Example sentences of "[vb past] to work " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd come half past seven to eight to pay us as we came to work , to hand us the money we 'd earnt for the last week , always keeping about three days in hand . |
| 2 | I had n't realized till long , long afterwards , until she after she was dead , that er she and her brother came to work , when the Midland Railway came to Nottingham , they left Norfolk , and he 's got a horse , as a carter , and they walked from Holt , in Norfolk , to Nottingham , in search of a job . |
| 3 | I do n't know where the name came from it , it , it 's , it 's , it 's simple and it seemed to work erm |
| 4 | Declarative sentences identical except for different incompatible terms in parallel syntactic positions ( besides those used in the test ) are frequently in a contrary relationship : if I cycled to work is true , then I walked to work is false , but if I cycled to work is false , then I walked to work may be either true or false . |
| 5 | Declarative sentences identical except for different incompatible terms in parallel syntactic positions ( besides those used in the test ) are frequently in a contrary relationship : if I cycled to work is true , then I walked to work is false , but if I cycled to work is false , then I walked to work may be either true or false . |
| 6 | Declarative sentences identical except for different incompatible terms in parallel syntactic positions ( besides those used in the test ) are frequently in a contrary relationship : if I cycled to work is true , then I walked to work is false , but if I cycled to work is false , then I walked to work may be either true or false . |
| 7 | Declarative sentences identical except for different incompatible terms in parallel syntactic positions ( besides those used in the test ) are frequently in a contrary relationship : if I cycled to work is true , then I walked to work is false , but if I cycled to work is false , then I walked to work may be either true or false . |
| 8 | By the time when he began to work most intensively on what would become The Waste Land , Eliot was neither god nor martyr . |
| 9 | However , this is not always easy to achieve , as I found out when I first returned to work in 1977 after my degree course . |
| 10 | ‘ As far as we are aware there were no fish in distress when we returned to work on the Thursday morning and the canal was refilled with two feet of water . ’ |
| 11 | When they returned to work on Saturday morning , they found that the pressure in the apparatus had stayed high but , by Monday , it had fallen , indicating that a leak had developed . |
| 12 | Two days after leaving Angel at the Foundling Hospital Sarah returned to work at the house in Newcastle Place . |
| 13 | But she feared that when she returned to work at the unit , the problems she had complained about would still be there . |
| 14 | A few days after she returned to work , ‘ David ’ telephoned her office . |
| 15 | Management offered to pay the workers for the lost days if they returned to work by Wednesday morning , but at a mass meeting on Tuesday 10 June workers voted 48 to 10 against resuming work and rejecting settlement proposals worked out between management and the union until they had seen a report from the Department of Labour Factory Inspectorate . |
| 16 | It became clear she was on holiday , and when she returned to work a disciplinary hearing was held and she was sacked . |
| 17 | But when she returned to work , NatWest bosses told her : ‘ Sorry , you 're surplus to requirements . ’ |
| 18 | He was immediately given extended leave to undergo psychiatric therapy but refused to cooperate with the medical staff and was retired from Delta at his own request a month after he returned to work . |
| 19 | He returned to work in September but , in the following month , was forced to have most of the remainder of his teeth extracted : he had now entered his sixtieth year , and was suffering some of the inconveniences of age . |
| 20 | Then he fell ill and for several months was unfit for any work : the cost of medicines , the increase in debts , his feebleness when , too early , he returned to work , combined to make him look , a man in the stable-yard had said , ‘ like a living skeletal ’ . |
| 21 | During the miners ' strike in 1984 , members of the South Wales area of the National Union of Mineworkers supported the strike call but , months later , a few of them returned to work under extensive protection from the police . |
| 22 | However , they increasingly returned to work in both the public and private sectors once their children were in school , but tended to do so part-time ( see Manley and Sawbridge , 1980 ) . |
| 23 | Weak but feeling , as she put it , ‘ lighter ’ , she returned to work . |
| 24 | ‘ It was like them pictures of Hell we used to get in Sunday school , ’ she told the other women when she returned to work two days later . |
| 25 | Hannington returned to work as a lathe-turner and while serving as convener of shop stewards was elected a national organizer of the AEU in November 1941 . |
| 26 | A long illness caused him to relinquish his management role , but he returned to work as scientific adviser until his retirement in 1963 . |
| 27 | All 27,000 dismissed and striking workers would be permitted to return to employment in the same job and at the same grade and wage as at the beginning of the strike , provided that they returned to work in the period from Jan. 31 to Feb. 6 . |
| 28 | After undergoing medical tests in Australia , Lini returned to work on June 14 and , on June 27 , dismissed four ministers who had not acceded to his loyalty pledge . |
| 29 | I 've erm , returned to work contracting and in fact , at Commercial Union for the last three years . |
| 30 | They were still talking about the incident on Wednesday when Kathleen returned to work after her days off . |