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

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1 ‘ 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 .
2 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 .
3 We are determined to make it work — the last thing I want is to be a laughing stock among local farmers if I fail . ’
4 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 .
5 What a good investment a greenhouse can be if you are prepared to invest the time necessary to make it work for you .
6 Conservation can not work unless we have the will to make it work .
7 Dennis Hopper was even more determined than Fonda to make it work .
8 ‘ Look , at this very moment , by speaking openly like this , we are both doing the very best we can to make it work .
9 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 . ’
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 An l.e.d. requires 2V approximately between its ends to make it work and the output from the stereo would hardly achieve this or might only do so intermittently with loud sounds .
13 The two parties manage this in many hung councils , but it will be more difficult to make it work with cabinet government and in the cockpit of the Westminster parliament .
14 You also need to be inventive and prepared to look to untried and untested ways to earn money or to make it work for you .
15 Would each have the patience to continue the play , the will to make it work for them ?
16 But it is still only early days for the new arrangement , and both Diana and Charles are determined to make it work .
17 There was a time when I used to try to make it work by lying still beside him beforehand , and thinking of someone else .
18 And it just happens that Digital is the only company to make it work .
19 It just happens that Digital is the only company to make it work .
20 The scene in Belfast is growing as more people start realising that you have to put some effort in to make it work .
21 I believe Sarah and Andrew 's marriage was undone by a lack of character and lack of willingness by them both to make it work .
22 But to tame an animal as awe-inspiring as a wild elephant , to make it work in the forests and to carry man into battle !
23 It was being said that when A90 came on song there would n't be enough people to work it and there would n't be enough plutonium to make it work .
24 To make it work means pulling the SIB itself out of direct regulation and tightening its leash on the SROs .
25 Organizing prisoner labour is , in fact , a very demanding job and one reason for the decline in its use was the effort it required of staff , including high level staff , to make it work properly .
26 Make sure that the advertised price includes all the bits you need to make it work .
27 That is a valid view , but we believe that the internal market is likely to exist for the foreseeable future and that we should try to make it work as well as possible .
28 You need only contrast it with cricket , a complex game over- burdened by social attitudes and codes , and dependent upon specific items of equipment to make it work , to understand how accessible football must have seemed .
29 But unless the staff concerned are enthusiastic about the project , fully understand it , and are thus prepared to give the time and energy to make it work team teaching will be doomed to failure .
30 ‘ We have to make it work . ’
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