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• I cannot work a miracle.
• she works for Microsoft;  he works for the president
• I work closely with my Canadian counterparts;  you work with computers;  she works with the homeless people from the suburbs
• he worked his way through the crowd;  the dye worked its way through;  using some tweezers, she worked the bee sting out of her hand
• So the pure, limpid stream, when foul with stains / Of rushing torrents and descending rains, / Works itself clear, and as it runs, refines, / Till by degrees the floating mirror shines.
• He worked the levers.
• the working of beer when the barm is put in
• the mine was worked until the last scrap of ore had been extracted.
• He used pliers to work the wire into shape.
• she works the night clubs;  the salesman works the Midwest;  this artist works mostly in acrylics
• The rock musician worked the crowd of young girls into a frenzy.
• She knows how to work the system.
• I work as a cleaner.
• He is working his servants hard.
• The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about[...]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention. Partly, this is a result of how online advertising has traditionally worked: advertisers pay for clicks, and a click is a click, however it's obtained.
• he pointed at the car and asked, "Does it work"?;  he looked at the bottle of pain pills, wondering if they would work;  my plan didn’t work
• They worked on her to join the group.
• His fingers worked with tension.
• A ship works in a heavy sea.
• confused with working sands and rolling waves
• this dough does not work easily;  the soft metal works well
• So sad it seemed, and its cheek-bones gleamed, and its fingers flicked the shore; / And it lapped and lay in a weary way, and its hands met to implore; / That I gently said: “Poor, restless dead, I would never work you woe; / Though the wrong you rue you can ne’er undo, I forgave you long ago.”
• ‘I wolde hit were so,’ seyde the Kynge, ‘but I may nat stonde, my hede worchys so—’
• There's a lot of guesswork involved.
• Come on, Nerissa; I have work in hand / That you yet know not of.
• In every work that he began[...]he did it with all his heart, and prospered.
• Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.
• He hasn’t come home yet, he’s still at work.
• Holding a brick over your head is hard work.  It takes a lot of work to write a dictionary.
• We know what we must do. Let's go to work.
• Work is done against friction to drag a bag along the ground.
• Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning "vortex", and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.
• We don't have much time. Let's get to work piling up those sandbags.
• The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.
• My work involves a lot of travel.
• We've got some paperwork to do before we can get started.  The piece was decorated with intricate filigree work.
• It is a work of art.
• the poetic works of Alexander Pope
• to leave no rubs or blotches in the work
• The work some praise, / And some the architect.
• “[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic?[...]”
• William the Conqueror fortified many castles, throwing up new ramparts, bastions and all manner of works.
• I work in a national park;  she works in the human resources department;  he mostly works in logging, but sometimes works in carpentry
• He’s working in a bar.
• This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.