Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] to work " in BNC.

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1 Could it be relied on to work well in the United Kingdom ?
2 It is considered better to work , over a period of time , with the family as well as the child , providing whatever support , training or care appear to be appropriate at different stages of development .
3 If there had been I would n't have come here to work , and you know that fact quite well , so forget your so-called ‘ rights ’ , ’ she finished scornfully .
4 The artist was one of the so called Bevin boys , who were drafted in to work as miners during the last war .
5 Within days he was back in London , reporting to his Executive that the strike was hopeless and that the members should be got back to work .
6 Yesterday he said : ‘ I 'm pleased I 've got back to work as I was getting bored at home .
7 Childhood was followed by hard physical labour in local factories where workers were locked in to work or , if they arrived late , locked out .
8 To his credit , Lord Whitelaw having been forced to bring in the short sharp shock , dropped it when it was proved not to work .
9 I was brought up to work hard for my country .
10 I was brought up to work in the garden with my father ; we had to grow vegetables ourselves because money was tight .
11 FIVE cool businessmen stumbled from the wreckage of their crashed plane … and smartly stepped off to work .
12 They have all gone off to work or to look for work , leaving behind the old , the disabled , the women and the children .
13 Since April , the United Mine Workers of America have been on strike here against the Pittston Company : 1,700 miners have been out for seven months and , despite intimidation , no one has gone back to work .
14 They might not be in , Mum will 've gone to the supermarket and Dad 'll have gone back to work .
15 Using the hypothetical examples above , for instance , this is how it might work out : skilled employment ( 4 ) the top possible score : employment duration — she has just gone back to work ( 1 ) ; housing — she has had to move to a smaller flat(l) so has n't been there long ( 0 ) ; she does have a bank account ( 4 ) ; but is separated ( 0 ) ; and quite young ( 2 ) .
16 And it 's quite true , I was there about four years and they always took stock before January the first , so that after Christmas came an anomaly , we 'd had a Christmas holiday and gone back to work .
17 And then gone back to work next morning .
18 The granddaughter I look after because my , my daugh youngest daughter 's gone back to work .
19 No there are some er lads gone back to work yes they got children they got mortgages we realize that .
20 There are some gone back to work they have n't got all that heavy obligations but there are lads on the line which have got very heavy complications and children and they have stuck it out you know .
21 By Paul Byrne chief reporter A GROUP of British Rail workers who were being paid thousands of pounds to do nothing have finally gone back to work .
22 And he 's only relatively recently gone back to work .
23 Well she did work full time in London , but she said that was to much for her so she 's , she did n't work at all , now she 's gone back to work three days a week in Orpington I think .
24 Cos I do n't know what state , I do n't know whether Sally 's gone back to work yet or not .
25 Grant 's been off , but he 's gone back to work today .
26 I think mind , a lot of the problem is because women have gone back to work is n't it ?
27 Out at Puddingdale in the same year , Mr and Mrs Quiverful struggled to feed fourteen children on £400 a year , and it would have outraged all Barsetshire had Mrs Quiverful gone out to work .
28 Because the women in my family and most families in Scotland had always gone out to work .
29 Er and this this case the there was a fire in a flat , the chap had gone out to work , we did n't know he 'd gone out to work , so we broke First of all we informed the fire brigade was on the way , we broke down the door , quick look in the flat , best possible way we could look , and the fire brigade turned up and dealt with the flat .
30 Er and this this case the there was a fire in a flat , the chap had gone out to work , we did n't know he 'd gone out to work , so we broke First of all we informed the fire brigade was on the way , we broke down the door , quick look in the flat , best possible way we could look , and the fire brigade turned up and dealt with the flat .
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