Example sentences of "at work [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah cos a girl at work took it . |
| 2 | They took her to the sort of restaurants she could mention without shame next day when her colleagues at work asked ‘ Where did he take you ? ’ |
| 3 | SunSoft Inc is reportedly hard at work getting the object-oriented Distributed Objects Everywhere environment into product shape . |
| 4 | Most importantly , it was forged out of the overlap between work-place and village , the fact that , as an occupational community , relationships established at work spilled over into leisure hours , while the accepted code of behaviour which was followed in the village also applied to the situation at work . |
| 5 | I do hope that each and everyone has been hard at work encouraging your class members to renew their membership and getting new class members to join the Society . |
| 6 | The labour force rose from 45 million in 1940 to 60 million in 1944 , and even the addition of many women and young people to the numbers at work caused few problems . |
| 7 | The London Daily Telegraph of 25 August 1887 , under the heading " A Sailors ' Association " chose to deal at length with the birth of the union , praising its objects , but predicting its early demise : " The North Country " , the article read , " was always the nursery of the famous and best seamen and it is here that we find Jack hard at work originating a fine scheme . |
| 8 | Gangs of men were at work trying to rescue the contents of the burning shacks , going from one to another , putting out the fires ; or so I thought till with a shock it came to me that these were no rescuers but incendiaries , that the battle I saw them waging was not with the flames but with the rain . |
| 9 | For there , hard at work dubbing the soundtrack on to a new series of Minder at Anvil Studios , was the Lotus Elan-hero-turned-De Lorean cohort I 'd been longing to unmask . |
| 10 | Mark Flanagan , of Ash , said companies were also concerned that passive smoking will fall within the Health and Safety at Work Act now it is a proven health risk . |
| 11 | INJURIES at work led to 750,000 days off in one year , a report revealed yesterday . |
| 12 | Holroyd Smith died at the age of 84 in North Wales , still at work inventing devices to assist in his favourite hobby of angling ! |
| 13 | BA 's biggest competition so far seems to come from the Germans , who are already at work refurbishing Moscow 's existing international airport , Sheremtyero . |
| 14 | Right th the erm I accept that looking at work carried out , which is what we 've got in a number of instances , like |
| 15 | The strategy will also require measures to counter the six forces currently at work locking this underclass firmly into place , and which are considered in this section . |
| 16 | The girls at work keep saying are you getting as much attention as the chicks . |
| 17 | Edouard was sent back home , they could n't have him at work looking like that . ’ |
| 18 | Presumably , there are psychological needs at work influencing a young person to look for suitable father figures of which there are many in sport . |
| 19 | I am not trying to suggest that there is some conspiracy at work to centralise the importance of Shakespeare when it should be more widely shared or go to some other figure . |
| 20 | They are the weaknesses which can be exploited to keep men at work producing the goods which this society needs , and to keep them in subjection . |
| 21 | Most people feel there must be other principles at work to explain high level functions , and the plasticity of neurons is an obvious place to look . |
| 22 | Do not male civil servants now sometimes turn up at work wearing ponytails , earrings , jeans or , in the summer , even Lycra shorts ? |
| 23 | 10.4 If , after returning to work , an employee who has been the victim of an incident of violence at work requests a transfer to other duties , such a request will be treated sympathetically . |
| 24 | They are the product of forces that are constantly at work to effect an orderly distribution of populations and functions within the urban complex . |
| 25 | Researchers , especially at the Gerontological Research Center in Bedford , Massachusetts , are at work exploring another property of centrophenoxine that is causing excitement generally among gerontologists . |
| 26 | On the other hand , when the amount produced is such that the demand price is less than the supply price , sellers receive less than is sufficient to make it worth their while to bring goods to market on that scale ; so that those who were just on the margin of doubt as to whether to go on producing are decided not to do so , and there is an active force at work tending to diminish the amount brought forward for sale . |
| 27 | Subject to any medical recommendations , inmates were to be kept at work according to their capacity and should not receive any remuneration for their labour . |
| 28 | There must therefore be another process at work affecting performance , a process which is engaged for certain tasks but not for others . |
| 29 | This change has , however , been accompanied by a rise in home ownership and an explosion in house prices , which has been the second force at work affecting the distribution of wealth . |
| 30 | Well I thought today at work thought there 's no way he 's gon na last out . |