The companies usually demanded long hours of exhausting work for low pay and no benefits.
The immigrants were paid a very low salary and worked long hours of exhausting work.
But though we could shift them all right, it was exhausting work.
But the very weight of it made shoveling exhausting work.
But it was exhausting work, like rowing a boat against the current.
It was exhausting work just trying to make sense of them.
Some people may hate running because it is hard and exhausting work.
It is exhausting work, an economic gamble and a true romance.
The experiment was exhausting work for the two scientists, they later reported.
It was awkward, exhausting work, made even more so by the deadly heat.
And everywhere you look there's evidence of the back-breaking work it's taken to create this landscape.
From the gardeners' perspective, each new garden means back-breaking work.
It is a job that requires long hours of back-breaking work with animals who are prone to flight.
But as they perform the back-breaking work of moving snow by hand, they're running through shovels.
After the back-breaking work they do all day, going back to sleep is enough.
But the Allens say that despite back-breaking work, they can no longer make a decent living.
What was worse, within minutes people would be walking all over her back-breaking work - it did not bear thinking of.
The bushpigs had returned to destroy months of back-breaking work in a single night.
The hole has grown but this is slow, back-breaking work.
"You left me with that back-breaking work," he told Willie.