Example sentences of "to work out [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He had gone clean and sober with a fury , he swore , up at five-thirty every morning to work out at the Y , at his word processor to write by six-thirty , stopping only to watch CNN during lunch ‘ to connect with the world ’ .
2 Well we went into the Rifle Brigade Barracks at Winchester and used to work out at a big house outside of Winchester so we had to march out there and then at the time of Dunkirk , they were looking for places to put all the soldiers that they 'd brought and er , we were cleared out of Barnet , er out of Winchester Barracks and posted up to Nottingham and we worked in the factory , which was taken over by the Army then and erm , and then whilst there , I suppose that was about nineteen what , about nineteen fo coming up to nineteen forty two , they decided to have a recheck or rethink on medicals , so we were all subject to another medical and they put me back to A one and says , right we 're getting rid of all A one personnel out of the Pay Corp , you have a choice Royal Army Ordnance Corp or the Royal Artillery .
3 As a young schoolgirl I had always wanted to do something different and to work out of doors , but as I progressed along the educational road these objectives had somehow receded to be overtaken by the more accepted priorities of passing exams and going to university .
4 About 50 employees of the five-year-old company will continue to work out of their Michigan offices .
5 Although rather overshadowed by the heroin ‘ problem ’ which soon emerged , this committee was able to continue its focus on young solvent users and obtained funding for a full-time counsellor to work out of a Council of Voluntary Service office .
6 Once we 'd found this little gem — and other setup options — we managed to coax a wonderfully fast high resolution screen upon which to work out of the system .
7 Recently he persuaded Lynda to work out with him at their Surrey home , which they share with two Irish wolfhounds .
8 Bearing all this in mind , it may be helpful to those who are still open to suggestions to try to work out with them some very simple menus for a seven-day period ; meals which will suit their pocket , entail little expenditure of energy , but at the same time cover all their basic dietary requirements , and which can be made tasty and interesting by the addition of some of the sauces , seasonings , and flavourings will which you can supply them .
9 The hormone count was high at the Hereford Leisure Centre as a group of local women prepared to work out with the Chippendales .
10 I 'll leave you to work out on your own .
11 The meaning is not explained but is left for the listeners to work out for themselves .
12 Such a map will enable the reader to work out for himself how to get from one location to another within the town .
13 This first encounter between Marco and the boy known as the Rat is not friendly — at least not until the two lads , each with his own particular air of authority , have confirmed their direct loyalty to the disturbed country and have begun to work out for the ‘ Club ’ a youthful but intelligent strategy for revolution .
14 The government thereby gave up the attempt to impose a solution and admitted that the people of Northern Ireland must be given an opportunity to work out for themselves how they should be governed .
15 We then have to work out for each molecule which of the Cartesian axes corresponds with which inertial axis , as this depends on the details of the mass-distribution .
16 Whatever was behind the insidious threats she had received was something she had to work out for herself .
17 Leith had grown fond of both of them , and , feeling sorry for them , she knew at the same time that this was something they would have to work out for themselves .
18 I think this is something which everybody has to work out for themselves .
19 The Algiers agreement failed to work out to the satisfaction of either side .
20 The whole genotype controlling size in an individual would then be impossibly difficult to work out by Mendelian breeding experiments .
21 It 's something that I 've got to work out by myself . ’
22 Lowland Scots and Ulster Scots dialects , for example , have had backing of [ a ] , and we have to work out from residues that in some ancestral forms of these , there may also have been front-raising ( Lass , 1976 ; J. Milroy , 1981 ; and see chapter 4.6 and 4.7 , above , and section 5.7 , below ) .
23 We were almost into November now and I did n't need to be an expert navigator to work out from the charts , and the Admiralty Pilot lying open on the chart table , that to be into the south of the Weddell Sea in time to take maximum advantage of the summer loosening of the pack we would need to be away not later than end-November .
24 I mean to have to work out from first principles erm four plus three is seven every time , you may be able to do that with great understanding , but there 's an awful waste of time if you 've got to understand it each time .
25 If you can , you should try to work out in advance what the patient needs for his practical comfort ; how you are going to arrange his living quarters and his access to the bathroom and toilet ; and how he is going to occupy his time .
26 Or perhaps you started to work out in the gym round the corner from the office .
27 ‘ I 'm tryin' to work out in my mind what we could do in this district if a general rebellion should break out . ’
28 Such opportunities are obviously present in Kenya and Zambia though they do not appear always to work out in practice , one reason in Kenya being that centre personnel are continually called on to perform routine professional jobs such as practical examinations for final year college students .
29 ‘ When the manager wanted me to work out in the reserves I accepted it .
30 Since fires often start at night , and most homes only have one flight of stairs , which may well be unusable , it pays to work out in advance possible escape routes from upstairs windows — ideally one leading on to a flat roof , otherwise one with a flowerbed or grass below , rather than a hard surface .
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