Sentence examples for working him over from inspiring English sources

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But now that Obama's doing it, they're working him over".

He clearly feels there's a relatively cheap top-order wicket to be had and is working him over with all his variations.

I can hardly imagine, after seeing his extraordinarily imaginative first feature, the frustrations and involuted, ingrown, or just plain stifled inventions that have been working him over from within for the past half century.

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I think they worked him over with one of those iron tire chains".

Franklin was older and bigger, and he always won — immobilized Graham, worked him over with a torturer's precision.

The guards, assuming that he has tried to commit suicide, a prison offense, then work him over with a stun baton.

"If I had a chance to pass him and to get to his bumper and work him over, I would have," he said.

We worked him over, I gave him the antidote to the drug, and he was up and running like nothing had ever happened.

They were told to "work him over", before being locked in a room with him.

"We'd work him over a little bit about it".

But before he does, he works him over a little.

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