Example sentences of "to work " in BNC.
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| 1 | The extreme of critical judgement is to destroy the work concerned , as bulldozers destroyed a Russian exhibition of experimental art in 1974 ; or to forbid an artist to work , as was the practice in National Socialist Germany , where another form of criticism was used in 1937 by making an exhibition of art to be repudiated by its visitors . |
| 2 | The greatest possible self-created order , he wrote , compatible of course with the freedom to work , which may mean very little order indeed or may mean a great deal of order , depending on the individual and the circumstances . |
| 3 | Sleep , wake , cook , eat , go in , switch on light , examine prisoner , get down to work , finish work , write up notebook , sleep , wake , cook , eat . |
| 4 | Sadly , it was not going to work . |
| 5 | Without further ado , I set to work . |
| 6 | Whether you 're shopping , going to work or travelling for pleasure , it 's a lot cheaper and much healthier ! |
| 7 | However , this is not always easy to achieve , as I found out when I first returned to work in 1977 after my degree course . |
| 8 | Yet another inspector returning to Leicester with a degree in psychology was set to work in the force vehicle store counting tyres . |
| 9 | I go to work each day . |
| 10 | The Furus have agreed to return to work — for wages instead of marioc — on condition that it is not in the red iron mines . |
| 11 | She found a spanner and set to work on the bike . |
| 12 | Some areas have day care available at weekends , or for long days so that a carer can go out to work . |
| 13 | More commuters actually go from London to Reading to work than vice versa . |
| 14 | It is again the age of going to work by train . |
| 15 | Traditionally every hornpipe begins as the sailors come on deck and dance figures-of-eight round the bollards before setting to work . |
| 16 | As soon as you pick it up you know it is going to work well , and it does ! |
| 17 | For anyone who goes out to work or has to leave home early during the week the garden is a weekends-only pleasure for almost half of the year . |
| 18 | Marjorie was looking forward to her freedom ; no need to be up at seven o'clock to go to work , no rushing back to make the tea . |
| 19 | And at last , and most imprudently , he married an ambitious tyrant who drove him up the career ladder , and when things began to get too much he set to work on a toy church with pastor , pulpit , congregation , organ and so forth . |
| 20 | Even longer delays can occur when the printer is set to work . |
| 21 | People are told that Mr Zhang was so dedicated that he cut short his honeymoon to return to work , telling his new wife : ‘ One day without hearing the sound of the drill , my heart is heavy . |
| 22 | Is it going to work ? |
| 23 | They claim to see each other less than couples who go out to work , meeting for the occasional cup of coffee in the kitchen . |
| 24 | ‘ We simply went to work like normal citizens during martial law and now it seems that 's a crime , ’ he went on , gesturing at the 20 heads of party factory cells who were gathered to discuss the future of communism in Poland . |
| 25 | Midland , whose staff is 56 per cent female , is the first major clearing bank to start a nursery programme : others are expected to follow in the drive to woo mothers back to work . |
| 26 | But for any good ideas to work , we have to restore a sense of decency , of caring and an understanding of shared concern for the fabric of our community . |
| 27 | He said : ‘ If the crypto-market in education is going to work , parents will need hard information , rather than relying on gossip in the local pub . |
| 28 | PARIS — The wave of strikes that has gripped France for a month showed some signs of abating yesterday as prison officers agreed to go back to work , writes Sarah Lambert . |
| 29 | But those who participate have to sign a non-competition deal preventing them from leaving to work with a rival consortium . |
| 30 | She taught me the basics : casting-on , how to knit and pearl , and I set to work . |