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  • One thing led to another and I finally worked up the courage to offer you the job.
  • All your plans worked out.
  • I worked my way through college.
  • As it worked out, I hardly had time.
  • I worked with him for two years before I discovered who he really was.
  • Kissing his chin, she worked her way around to his cheek.
  • His hands worked up her back moving gradually as he massaged every inch of the muscles on either side of her spine.
  • The way it worked out, I had a sitter, mom had help and Tammy had a companion.
  • There's no reason to get all worked up.
  • This arrangement worked very well in the languages, but not nearly so well in the Mathematics.
  • I worked so hard and so brilliantly in tracing down these people.
  • A brunette woman worked to stabilize her, and Sofia froze in place.
  • A coloring book and crayons kept her busy while they worked and talked.
  • A slow smile worked its way across his face and into his eyes.
  • Haven't worked up the nerve to post.
  • Cool energy worked its way into her.
  • Code breakers and linguists were consulted, chemists and biologists patched up their differences and worked together, and scientific groups were formed to share information and theories.
  • You basically worked alone.
  • But hard as they all worked till quite late that night, they could not get everything packed.
  • It must have worked, because his trainees were some of the best officers.
  • "There's enough rock here to build a housing development," she commented as they worked their way across a jumble of flat red rocks.
  • I also have an offer to work at the law office where I worked last summer.
  • Giddon immediately became absorbed in a book, and Sarah worked on a sweater she was crocheting.
  • He carefully worked the ATV down a steep washed out trail that threatened to overturn the vehicle several times.
  • The muscles in Howard's jaws worked with rage.
  • A flush started in his neck and worked upward.
  • His plans hadn't worked out, so now he was bitter because hers did?
  • Every day she worked in a frenzy, trying to keep him out of her mind.
  • The next day Cade worked close to the house - trying to keep an eye on her, no doubt.
  • She gently worked her nightgown out from under him, hoping all the while that he wouldn't wake.
  • Howie, you, Quinn and Martha worked together without us.
  • He waved a thumb at the body being worked on.
  • I managed to calm myself enough to relate what little I knew of what happened to the people with whom we'd both worked so closely.
  • Pierre's lip was completely insubordinate, and it was obvious he'd never worked for Dusty.
  • His cool energy worked through her, calming her.
  • She worked as a guard at Cañon City and then as a cop up in Grand Junction.
  • One of the ladies who worked at the courthouse made an offhand comment about the popular Lucky Pup Mine.
  • Only the driver's side wiper worked so the Deans were relieved of seeing what lay ahead.
  • 'Reward for information leading to Josh, last name unknown, worked around Ouray this past year as a miner, foreman, or manager.
  • It certainly worked with Dickinson Faust.
  • He highlighted some of the teenage antidrug and alcohol programs he'd worked with over the years.
  • But in other cases, variolation worked: The person who survived it did not subsequently get smallpox.
  • But with time, technology worked through all these problems.
  • He worked to apply a means test, pared the rolls back, then died; the rolls swelled again, and his successor again tried to bring them in line, but it was hard.
  • International aid strategies have often worked against each other.
  • Many of the people Borlaug worked with at this time were poor, even starving.
  • The same worked for ever smaller and smaller pea plants.
  • But this politics of war have in fact worked this way repeated, across place and time.
  • These and literally thousands more issues are worked out in treaties and agreements between nations.
  • We lived on the piazza most of the time--there we worked, ate and played.
  • The braille worked well enough in the languages, but when it came to geometry and algebra, difficulties arose.
  • However, the braille worked well enough in the languages; but when it came to Geometry and Algebra, it was different.
  • I had already bought the shanty of James Collins, an Irishman who worked on the Fitchburg Railroad, for boards.
  • Early in the morning I worked barefooted, dabbling like a plastic artist in the dewy and crumbling sand, but later in the day the sun blistered my feet.
  • But the notes of the flute came home to his ears out of a different sphere from that he worked in, and suggested work for certain faculties which slumbered in him.
  • There we worked, revising mythology, rounding a fable here and there, and building castles in the air for which earth offered no worthy foundation.
  • You worked like wegular bwicks and it's nasty work!
  • He worked well whatever the import of his work.
  • Her whole house was scrubbed and cleaned on Saturdays; neither she nor the servants worked, and they all wore holiday dress and went to church.
  • "Yes, they worked all day and didn't play!" remarked the tall, round- faced peasant gravely, pointing with a significant wink at the dictionaries that were on the top.
  • In front, at a weary gallop and using his leather whip, rode an officer, disheveled and drenched, whose trousers had worked up to above his knees.
  • The man who worked most with his hands could not think so much about what he was doing, or reflect on or command what would result from the common activity; while the man who commanded more would evidently work less with his hands on account of his greater verbal activity.
  • Finally she worked up the courage and turned on the computer.
  • She had been lying around all day catching up on her sleep while Carmen worked on her bedroom.
  • And yet, she had worked so hard to get where she was.
  • She picked up the lines and worked her wagon behind the rest.
  • Yeah, well she probably never took a whip to your father, but there's always a first time, Anyway, I guess she was pretty worked up.
  • His jaw muscles worked as he spun on one heel and marched to the outside door, slamming it as he left.
  • You've worked all day long.
  • It worked, sort of.
  • Quinn worked on increasing the precision of time and location but it remained about the same; anything longer than a couple of days was a problem.
  • His mouth worked without producing a sound, and his eyes watered.
  • The spanking worked on you, didn't it?
  • That's worked fine by me.
  • "Maybe if you'd talked to him you might have worked things out," Dean offered, more to prompt attention than to pursue a subject he cared nothing about.
  • He worked many years as a blacksmith and studied books whenever he had a spare moment.
  • He took something like an oarlock from his pocket and fastened it to the stern of the boat; then with a paddle which worked in this oarlock one of the boys could guide the boat while the other turned the paddle wheels.
  • You need to have a basic understanding of how things work in biology.
  • You still worked almost exclusively with people in your lab or at least in your city.
  • He worked quietly for a few minutes and then finally turned his attention to Carmen.
  • She worked tirelessly all night to clean the blood off of Jule.
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