Example sentences of "[prep] work [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He admitted taking heroin with one employee after work but denied introducing him to drugs or setting up any deals . |
| 2 | The RAF Benevolent Fund made an initial contribution towards my clothes , and Mr Grice , their representative , would come round after work and help my mother fill in the forms . |
| 3 | He 'd come in after work and found two cans of baked beans in the cupboard . |
| 4 | Women and girls were not expected to go off after work and sing in choirs or play games — they were expected to be at home catching up on household chores . |
| 5 | And , and people want a drink after work and have a chat , cos the |
| 6 | ‘ It gives us the opportunity to work on persuading the huge catchment area around us that it is perfectly possible to get the Hamilton habit after work when experiencing a top evening out . ’ |
| 7 | He was too tired for work but felt he must continue otherwise he would think back to Cranston 's words about Benedicta . |
| 8 | A MAN behind a building firm that has taken thousands from customers for work that has remained undone was bouncing cheques to suppliers last spring . |
| 9 | The Department of Health has not decided yet how much general practitioners will be paid for work that exceeds their contractual obligations , such as attending care management meetings and performing certain assessments . |
| 10 | Other women did not want to adopt the ‘ unemployed ’ label associated with registering for work or did not want confirmation of their unemployed status . |
| 11 | Mr Boesky is free to leave the centre during the day to look for work or meet his lawyers , but has to report back by 6pm . |
| 12 | Nurses are invited to make it known that for one reason or another they may encounter difficulties in attending for work as scheduled . |
| 13 | She is looking for work and thinks she may be forced to move to London in search of a job . |
| 14 | Travellers said they would be late for work and miss meetings . |
| 15 | She wears little make-up for work and says : ‘ It goes back to the time when I started in the job . |
| 16 | Jobless David Griffiths , 20 , spent three fruitless months hunting for work and found himself under arrest when police spotted him putting up stickers in a St John 's Wood phone box . |
| 17 | Some as young as eleven and twelve , these ‘ migrant labourers ’ went looking for work and did not always find it , turning to other less than legal ways of earning their bread . |
| 18 | There are two reasons for this : it would take far too long for the calves to reach working age , and their mothers would be off work while rearing very young calves . |
| 19 | The decision to take time off work or to return to work is complicated and will vary between individuals and at different times . |
| 20 | Mary , my eldest sister , had taken the day off work and had washed the curtains but for lack of time to dry them properly had hung them back up wet . |
| 21 | For several days she stayed off work and continued to weep helplessly until exhausted . |
| 22 | When we were in port he let me off work and allowed me to go ashore for as long as I wanted : " After all , you 're here to see these places . |
| 23 | With the birth less than six weeks away , Jacqui is juggling a hectic schedule between work and planning for the new arrival . |
| 24 | Sometimes I get confused between work and socialising , especially when we spend our off-duty time discussing what we did on duty . |
| 25 | ‘ What is it about work that gives you the most pleasure ? ’ |
| 26 | If you do this you are unlikely to face the problem of forgetting about work and having inadequate time to do an assignment justice . |
| 27 | At 5 o'clock forget about work and give some in-depth thought to what 's happening at home . |
| 28 | M m yes , they talked about work or work , and erm , but not about conditions particularly , and was a medium pit for conditions . |
| 29 | They met through work and had an affair for five months until Mike , who was divorced , suggested Marianne should leave her husband . |
| 30 | The aim of marking is , of course , not just to assign a number to a piece of work but to give constructive feedback so that the students ' work steadily improves . |