Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] to work " in BNC.
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| 1 | Declarative sentences identical except for different incompatible terms in parallel syntactic positions ( besides those used in the test ) are frequently in a contrary relationship : if I cycled to work is true , then I walked to work is false , but if I cycled to work is false , then I walked to work may be either true or false . |
| 2 | Declarative sentences identical except for different incompatible terms in parallel syntactic positions ( besides those used in the test ) are frequently in a contrary relationship : if I cycled to work is true , then I walked to work is false , but if I cycled to work is false , then I walked to work may be either true or false . |
| 3 | Declarative sentences identical except for different incompatible terms in parallel syntactic positions ( besides those used in the test ) are frequently in a contrary relationship : if I cycled to work is true , then I walked to work is false , but if I cycled to work is false , then I walked to work may be either true or false . |
| 4 | Declarative sentences identical except for different incompatible terms in parallel syntactic positions ( besides those used in the test ) are frequently in a contrary relationship : if I cycled to work is true , then I walked to work is false , but if I cycled to work is false , then I walked to work may be either true or false . |
| 5 | You see there 'd been the nineteen fourteen eighteen War , then there 'd there was the strike , and er I started to work and I had to go to work . |
| 6 | I was going out with this guy called John Colley whose relations were sort of minor gangsters in London and I went to work for them because they did n't mind my not being English . |
| 7 | ( Before I went to work in the morning I would take a bucket of water and a scrubbing brush and deal with the black-and-white chequered marble shop doorstep — in my memory it is a glittering affair , although cold on frosty mornings — because at that time of the day the rising sun often shone full down the High Street where we lived and on me , as I knelt on the cobbled pavement plying my scrubbing-brush . ) |
| 8 | So I went to work for Tom Purtzer , who was thrilled to win the 1984 Phoenix Open in his hometown . |
| 9 | I first became interested in the Cyclades in 1961 , after I went to work on the excavations at Nea Nikomedeia , the early Neolithic village in Macedonia . |
| 10 | I grew up wanting not so much money as glamour , and when I left school at 15 I went to work in the department store , Bourne & Hollingsworth . |
| 11 | Then I went to work in a five and ten , and gradually worked my way up until I was managing a general store . |
| 12 | Then I went to work in another factory as a machinist and I moved into a room with the child . |
| 13 | ( That is why it seems more reasonable to say ‘ I went to work in my pyjamas ’ than ‘ I went to work in my clothes ’ . ) |
| 14 | ( That is why it seems more reasonable to say ‘ I went to work in my pyjamas ’ than ‘ I went to work in my clothes ’ . ) |
| 15 | Er er you see it was all , with me it was when I , at the time I went to work and er I had to leave work to have my baby you see . |
| 16 | I went to work Monday and I could n't get out come downstairs for the week I was that stiff . |
| 17 | So I left in the Bank Holiday and er I went to work at er , the first job , me father worked there . |
| 18 | Now in nineteen er nineteen fifteen , the the of course the War 'd started and I can remember this so well because the day after me birthday er there was a raid , a Zeppelin raid on and I saw this Zeppelin and that day the thirty first of January nineteen fifteen when this raid was , I wen I went to work at six in the morning and I finished work at quarter to nine at night . |
| 19 | where I went to work down there and in a month they put , it was amongst a shop of about sixteen men and they all had separate orders and the men had got little lads working for them , you know . |
| 20 | ‘ I was in the house until Chris arrived around ten , then I went to work in the little field behind the house where we grow our vegetables ; I was there until nearly one . |
| 21 | Well I went to work on the Saturday morning at six and we were dredging until half past twelve , then we would , then do repairs till five o'clock at night and then five o'clock at night , when the other crew had gone home , when I start to stay there then from five o'clock Saturday night till Monday morning six o'clock all the time just to keep watch on the dredger , I used to sleep mind you during part of the time and erm used to have a big old tortoise stove down the cabin and make good fire . |
| 22 | So I went to work to the old market place in the high street when it was an old market an open market you know where McKays is now , McKays whatever . |
| 23 | When it was an old fashion open market and erm I went to work there on the fruit and vegetable stall . |
| 24 | At the time er when I was a firearms instructor er that was the job that I did every day I went to work either firearms training or firearms operations . |
| 25 | Well I went to , erm they would n't let me go to work on the aircraft so I left and I went to work and the Walsall Electric Company , it was within Walsall and I was there when V E day happened and er a pal of mine said he knew where I could get this job and oh it was travelling about which I enjoyed and er I , I went then to work for Elwells I was there until I went in the army , but they were very much heavy transport and in those days the opencast mining started happening as well and we were taking diggers about bulldozers and tractors , scrapers for the opencast mining and I remember , in the bad winter of forty-seven , they , they took up a big part of Park , trees and everything and they never found a bit of coal and yet when started levelling off at Darleston , for Bentley Garden Village as it was then called , er they were getting coal out and people were going up with prams , barrows and everything and fetching it all out it was only being levelled for building work , and fetching coal , natural coal off Bentley Common the erm I 've wandering off away from the airport a bit have n't I ? |
| 26 | I probably could , it depends if it 's got real orange in cos when I went to work at Lockwoods at Lymestock |
| 27 | Oh I so I went to work yesterday nearly killed me ! |
| 28 | There were there were four there this morning when I went to work . |
| 29 | but , I , when I was in Stockport I went to work at that tailor 's shop |
| 30 | But she feared that when she returned to work at the unit , the problems she had complained about would still be there . |