Example sentences of "work [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's very hard work that machine . |
| 2 | We teachers need actually to say to the children that they are going to enjoy the work that day , that it will be interesting , and that they are going to know or be able to do things at the end of the day that they did n't know or were n't able to do before . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was her sixty-fifth , she was retiring from work that day . |
| 5 | It places it into a context of back in the 1930's when people would gather early in the morning and wait for the foreman to come along and pick out people who look suitable for work that day . |
| 6 | She was deep into her work that afternoon when Rosemary rang . |
| 7 | ‘ People do get work that way but it 's horrible to sit and watch at those parties where there 's so much competition and everyone 's running around in tight frocks getting drunk ’ , she says . |
| 8 | Donleavy was highly complimentary about Coleman 's work that summer . |
| 9 | When he went to work that evening Tod left the letters by the front step , encased in a white shoebox on which someone — presumably Irene — had scrawled the words The Hell With You . |
| 10 | Richard came back from work that evening later than he had hoped . |
| 11 | One afternoon I summoned up my courage and as casually as I could I invited him for a drink after work that evening . |
| 12 | Certainly it would be very difficult to introduce any statistical rational erm to the desegregation of Greater York to its district components , bearing in mind the small populations er in some of the Greater York er districts , we think that the general level of detail erm in the structure plan is appropriate , and we think to go down to any finer detail would be an inappropriate to a structure plan , and thirdly I think on that issue , er we would think that it would prejudice erm the work that District Council would want to do erm in their er local plans . |
| 13 | The whole place was buzzing when she arrived at work that morning . |
| 14 | When he arrived at work that morning the result of their labours was waiting for him in a blue folder . |
| 15 | Oh , and bu by the way Margot was about half an hour late for work that morning and that was the story that we got . |
| 16 | The effect on those who are employed in the areas of work that Employment Action will concentrate on will be to increase unemployment and force down wages . |
| 17 | ( 4 ) Consider individuals who are doing work that they should not be ; and consider what work each member of the firm is capable of if properly trained and supervised . |
| 18 | ‘ In the USA , there has been a total of 29 cases of occupationally-acquired HIV reported in healthcare workers compared with thousands of new cases of hepatitis B transmitted at work each year . ’ |
| 19 | I go to work each day . |
| 20 | We had a very full household : grown-ups , big children , small children , a baby , and a shop , as well as our father going to work each day . |
| 21 | They moved into a second floor flat , so Dawn now had to run her own home and travel to work each day . |
| 22 | — be prepared to tell him any particular things he should know ( e.g. you spend a long time travelling to and from work each day ; you have recently had a bereavement in your family ; you have to get up each night for the children , etc . ) . |
| 23 | Can you find the average distance they travel to work each day ? |
| 24 | When he was a director of Sotheby 's he would bicycle into work each day . |
| 25 | Ten hours work each day in the Factory , three meals of hidden meat without fresh vegetables and fruit . |
| 26 | For example , the man may travel to work each day by car and so carry an extra £20 with him just in case his vehicle breaks down and needs to be repaired at once . |
| 27 | I was not prepared to travel 140 miles to and from work each day , nor to live away from home on a long term basis , so I inquired about part time training . |
| 28 | George was probably already working in Pocklington , walking into work each day , for a saddler would not have had much employment in the small village where he lived . |
| 29 | As BR and union leaders tried to resolve the problem of finding new jobs for the teams , the men turned up for work each day at Liverpool 's Central Station and simply sat in their vans for eight hours a day . |
| 30 | You should be able to give a rough estimate of how much work each stage of the case is likely to entail . |