Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] to work " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as he was satisfied that all was well , he laid back his ears and set to work on the grass . |
| 2 | 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 . . |
| 3 | He says he will learn to be independent , how to drive a car and to go to work , everything a paralysed patient can do these days . |
| 4 | The decision to take time off work or to return to work is complicated and will vary between individuals and at different times . |
| 5 | Parents faced with the choice of caring from their offspring or coming to work would be expected to choose the former . |
| 6 | He apologises for the mess and sets to work clearing books and bottles and brochures off the one cracked settee for us to sit on . |
| 7 | We would urge staff to stop this silliness and return to work . ’ |
| 8 | They moved into a second floor flat , so Dawn now had to run her own home and travel to work each day . |
| 9 | She then wrapped the baby up , left him lying in a wood and returned to work , Aberdeen Sheriff Court heard yesterday . |
| 10 | After producing the Crowther Report , the Central Advisory Council was reconstituted under the chairmanship of John Newsom and set to work . |
| 11 | Er and I remember er er a a very vivid occasion of being on Road , which is close by the er Hucknall Colliery about three o'clock time , when er a couple of these er er people were being escorted back towards the centre of the town , after they 'd done er a day 's work and there were lots and lots of er er er people about , men and women , who were shouting and jeering , at er at er at these at these people , who had been er who had er er violated the union decision and gone to work . |
| 12 | When he found himself in charge of a famous school he seized his opportunity and set to work to instil in the offspring of the ruling classes the personally desirable and politically vital sense of sin . |
| 13 | The person in charge of product development decided to carry out all the modifications simultaneously ( although not forced to by LIFESPAN ) , made a senior programmer the user associated with the DCs and instructed him to activate the DCs on the main package and set to work . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , their collective duty done , his colleagues from the organisation would turn their backs on the smoking chimney and return to work , shaking off the morning 's cold in the warm and reassuring office routines that marked their days . |
| 15 | They could live in pleasant suburbs and travel to work ; they could take off to previously distant areas for their holidays . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She fetched her ladder and shears from the garden shed and set to work . |
| 18 | She rolls her ‘ office ’ out of a parking lot , pulls out her chair , props up an umbrella and goes to work . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | While fitzAlan hefted the grey 's hoof and set to work , she glanced about , absently patting Chalon 's velvety muzzle . |
| 21 | One trusts that its astronomers were n't quite the size of Patrick Moore or getting to work could have been problematic . |
| 22 | breakdown in communications and Permit to Work system at shift changeover |
| 23 | Once you feel more able to control symptoms we can set about confronting situations that you have been avoiding , such as meeting people and going to work . |
| 24 | He became quite carried away as with dexterous strokes he carved a particularly exquisite right breast and set to work on the delicate fluting of the ribs . |
| 25 | in the morning and go to work |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He glanced around , then took a nail file from his pocket and set to work on the padlock . |
| 28 | People with schizophrenia who are discharged from hospital to live with relatives who are over-critical , disapproving or who express a high level of anxiety and tension , are more likely to suffer early relapse than those returning to a neutral or tolerant atmosphere , and spending less time in daily contact with other members of the family , possibly by attending a day centre or going to work , seems to help some sufferers to cope with an emotionally charged home environment . |
| 29 | She sat down on the floor and went to work . |
| 30 | They bought a set of plans , hired space at a boat builders ' yard and set to work . |