Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] work " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sarah was given a new apron to wear for work and an embroidered handkerchief for herself , a very pretty one with lace round the edge which was much too good to use . |
| 2 | They felt stigmatized , as skilled men , by taking unskilled work , and it left them no time to search for work at their trade . |
| 3 | Inability to Attend for Work |
| 4 | If you are unable to attend for work for any reason , you must ensure that your immediate Manager is informed before 10 am on the first day of absence so that arrangements can be made to deal with your work . |
| 5 | ( see also Inability to Attend for Work and Long Term Sickness Benefit |
| 6 | All the 650 headquarters staff were told to report for work as normal . |
| 7 | Simply presenting an unfair dismissal application to an industrial tribunal is not , for instance , sufficient if you continue to report for work . |
| 8 | Each morning at seven the members of the Brotherhood presented themselves at the dock-gates , and Josh called out their numbers , allowing them in one at a time to report for work . |
| 9 | See they used to get the , they used t what they call they used to report for work at say quarter past seven in the morning and then they be at work at half past seven , but now of course they do n't now , they , I think they start about eight o'clock now . |
| 10 | Even private companies considering submitting tenders to NIREX for work on waste management began to get worried about their image . |
| 11 | However , Jesus never called people to work for work 's sake . |
| 12 | you know more likely to worry about work , more likely to feel that they 're , they 're not quite coping , more likely to feel erm you know that , that somehow everybody else is getting on with it and , and , and , and they ca n't , I mean that 's just , you know , going from what people have told me so |
| 13 | ‘ I 'll make her my wife , ’ he declared to himself , ‘ or I 'll never be able to concentrate on work again ! ’ |
| 14 | In the last terms of the diploma course students often find tutorials , where they are given opportunity to talk about work in progress , enormously valuable . |
| 15 | ‘ But they want to talk about work , Maggie , get us into a union and all that . |
| 16 | A handful of people crossed the harbour square , dawdling on their way home or to drink after work . |
| 17 | She wanted to move the conversation along as she would do with any other person she had just met at a cocktail party , to talk of work and why they were there and if they could be of any use to each other . |
| 18 | Also under the bill , all secondary school pupils will in future be eligible to participate in work experience schemes from the beginning of the summer term . |
| 19 | We want big changes and we want them quickly , but we can not see clearly enough how to set to work . |
| 20 | But if it were pigeon droppings then it would be a moot point as to whether merely to murmur condolences and hurry on or to set to work with a clean handkerchief . |
| 21 | The idea is to set to work without great expense and elaborate machinery , or under primitive conditions . |
| 22 | Carpenters who 'd thought their job was done , had to set to work again . |
| 23 | Darlington Council 's next plan is to set to work improving the derelict land sites bordering the River Skerne . |
| 24 | They were allowed to drink at work ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He says that the squeeze on his income under a Labour government may mean that his wife would have to look for work , or he may seriously consider taking his skills abroad . |
| 27 | I found it depressing that they all had ambitions to go to Manila to look for work when they were older — taking a one-way ticket from the garden of Eden to Sodom and Gomorrah . |
| 28 | Some mill-workers on a mid-shift and a group of men crossing the river to look for work made up the rest of the throng , with the exception of a portly little man with a bowler hat , waistcoat and watch-chain , a foreman from one of the Govan yards on an errand for the Head Office . |
| 29 | Wick was where many of those impoverished Lewisachs , men and women , went to look for work that unsuccessful fishing season of ‘ 74 . |
| 30 | And because of the surfeit of accountants forced to look for work ‘ outside ’ , employers are increasingly able to offer poorer terms . |