Example sentences of "he [vb past] work " in BNC.
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| 1 | He avoided work as a rule , but had a quickness of wit that put his acquaintances in mind of a bright rodent . |
| 2 | During his three years at University College , London , he got work each Christmas with the post office in his home town of Woking : ‘ When I was coming to the end of my university period I sat a civil service examination with possible jobs at the end which included income tax , the secret service and the post office which involved travelling as a management trainee . |
| 3 | The mixed media trio did not prove successful but during that period of David 's life he found work as an extra on the film The Virgin Soldiers and appeared in a pilot television commercial for Lyons Maid , advertising their new ice-cream . |
| 4 | He found work on the promenade there , sitting in a barrel . |
| 5 | After a period of unemployment in 1919 he found work at the government-run Slough Transport Depot where he became chairman of the shop stewards ' committee , organizing strikes and demonstrations against its eventual closure in April 1920 . |
| 6 | He stopped work , and sat back on the edge of the lawn . |
| 7 | He stopped work long enough to look up directly into her face , then bent his head once more and continued cleaning the skull with neat , precise movements of the knife . |
| 8 | He stopped work and sued for the money he alleged to be owing . |
| 9 | After TB was diagnosed , he stopped work immediately and hospital staff set about contacting the 500 children and 500 staff who he had been in contact with him in the weeks before he became ill . |
| 10 | She was about his age , and in the chronic torpid state that overcame him daily as he faced work , he could not make his embarrassment at her gesture connect with his limbs . |
| 11 | Two years later , when he obtained work as a bailiff executing writs , he regained his potency . |
| 12 | With Minton 's help he obtained work at the Royal College as an artist 's model until he decided to return home where his future was secured for him through marriage and the management of a pub . |
| 13 | Clayton , now lives in Australia , having emigrated in August , 1990 , with his family , when he began work on the Sydney Morning Herald . |
| 14 | In 1779 he began work on a German Singspiel , Zaïde , to a text by his father 's old friend , Herr Schachtner . |
| 15 | They broke into his brand new Ford Sierra Cosworth and raced away with it as he began work on another of his smash-hit Spender series . |
| 16 | She agreed , but said that before he began work with Brian Harley — after the Safari circuit but before the European Tour began — he had gone off for several days ’ training . |
| 17 | If Richard had heard about the old Angevin claim when he began work on a castle within the political orbit of Châtellerault he probably thought it had long since lapsed . |
| 18 | In January he began work on a portrait of the Princess of Wales and seeks to offer something more serious than their media image . |
| 19 | He began work in the Daily Express library at ten shillings a week where , by his own testimony , he spent many miserable years filing cuttings in the wrong envelopes and losing reference books . |
| 20 | He began work as a boy at the Pensher coalmine of Charles Stewart , third Marquis of Londonderry [ q.v. ] , and had become an overman by 1837 . |
| 21 | After a number of juvenile jobs he began work in a local joiner 's shop and acquired the skills of a carpenter although he was never officially apprenticed . |
| 22 | He began work in September 1567 in Carrickfergus , and by the autumn of 1570 he had mapped parts of Ulster and almost the whole area south of a line from Killary harbour to Strangford lough . |
| 23 | He began work as a mining engineer in Lanarkshire and applied to Alexander Hamilton Douglas , tenth Duke of Hamilton [ q.v. ] , for permission to open a new mine on his land , but was refused on the grounds that he was too young for such responsibility . |
| 24 | He began work on the rebuilding of the Cathedral at Rochester , and was also responsible for the building of the White Tower at the Tower of London . |
| 25 | He began work as a journalist on the Melton Times in his home town , Melton Mowbray , and then worked in Coventry before joining the West Midlands Gas Board in 1962 to edit employee publications . |
| 26 | He began work as a journalist with the Reading Newspaper Group , where he ‘ chased fire engines , attended excessively long council meetings and was trained in various styles of writing , layout and subbing ’ . |
| 27 | Mr Rafferty moved to Belfast and joined the Irish News in the 1950s and in 1962 he began work as a sub-editor with the Belfast Telegraph . |
| 28 | But there were not many opportunities for the son of a bricklayer to take up writing and at 14 he began work in the parcels department at the local Co-op . |
| 29 | He says he joined the Labour Party in 1977 , seven years after he began work with the forerunner to the present local authority . |
| 30 | In 1990 he began work at Bryn Colwyn , and despite the recession there has been no lack of buyers . |