Example sentences of "have [be] [adv prt] [prep] work " in BNC.
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| 1 | Graham Townsend has been back at work for only 4 weeks . |
| 2 | In mid-Cornwall , for example , over a third of the male population has been out of work in recent years . |
| 3 | Her husband has been out of work for three years , but her life as the breadwinner was quite unlike his . |
| 4 | He has been out of work for years . |
| 5 | The first step in achieving this objective is to guarantee a place on Employment Training ( ET ) for everyone who has been out of work for a long period of time . |
| 6 | Builder Ivan James has been out of work for a year . |
| 7 | Ivor Jones has been out of work for six months . |
| 8 | The former Everton skipper , who has been out of work since January , has landed a plum job in the country of the world 's richest man . |
| 9 | Fiona , who has been out of work for six years , lives in Abbeyhill , Edinburgh , with her daughters , aged 22 months and six , on a weekly income of £68.15 from income support . |
| 10 | But you had to have qualified for it by working , see ? end of the week and the only place I ever had one was at and because the foreman approached me , I 'd been out of work and got the job by writing to it , going to the library and it was in one of the London papers , they wanted men for the tool rooms . |
| 11 | It was like when his Giro cheques from the unemployment people had n't turned up the last time he 'd been out of work ; it was all done to wear him down . |
| 12 | He was from and he 'd been out of work a long time . |
| 13 | B. If you had been a young person in 1860 , like Jimmy Horsley 's great-grandfather , you might easily have been out of work . |
| 14 | but you got to have been out of work six months , so I said well I 've been out of work six months , so she , I 've got that to do tomorrow , so I get up the firm this Spinny Hill , Northampton , that 's an adult education centre where you can go and learn the skills of your trade , but she said that might not start until September |
| 15 | Then , inexplicably , I had been out of work for over a year and my few friends were drifting away . |
| 16 | Just over 4 in 10 ( 42% ) dependent children in 1987 lived in a household where the head had been out of work for two or more years . |
| 17 | Her father , Ray Shepherd had worked in the shipyard until it closed and her elder brother , Steve , had been out of work since leaving school . |
| 18 | But when people lose their jobs , they now stand a worse than fifty-fifty chance of being out of work for more than three months ( in July 1978 , 53 per cent of those who were registered as unemployed had been out of work for longer than three months ) . |
| 19 | Mrs M. 's husband , a coal-miner , had been out of work for nine months when she applied unsuccessfully for her union card . |
| 20 | He had been out of work for a year and some mates had clubbed up to give him enough money to take a three-week walking holiday on the Pennine Way . |
| 21 | After he had been out of work for months his telephone rang and a manager asked to see him . |
| 22 | Since I 've been back at work , life has been just great . |
| 23 | ‘ Women lose confidence being out of the labour market , men tend to lose confidence if they 've been out of work ’ , says Michaels . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm very disappointed because I 've been out of work since returning from the tour last summer and this contract meant security for my family . ’ |
| 25 | I 've been out of work six months . |
| 26 | I 've been out of work six months . |
| 27 | I 've gone down hill since then , but she said you know these folks are hard when you 've been out of work for a long while , you 've got ta just get back up and fight again , I said , she said and I know how hard that is , but she said you know , if you can get it going and fit and get in , so |
| 28 | but you got to have been out of work six months , so I said well I 've been out of work six months , so she , I 've got that to do tomorrow , so I get up the firm this Spinny Hill , Northampton , that 's an adult education centre where you can go and learn the skills of your trade , but she said that might not start until September |
| 29 | Like no way I 've been out of work for a few months |
| 30 | Employment Training should be opened up to unemployed people over 50 , irrespective of how long they have been out of work . |