Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] work " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps no player has ever been quite as competitive as Botham , and if his combativeness has led him into trouble off the field it has generally worked in his favour on it — except when he has refused to part with the ball despite not bowling well , or when he has holed out in the deep when a more circumspect approach was required . |
| 2 | It has not inherited this behaviour ; it has either worked it out for itself , or learned it by observing another chimpanzee . |
| 3 | Unlike some of its competitors , Bull says it has yet to work out whether or not Posix compatibility for proprietary systems is anything more than a marketing gimmick , and so it has not yet embarked on the expensive process of adapting the GCOS operating systems to comply with Posix . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ I am delighted it has finally worked out for them after all these years . ’ |
| 5 | On 5 June , Gavin Laird of the Amalgamated Engineering Union rightly said on ’ Channel 4 News ’ : ’ It has never worked in the past ; there is no logic for it ; it does not work in any other country and it certainly will not work in Great Britain . ’ |
| 6 | One can expand the boundaries , and because it is the sentiment of the people that one should expand the boundaries , it has manifestly worked for nearly two centuries in the United Kingdom . |
| 7 | ‘ I have been there before and it has often worked out well for me . |
| 8 | ‘ I have been there before and it has often worked out well for me . |
| 9 | ‘ It has all worked out for the best , yes ? |
| 10 | Erm , it has actually worked , erm , in that it seems that there 's a very fair chance that er , in spite of the very discouraging things that were said by some of the people on my right when I moved this , erm , there is a very good chance now for a reasonable er , settlement in South Africa , which I think should erm , make everyone in this chamber very happy , and it is that , undoubtedly the case that economic pressure had a great deal to do with that . |
| 11 | He thinks the changes would improve the productivity of the office and enable it to handle more work each week . |
| 12 | It did indeed work , thanks to the Sister 's and nurses other care of the little ones . |
| 13 | ‘ The locomotive for our London to Glasgow train was based in Leicester , ’ Mr Gisby says , ‘ so it had to come from Leicester to London before it did any work . |
| 14 | It had also wrought a fundamental shift in power between the PLO and the Arab world , and within the Palestinian community between the PLO and the people of the territories . |
| 15 | But it had better work . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It had better work , ’ he said softly . |
| 17 | It had never worked and it would n't now . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | How well it had all worked out ! |
| 20 | Jezrael walked inside , scarcely believing it had all worked . |
| 21 | All it is it 's plugged in in in the hall and it is just a box a little box about this big and we just er it 's just worked on the different |
| 22 | it was he that choose it , it was he that wanted it and you see it 's just worked out that he did n't use it . |