Example sentences of "up [prep] work " in BNC.
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| 1 | What would everyone back at the cafe have thought when , for the first time in eight months , I had n't shown up for work ? |
| 2 | Few men turned up for work — no Sandy McGlashan , and no Donald McCulloch of course . |
| 3 | THE GOLD lettering on the socialist-realist facade of the White House overlooking the Danube was still there yesterday morning as hundreds of bureaucrats showed up for work . |
| 4 | At 0810 he gathered his staff around him for the daily conference to discuss the day ahead , before taking the morning parade of those attending various courses at the school , to ensure that everyone had turned up for work . |
| 5 | The reason why timekeeping was particularly bad on Tuesdays , Wednesdays and Thursdays , when employees did turn up for work , was because the buses were so unreliable . |
| 6 | Businesses in buildings with glass shattered by the blast were re-assuring staff that it would be safe to turn up for work . |
| 7 | Moreover , children attending school and adults turning up for work inevitably have their liberty restricted : simply because the engagement in one activity necessarily restricts their opportunity to participate in other activities , that is , restriction by effect . |
| 8 | In the simplest case , you may not be sure whether you should continue to turn up for work or not . |
| 9 | Mr. Maton had worked for many years as a solicitor 's clerk , he had not turned up for work that day , the young man sent to check the reason had found Mr. Maton dead in the kitchen , the small loaf collected on his way home from work the previous evening still in its wrapping on the table . |
| 10 | And I 'll need somebody to wake me up for work tomorrow . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ What if we both get too drunk to get up for work tomorrow ? ’ she asked as they climbed aboard the bus and put their money in the ticket machine . |
| 12 | For what you decide to do now will influence whether or not you turn up for work — and what your likely reception will be if you do . |
| 13 | ‘ I usually take no notice and just turn up for work the following day . |
| 14 | When employees fail to turn up for work today , it can often cause huge management headaches , particularly in labour intensive industries where absence may require reallocation of production line work and potential bottlenecks in the system . |
| 15 | If we do not turn up for work , we are likely to get the sack , but in our private worlds we can dream our lives away at home , church or play . |
| 16 | He even made a pot of tea and poured her a cup when she got up for work . |
| 17 | Similarly , job-related sickness may mean that the ageing worker is more frequently unable to turn up for work . |
| 18 | These are , for example , the nameless and faceless workers who lined up for work in response to Henry Ford 's visionary offer of a $5-per-day paycheck . |
| 19 | In October and November the raids were taking place nearly every night , but in spite of the disturbed nights almost everyone turned up for work next day . |
| 20 | The fact that BBC and ITV rarely use the old test card any more means that people playing this anonymous instrumental pap are hard up for work . |
| 21 | Not quite knowing what to expect other than that she wanted a new job , Jean turned up for work promptly on a cold , wet , Monday morning but found no one to let her in . |
| 22 | Paula James , Matthew Glyrm 's youthful amanuensis ( after a one-year course in office routines at the technical college ) had turned up for work as usual , unaware of the events which had robbed her of her employer . |
| 23 | First , Matthew 's secretary , the girl who works in the office next door , turned up for work as usual this morning ; she lives a few miles out and she knew nothing of what had happened . ’ |
| 24 | Emily Lightbody had not turned up for work since the preceding Friday , a rare occurrence in all her thirty years of service . |
| 25 | She read the Catechism in bed at night , occasionally sighing ; she would turn towards Bernard and her long hair — she wore it up for work , half-down in the home , fully down in bed — would fall over her face , over her white shoulder . |
| 26 | He shook hands with scores of clerks , cooks and cleaners who had overcome feelings of revulsion and fear to turn up for work after the brutal and ghastly murder of their friend and colleague , who had been chained to a 1,000lb bomb . |
| 27 | I think when we were , as far as I can remember is when we were sent either letters of , letters to warn us that we were gon na be dismissed if we did n't turn up for work or either when we were dismissed . |
| 28 | The fact that BBC and ITV rarely use the old test card any more means that people playing this anonymous instrumental pap are hard up for work . |
| 29 | Miners turn up for work at Silverhill |
| 30 | Mrs Allen 's body was found at her Harberton Park home on Tuesday morning after a senior officer at the Maze informed Banbridge police that she had not turned up for work . |