Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] work " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I did n't want to go work for the Bank . |
| 2 | In the profession I would much prefer to see work generated by the directors , and the casting directors taking more trouble to go round and see the actor at work , taking people on the basis of work they had already seen . |
| 3 | Who would employ a sixty-four-year-old man when there were thousands of young men struggling to find work ? |
| 4 | Some who failed to find work remained unemployed and dependent on family or charity ; others resorted to domestic contract outwork , where the conditions were just as bad as anything in nineteenth-century Europe . |
| 5 | He planned to establish work centres where labourers who were miserably paid by the tradesmen of Bath would receive an honest wage . |
| 6 | The separatist Slovak government is expected to continue work on the dam despite protests . |
| 7 | want to come work for him , did I tell ya . |
| 8 | His father , he added , was a musician and helped to provide work for many unemployed musicians through the Morley College in London by creating an orchestra which Tippett later conducted . |
| 9 | IF YOU want to find work overseas as a newly-fledged EC national , the advice is not ‘ on yer bike ’ but ‘ on the ferry ’ . |
| 10 | She must not forget the other reason why she had wished to find work here , and exile from her old life was not the main one for her presence in Vetch Street . |
| 11 | Remaining single , she devoted herself to a lifetime of campaigning and was , with Bessie Rayner Parkes , Jessie Boucherett , Barbara Bodichon and others , one of the founder members of an organization specifically designed to find work for women , especially the much-spoken-of " half million extra women " in the population who were statistically unlikely to marry . |
| 12 | They tried to find work where they could function well ; for example , a deaf person said she would avoid a position which involved treating patients in groups and would never work in a very large hospital . |
| 13 | Della tried to find work , but times were bad , and there was no work for her . |
| 14 | He tried not to think about the time , six months ahead , when his grant would finish and he would need to find work . |
| 15 | The assumption was that their wages only supplemented the family income and , anyway , they did not need to find work interesting because they had families to look after , which was their real job . |
| 16 | The positive result has been to emerge from 1992 fitter and better organised to win work in what will be another very tough year . |
| 17 | He noted that the club would need to do work on the North and South stands in the foreseeable future . |
| 18 | He noted that the club would need to do work on the North and South stands in the foreseeable future . |
| 19 | Broken down in your liver , and your liver has to do work . |
| 20 | And he ca n't wait to start work on a movie version of the bard 's famous play , Much Ado About Nothing . |
| 21 | If the Government are prepared to put £66 million into the work now , as well as dragooning hon. Members to push this Bill through the House , they must have — certainly they ought to have — a clearer idea of how they will behave in relation to the ultimate funding of the project when British Rail wants to start work . |
| 22 | His government was expected to start work without delay on a new constitution enshrining a pluralist democratic system . |
| 23 | Mr Graham said gipsies tended to travel around looking for work , while the travellers ‘ appear to consider work as a low priority , if indeed any consideration is given at all to working . ’ |
| 24 | Spain is the EC country that 's most enthusiastic about working wives — more men and women want to share work and family responsibilities than in any other member state . |
| 25 | ICL PC was forecast to start work in Mainz-Kastell on March 1 , with some 25 workers looking after both private customers and middle-sized companies . |
| 26 | Community partners will soon need to start work on a new machine that will build on its results and bring commercial fusion a step nearer . |
| 27 | New employees will need to start work as soon as the move has taken place and training plans must be initiated straight away if staff are to be effective quickly . |
| 28 | ‘ But first she has to finish work on her book on Chequers , which is being published by Little , Brown in Spring 1994 . ’ |
| 29 | An old play area was uprooted to allow work to begin on the building of a Butterfly World hothouse bug collection and free flying area . |
| 30 | Huszti also noted that bidders would be permitted to sub-contract work if they were unable to meet any particular requirements of the tender . |