1 If ifs and ands were pots and pans there'd be no work for tinkers. 

2 Congress has been tinkering with the legislation.

3 He tinkered with my old clock.

4 He spends every weekend tinkering with his car.

5 Stop tinkering with that clock and take it to the repair shop.

6 Instead of the Government admitting its error, it just tinkered with the problem.

7 I had a tinker at your radio, but I can't mend it.

8 My uncle tinkered about in the kitchen.

9 He was tinkering away at the broken machine.

10 Dad was always tinkering around with engines.

11 He's in the garage tinkering with his bike.

12 No amount of tinkering is going to improve matters.

13 He's outside tinkering around with his bike.

14 He was tinkering at the television set.

15 I wish the government would stop tinkering with the health service.

16 It is not enough to tinker at the edges; our objective must be to reconstruct the entire system.

17 The government is merely tinkering at the edges of a much wider problem.

18 The password will prevent others from tinkering with your data.

19 She spent the afernoon tinkering about in the garden shed.

20 Give my husband an old motorbike to tinker with and he's as happy as the day is long.

21 A meticulous tinkerer with a balding pate and a white-frosted red beard, he is as stern as a preacher.

22 He says Ryan has been a tinkerer since childhood, endlessly curious about the way things work.

23 But history sometimes does not wait for the tinkerer.

24 If you're not a computer tinkerer, and you're not willing to do research and digging, it may not be for you.

25 He is an incorrigible tinkerer who holds four elevator patents.

26 A passionate tinkerer, Paul created one of the first solid-body electric guitars in 1941, but it took nearly 10 years before he, working with Gibson Guitar Corp., perfected it.

27 "If evolution works like a tinkerer, evolution with mitochondria works like a corps of engineers," said Dr Martin.

28 Land Mine: This ability is now based on player Rank, and damage is based on Tinkerer level.

29 This means that you need to be much more of a hardware tinkerer if you want to extend the Create.

30 Another one of the great things about Android (if you're a geek or a tinkerer) is that you have lower-level access to the system itself.

31 Evolution is a tinkerer, and its products are not necessarily neat or elegant.

32 He was a tinkerer, inventor, patent holder, and had worked for the biggest engineering firm of all time, NASA.

33 The software base for the robotics industry is siloed at this point, with every company and garage tinkerer creating operating systems from scratch.

34 One tinkerer has Pachube's computers control the fan in his office, guided by temperature readings uploaded from a thermometer on his desk.