Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] to work " in BNC.
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| 1 | Me , who never read a clock or went to work in my life . |
| 2 | They always had money because they left school early and went to work , mainly as builders and labourers . |
| 3 | Pepita grew into a fine , beautiful woman and went to work for the banana shippers as her father had done until he retired at sixty-two . |
| 4 | He woke up every day and went to work at the ice-cream parlour , but he began to hate the taste , the sight , the very thought of it . |
| 5 | I turned it over to the studio and went to work on The Roots of Heaven , and apparently John Wayne took over after I left . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , lor' , ’ muttered Dolly , and went to work with gritted teeth and the knife . |
| 7 | She sat down on the floor and went to work . |
| 8 | I shut my eyes then and went to work . |
| 9 | Hatch resigned his appointment in 1892 and went to work as a mining engineer in Johannesburg . |
| 10 | He had little schooling , and went to work at the age of twelve , apprenticed to an uncle in a chemist and druggist business in Chesterfield . |
| 11 | The next morning , November 7th , she got up and went to work . |
| 12 | He Saw The Light seven or eight years ago , and went to work for the Verfassung-schutz at Ehrenfeld . |
| 13 | Detective-Constable Barnes , large , rustic , intelligent and benign , put down his spade and went to work lovingly with a soft brush on the exposed uprights of the flue , whisking away loose , moist soil that abandoned its hold with revealing readiness . |
| 14 | VS Naipaul 's grandfather , succumbing to the pressure of a labour recruiter , left his home village in India and went to work in a sugar factory in Trinidad . |
| 15 | But before she did that she would have to become famous at something else so that it would be extra sad when she renounced the world and went to work in a leper colony . |
| 16 | And she used to sleep in and then a little bit after that she went to live in Liverpool with my grandmother and went to work there so s I I s I was the sort of erm eldest one at home then you know so I felt as if I was more or less responsible for looking after my mam sort of thing . |
| 17 | He left the Empress Works in 1911 and went to work for Norman Crossland , as mechanic in charge . |
| 18 | But our to avoid that situation I left and went to work with which kept me in the Edinburgh branch and within three or four weeks I stood for the local organizer and had not been successful . |
| 19 | got up and went to work and had this bloody awful throat and I thought , |
| 20 | But then , when I le left you and went to work I 'd eat those pasties and crisps and then perhaps I 'm still hungry , sometimes I 'd go and have a Chinese all at the wrong time , that 's what all that is in n it ? |
| 21 | And er I got involved on national registration and er , on one occasion , we were working , we 'd got a deadline and we were working through the weekend , and my wife came to pick me up at what she thought was a reasonable time , at one o'clock on Saturday , found she was given a cup of tea and set to work , and we finished , going home about midnight . . |
| 22 | Valerie Mitchell lived in the next road and travelled to work on the same bus as Paula . |