Example sentences of "work [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You mean you 're not going to work me over as usual ? |
| 2 | ‘ Tony did some sketches last year and he was going to work them up into a picture — why have n't you , Tony ? ’ |
| 3 | And to think , he wrote , that with all my previous work I barely knew what step to take first , let alone what step to take second , let us not talk about the third . |
| 4 | In my work I meant to love you , but my voice dissipated … |
| 5 | On the other hand no one else did the work I had been doing over the past year . |
| 6 | The 44 has a 1/4in shank , and I found it perfect for the aggressive work I was attempting . |
| 7 | I have certainly been party to one or two discussions amongst friends , and as part of my work I take groups of young people away on climbing trips , most to very white-dominated areas where the mere appearance of a black face in a pub or at a crag is enough to cause stares and whispers . |
| 8 | But in most of Williams ' work I feel the kind of observations being ‘ made ’ … seem to me too casual , however delightfully phrased , to be especially interesting … |
| 9 | on live work I used to get 20 per cent . |
| 10 | As Sabra , a woman in her forties , told me ‘ If I go out I usually do have my Dupatta round me , but at work I ca n't wear it in case it gets caught up in the machines , so I just wear a scarf on my head when I leave the house — something is needed to save one 's Izzat ’ . |
| 11 | Now I am studying to get a British qualification to continue the work I did at home . |
| 12 | ‘ Afterwards , when I came to London , I was never really well , although the work I was doing was not hard . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It is n't the work I mind … it is n't even having to clean him up … ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Is n't it enough to look at the work I 've produced and leave it at that ? ’ |
| 15 | In my work I have been involved with many families who have needed to arrange a funeral . |
| 16 | Someone recently said to me ‘ I 'm gradually getting over the death of my husband , but if I had realized all the extra work I would have I 'm not sure I could have coped . |
| 17 | It is a work I have to come back to again and again . |
| 18 | At the PEN office were Imre Szász of PEN , Ottó Orbán , a poet whose work I had admired in translation , László Kunos , translator and an editor with Corvina , the national publishing house , and Maria Körösy , translator and secretary of Hungarian PEN . |
| 19 | ‘ I feel deeply honoured to have been given the opportunity of continuing the work I 've started in the last 16 months , ’ he said . |
| 20 | David hardly paints for sale any more — it 's opera , camera , fax and camcord , which hardly helps me pay my rent , and Frank Stella , whose work I admire more than anyone 's , makes these enormous aluminium , what I call floor reliefs , that are very hard to sell . |
| 21 | For the listener , there is nothing to keep her to this role unless she happens to have a partner whose talk is engaging ( or , of course , there may be extrinsic pressures of , for example , wanting to please teacher , which because it is always a possible element in children 's work I will not keep referring to but will take for granted ) . |
| 22 | With all the work I have as Dean ? ’ |
| 23 | I did all those movies because they were the only work I could get , ’ Nicholson said in a frank assessment of his next few years of acting roles on the fringes of Hollywood , appearing almost entirely in low-cost , quickly made horror films , and what were then called teenage exploitation pictures , mostly with Roger Corman . |
| 24 | It was interesting to find out that the work I was doing actually suited my 10K needs . ’ |
| 25 | Pierre Bourdieu , for instance , whose work I have drawn on extensively here , is not alone in raging against those who celebrate the ‘ aftermath of modernism ’ . |
| 26 | If I , being ignorant , ask a mathematician about his work I must expect , if I am to understand him , to be led into a realm of abstraction that I am unaccustomed to . |
| 27 | Sometimes at work I feel I have had enough and I am overwhelmed by the material so that I thirst for meditation which can be a rededication and a balancing of our lives . |
| 28 | Back with Miss Maine I was shown what was thought to be the trickiest of all the work I must do . |
| 29 | But whatever definition one accepts , let us agree that there are such categories , and for the purpose of this work I shall define productive labour as being : labour which is exchanged with capital and produces a surplus-value , a surplus-value moreover which is embodied in material commodities , the form of which is capable of being used as capital for the reproduction and extension of capital . |
| 30 | Dr. Elliott has devoted something like 35 years to Carver 's cause , and has enabled many to appreciate the composer 's quality and beauty of thought , but in the case of this particular work I have to say I find the results a little drab , making a somewhat downbeat conclusion to this invaluable series . |