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Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] it work " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	If it can not be audited , you 'll never know if it works .
2	We do n't know if it works .
3	It is all grist to the mill of those who like to argue that Japan has succeeded because it works by different rules from those in the West .
4	I think , I think when your reading it , I mean the , the female always gets her man and he 's always perfect and er , I mean real life is just is n't like that , so its nice to see that it works out for someone .
5	It is boring to have to say that ( it actually makes me twitch even as I do ! ) , but it is no good pretending that it works in any other way , because it simply does n't .
6	Every time the Government does a bit and waits to see if it works , by the time it finds out that it has n't done , it needs to do still more .
7	Just to see if it works .
8	They were just poling away and Matt shouted ‘ Hey , fellers , cut ’ but they did n't take any notice and I remember thinking maybe they 're testing the rope to see if it works , and Matt and I turned at just the same moment and saw where the Indians were heading us — straight into a pile of rocks and foaming water — and I knew the rope must have broken or something .
9	Mike Rowbottom went to see if it works .
10	Ambitious young curators have a different axe to grind and it worked out very well because I did n't produce that much .
11	So if the second child writes 1234 you write 8765 and you can see that it works :
12	Birchfield triple jumper Keith Hunter reasoned that it works in a compensatory manner :
13	Do n't forget the same with , with take-aways as well , if the signs are the same you get a plus or you get an add , erm so that 's , I mean I can see this is the bit you 're not too happy with , but we 'll just see if it works .
14	Put him down and I 'll see if it works .
15	Well I can , well I can put it on earlier so we can see if it works .
16	Oh well it worked with Abingdon , let's , let's see if it works with Witney Mickey , thank you very much .
17	But if this works , if I hear something I can use and it works , then we both make money — you now , me later . ’
18	A very special index , for which some practice is needed before it works properly , is the Social Sciences Citation Index .
19	Found that it worked magically .
20	It is a bit mathematical I suppose but it works out really well in the end , ’ explains Gedge .
21	Indeed , the concept of success could scarcely apply since it worked to no clear objectives .
22	It never exactly whistles while it works — if anything , it wheezes in its upper reaches — but its torquey character and outright power endow the Sierra with a fleet turn of foot , particularly in the lower gears .
23	In biology , Richard Owen — who had led the conservative assault on Lamarckism in the 1830s — now accepted evolution , but insisted that it worked by a preordained process of ‘ derivation ’ .
24	I gave it a shot , but I doubt if it worked . ’
25	It allows the user to create their own show and preview the show at any stage to check that it works as expected .
26	Discussing a book on Dostoevsky , he remarks that while the author has much of interest to say about The Idiot ‘ she does not quite persuade one that it comes off , indeed she does not really try , because like many scholars today she is more concerned with showing how the thing works than with judging if it works well . ’
27	The second is to look at what visual systems do , build something that will do the same job , and then determine whether it works in the same way as a real visual system .
28	Do not be misled , however , into thinking that it works like a spreadsheet because it is only a grid for entering figures and can not perform any calculations for you .
29	‘ You do n't care whether it works or not , do you ? ’
30	So far , the British Electric Traction Co. had held all the capital and completely controlled the expenditure and policy of the South Metropolitan undertaking , just as it had when it worked the Corporation system .