Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [prep] work " in BNC.
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| 1 | of perhaps my characteristics cos I tend to go in to work at eight o'clock just before I write any more in and I do have to clear everything before I even start the day . |
| 2 | but it 's , I , I do n't want to go down to work for hours Chris . |
| 3 | No matter what your business commitments , it is far more sensible to have one day at home in bed to recover from the worst of the virus than to struggle in to work , extending the recuperation period enormously and giving the virus to everyone else . |
| 4 | That we would wait for our mother to come home from work with ‘ Lucky Packets ’ full of sherbet , that most of our childhood had been outdoors and here we were inside , with our dad home again , our dad who we had n't seen for four years , here we were having crossed the equator with nine suitcases , where flying fish leapt from the sea , to be in this place . |
| 5 | Instead of having to come home from work and worry about wrapping up the Christmas presents , or writing letters to friends , or having a long conversation with someone in the family who needs a bit of support , and fitting all that in after the children have gone to bed and the supper 's been washed up and you really ought to be reading papers for tomorrow 's meeting , I know I have a chunk of time when I can get on with doing all that . |
| 6 | To come home from work and sit in front of the TV all evening does not make us feel better . |
| 7 | Marty and Jean who ran Granny Takes A Trip were mates of Malcolm 's and they all used to meet up after work in the pub Sometimes Nick would be there too and we got talking to him . |
| 8 | Was n't there some talk about Tricia wanting to come back to work ? |
| 9 | Before we had we bought a house and so I really had to come back to work because we needed my wages and erm the creche was just being brought out so I knew there was a chance of coming back . |
| 10 | When your sort of body 's running down anyway , you know it 's it 's a few hours after dinner time , it 's not quite time to go home from work . |
| 11 | I was told to go off to work . |
| 12 | Women and girls were not expected to go off after work and sing in choirs or play games — they were expected to be at home catching up on household chores . |
| 13 | If one was to look forward to work , it needed to be stimulating and enjoyable , but precisely what was meant by this could not quite be imagined . |
| 14 | erm we did n't have a holiday for that but we used , when it was Willenhall er our mums knew that we should be like going home and we used to go straight from work to the Wakes you see , which was a , it was really a good wake then but then you 'd got to walk home . |
| 15 | But nor did I want to go out to work . |
| 16 | When I first came my husband did not want me to go out to work . |
| 17 | There would be no need for her to go out to work . |
| 18 | If you happen to go out to work , a message like that from your boss would , I 'm sure , bring a broad smile to your face . |
| 19 | In general , this is probably because the pressure on boys and young men to go out to work is much greater . |
| 20 | When roles become more segregated , as they do after the birth of a baby , even when both parents continue to go out to work , people are less able to avoid their envy of the opposite sex and of the baby who receives so much care and attention . |
| 21 | If you 're poor , your women ca n't be secluded , they have to go out to work . |
| 22 | Thus the death of his father is not an event that impinges on a child only at one particular point : it may go on producing shock waves through its continuing effect on the mother , which in turn may bring about a different relationship with the child ; in addition there may be economic difficulties as a result of which the mother has to go out to work , a new home has to be found , and an altogether new lifestyle adopted . |
| 23 | I had to go out to work . |
| 24 | The government has failed to provide adequate day-care facilities for children to enable women to go out to work . |
| 25 | During the early twentieth century and increasingly during the inter-war years the ideology of motherhood was reinforced legislatively by the marriage bar , which was applied chiefly to professional women and which served firmly to delineate the world of married women from that of men at a time when it was becoming widely acceptable for single middle class girls and women to go out to work . |
| 26 | But no in those days if you had children er young children at any rate you , you , you never expected to go out to work at all . |
| 27 | She would have to go out to work , it appeared , to see him through college . |
| 28 | The crisis is hitting so hard that most of the people are unemployed , and you see children begging in the streets or forced to go out to work . |
| 29 | Well no , no I , I , I 'd got a cycle and er the money was very useful to us cos er my husband , he worked on the , on the top of at Parcel he could n't go down , they were n't allowed underneath er because he wore glasses , anyone wearing glasses they were n't allowed underground you see and they had to work on what they call on the surface , and of course the wages were n't , were n't much and er I was glad to go out to work and er and I , I eventually I had a cycle and I used to cycle to Squires and back you know , and erm it was , it was very very useful indeed the money I , I , I earned there . |
| 30 | Oh er of course they erm , they did n't believe in married women working and er they thought a married woman should be at home you see , well I had n't got any family then you see , until er after oh we 'd been married a number of years when we had , when I had my first baby and er and then I had the other one pretty quickly and er then I was glad to go out to work again when they were school age , they were n't left unattended at all er one , the elder one looked after the one , we did n't live , we lived in then but erm there was n't any pressure for me to stay at home , it was with my husband 's consent , because he knew it was helping out because rent man 's wages were n't very good then , and erm he er he finished , he finished at the pits you see and he got a job rent collecting , and he er he used to do miles he 'd cycle part of the way and then er he 'd perhaps leave his cycle somewhere and call back for it , but he used to do all the and all round there , there 's a place called and then er a lot of places er he used to do the old , is this , is this on , erm he used to do round , round the top there there were some slums there . |