Sentence examples for work a case from inspiring English sources

"When you work a case long enough, you get to know the person," Agent Furey said later.

They have cut the time it takes to work a case to eight weeks from three or four years with just a slight increase in budget.

On Aug. 2, 2007, the editor of The Oakland Post, Chauncey Bailey, was gunned down while walking to work; a case was brought against a handyman at Your Black Muslim Bakery who was thought to have acted alone.

And in that context Ms. Campion and Mr. Lee's meandering, careless handling of the mystery — beginning with the unexplained notion that Robin, who is on a visit home from her job as a detective in Australia, can be called in to work a case in New Zealand — is beside the point.

Even if you set aside the rosy revisionism of the old-timers, the traditional autonomy that a detective had to work a case has undeniably been supplanted by a multi-tiered management culture of checklists and drop-box options and conferences.

But, judged by the standards of the original "Scarface" or "Bonnie and Clyde" or "The Godfather," or even "Bugsy," this is a stilted, self-conscious piece of work — a case of dark-toned academic classicism.

Knight, 57, said he has never worked a case that has received this much media coverage.

"In the nine years that have taken place in her life since then, she has not worked a case.

We learn that not only has she not worked a case since then, she's not seen Logan since then.

Flash forward again: Marty admits that Rust was working a case that he didn't know about, that he's investigating old missing person's cases.

We learn that not only has she not worked a case since then, she's not seen Logan [Jason Dohring] since then.