Example sentences of "[to-vb] for 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 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Wick was where many of those impoverished Lewisachs , men and women , went to look for work that unsuccessful fishing season of ‘ 74 . |
| 17 | And because of the surfeit of accountants forced to look for work ‘ outside ’ , employers are increasingly able to offer poorer terms . |
| 18 | They have all gone off to work or to look for work , leaving behind the old , the disabled , the women and the children . |
| 19 | Capital could flow about freely to seek investment , and labour could migrate to look for work . |
| 20 | The government could also be tougher on benefits for invalidity and long-term sickness , whose claimants have multiplied even though national health has improved , and on payments to lone parents , who have too little incentive to look for work once their children reach school age . |
| 21 | The advertisement pages of The Scotsman in the golden Edwardian afternoon carried long columns of vacancies for parlourmaids , cooks and housemaids ( so it is not surprising , though it must have been a source of irritation , that male printers hostile to women entering the trade often urged them to look for work " in service " ) . |
| 22 | Their father , Oliver P. Bernard , the theatre designer who had worked at Covent Garden and the Boston Opera House and who had also designed Art Deco interiors for Lyons restaurants , had died insolvent , thereby terminating his sons ' education and obliging them to look for work . |
| 23 | He had awful visions of himself walking the streets , demeaning himself to look for work . |
| 24 | The next day we began to look for work . |
| 25 | Norman Tebbit 's advice to the unemployed to ‘ get on their bikes ’ to look for work implied that many people were voluntarily unemployed and this statement was probably symptomatic of the government 's whole approach to unemployment . |
| 26 | They turned towards the sea and went to look for work on the boats . |
| 27 | What I do deplore , and what people everywhere in the Highlands deeply resent , is the English take-over of land , homes and businesses of every kind , while the local people are forced to leave to look for work . |
| 28 | And then we er we left school and then we went to work for to w we went to look for work . |
| 29 | Oh no We had to look for work . |
| 30 | Relaxation in eligibility criteria would also reduce the pressure on able-bodied recipients to look for work . |