Example sentences of "looking for work " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking for work costs money . |
| 2 | ‘ No , I 'm still looking for work . |
| 3 | So I spent my first month as Special Projects Officer looking for work . |
| 4 | Provincial market towns , in 1922 as throughout the Soviet period , collected the first rural tide of those looking for work — peasant vagrants , demobilized soldiers , and in the case of the Smolensk area , flax-workers out of a job as their industry began to decline after the boom of the war years . |
| 5 | The number of Poles officially looking for work shot up from 9,600 in December to 220,000 last month . |
| 6 | He ought to start looking for work now . ’ |
| 7 | My father was away , looking for work . |
| 8 | ‘ Have n't seen YOU either , Bill … been down south , looking for work . ’ |
| 9 | There were a number of horror stars looking for work who would not want the earth in salaries , and he assembled a notable team of players which included Vincent Price , Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre . |
| 10 | How long have you been looking for work ? |
| 11 | Pepper explained in an interview , ‘ When I came to the hotel I was sort of looking for work . |
| 12 | He was always looking for work , ’ one said . |
| 13 | ‘ When I went out to look at replacements , I found there were plenty of quality players available looking for work . |
| 14 | Even now it is the magnet that draws the rural peasants and small businessmen looking for work and casual labour . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Almost three quarters of married women are now looking for work , 21 per cent more than in the early 70s when mum 's prime concern was caring for her children . |
| 17 | ‘ No , I 'm looking for work . |
| 18 | The testers presented themselves at factory gates , the minority one first and the other about half an hour later , and said they were looking for work . |
| 19 | She had combed the shops of Windsor looking for work , and at last had found some . |
| 20 | ‘ Luke came to me looking for work , and we sealed the bargain with egg sandwiches . |
| 21 | The idea of them having to bring fortnightly evidence that they have been looking for work when in the majority of cases they are not even permitted onto premises to ask for a job suggests an obvious indifference on the part of the policy makers . |
| 22 | On the one hand we have Prince Charles and Lady Di encouraging us to do voluntary work , telling us how noble it is and on the other hand we are told it might actually go against us because it takes up our valuable time when we should be looking for work . |
| 23 | Other speakers expressed unease about disturbing the wage Structure , and James Wilkie , an Edinburgh compositor in the hall , warned that the city already had too many apprentices , too low wages and not enough work : " with the exception of a month or two in the winter time , there were always printers looking for work " . |
| 24 | I lived in the Department of Sonsonate but we went all over the place looking for work . |
| 25 | One of the policies proposed to reduce the large number of people looking for work and thus to reduce the level of unemployment , consists of ensuring that fewer women from the secondary population enter the labour market . |
| 26 | Looking for work |
| 27 | They found that for married men who were household heads under age 45 , the proportions ‘ out of work ’ ( a wider concept than we used which included those who had given up looking for work because they did n't think any was available ) was about nine times as high in the local authority as in the occupied sector . |
| 28 | I 'm trying to trace a member of our family who moved to this part of London during the war , looking for work . |
| 29 | The night I arrived I was walking around the streets on my own looking for work . |
| 30 | Five were looking for work . |