost of rebuilding your home . |
| 26 | On the other hand we do quite frequently mutter to ourselves as we try to deduce something logically — or even if we do n't make a sound we often use words in our head when trying to work out a complex problem . |
| 27 | The Economy Ministers of Argentina , Brazil , Paraguay and Uruguay met on July 20 in the Uruguayan capital , Montevideo , and agreed to work out a joint set of rules to combat the dumping and sale of subsidised goods by non-members of their prospective common market agreed under the Mercosur Treaty of March 1991 [ see p. 38096 ] . |
| 28 | As white lesbians , because of our racism , we had not been able to work out a joint analysis of heterosexism with Black lesbian workers , because we had no knowledge of the implications and ramifications of heterosexism in their lives . |
| 29 | Plateless bolt-on necks are the order of the day , and the Koreans have had to work out a strange method of extending the neck an extra step past the end of the fingerboard to try to keep the Rickenbacker look ( you might be able to spot this feature on the black one , between the neck and middle pickups ) . |
| 30 | Graham Sharpe organiser says there is nowhere else in the world where two legs can race against four and pick up fourteen thousand pounds in prize money if they win … he explains that the horse has been beaten once by a mountain bike three years ago but they 've never been able to work out a winning formula |