Example sentences of "[to-vb] it work " in BNC.

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1 It had receded on a faint wave of sound , but it was possible to imagine it working hard against the up-grade of the Withcall tunnel cutting .
2 However , the company has its eye on the estimated 200 000 American children with ‘ normal variant short stature ’ , who produce growth hormone but apparently lack sufficient receptors to put it to work .
3 In addition , the established place of computers has reduced techno-fear among teachers and has probably made subsequent technology innovation more acceptable to the people who will have to put it to work .
4 Staff who had tried to buy out the company to keep it working say they 're devastated .
5 Mr Abalkin rejected this also , saying that the distortions in the economy are too great to allow it to work properly .
6 In order to allow that spiritual dimension to breathe , in order to allow it to work its healing , transformative way , we have no option but to operate in the world as it is , and to operate as gradualists .
7 Maybe it is not fair to call it work .
8 One doctor prefers to call it work related upper limp pain .
9 ‘ And do you really think that if I had taken something of your aunt 's I would be stupid enough to wear it to work ? ’
10 ‘ Bernard had always wanted a Swiss Buser and as we only had to pay £1,500 for it he was very impatient to see it work , like a small boy with a new toy .
11 It is less easy to see it working for low-information products like , say , custard powder — though the popularity of recipes in food ads suggests at least one justification for longer copy even here .
12 Roger said : ‘ Having heard so much about TNT while I was in Australia I am pleased to see it working so successfully and in particular I am glad to see a continuation of product supply into the sales organisation as a direct result of TNT principles . ’
13 To get it to work properly , we have to clear out the old powder , which are our old conditioned thought patterns , and replace them with the right ones .
14 This , Corris calls the ‘ North Sea Gas Option ’ after the massive conversion exercise in the 1970s when UK Gas Board had to replace or convert every domestic gas cooker to get it to work with the new fuel .
15 I managed to get it working , but I 'll have to have some extensive repairs done to it when I get back home . ’
16 You see my brother Joe is wrong , he should have , he 's a workaholic , and they 're doing sixteen hours a day and they 're working , can you imagine , and I mean my youngest brother Brad who 's working with him said er Joe do n't stop , a week , no a fortnight la , a fortnight last Sunday they had to put a not air conditioning yeah it is air conditioning unit in Smith 's in Staines and they had to whatever happens they had to get it working for the next day , it 's got to be in and working and they worked all day , my brother , my eldest brother Derek weld it for nine hours non stop , to the point where Brad our , my younger brother and Joe had
17 When the propeller is on you open and close your throttle to check it works before setting it to the correct position .
18 But it 's important we test the equipment to check it works , before we take it on site .
19 I know much about the human constitution and what it takes to stop it working . ’
20 I thought , He really is going to make it work .
21 Once the opponent has landed fully , the hook will require a lot of force to make it work , and a foot sweep may then be the more appropriate technique to apply .
22 We are determined to make it work — the last thing I want is to be a laughing stock among local farmers if I fail . ’
23 As a chairman , I did n't have to worry about finding a particular part to put in a piece of kit to make it work .
24 What a good investment a greenhouse can be if you are prepared to invest the time necessary to make it work for you .
25 Conservation can not work unless we have the will to make it work .
26 Dennis Hopper was even more determined than Fonda to make it work .
27 ‘ Look , at this very moment , by speaking openly like this , we are both doing the very best we can to make it work .
28 We might plan an outing or something with the whole staff — each one will say where they want to go and how to make it work . ’
29 Came the day , and the film unit — a ponderous line of vehicles , carrying half a ton of exceedingly expensive equipment and all the people required to make it work efficiently — rumbled out of the centre of Leeds .
30 Love You and your partner face new challenges in your relationship — use them as a way of finding out just how deep your feelings are for each other , and how much you are prepared to sacrifice in order to make it work .
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