put in working order
Example Sentences
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As I understand, you telegraphed General Halleck that you cannot subsist your army at Winchester, unless the railroad from Harper's Ferry to that point be put in working order.
From Abraham Lincoln, Volume II by John T. (John Torrey) Morse
In due course it was sent to a cycle repairer in Hampstead to be put in working order.
From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 by Various
The gold mines, which, with two exceptions, have not been worked since the same time, are believed to be scarcely touched, and only await a fostering hand to be put in working order once more.
From The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar by Demetrius Charles Boulger
The trouble was soon remedied, and the brake put in working order.
From The Motor Girls by Margaret Penrose
It must have been put in working order quite recently.
From The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet A Detective Story by Burton Egbert Stevenson
