work over
Example Sentences
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As Tolkien continued to revise his work over the course of decades, his textual archive, complete with inconsistencies, came to resemble a mythological corpus that had survived for centuries.
A dual Ukrainian-Russian citizen, he had worked over recent years in the Russian industrial city of Chelyabinsk, about 900 miles east of Moscow.
“When I tell my family, ‘Hey, I’ve got to work over the weekend,’ they tell their friends I’m in the middle of busy tax season,” he says.
The memory of getting worked over by the Packers in Week 1 hasn’t left the Lions.
From Los Angeles Times
Most impressive was the way England worked over Steve Smith, the stand-in Australia captain and the most prolific Ashes batter since Don Bradman.
From BBC
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