Example sentences of "[noun] and [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 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 .
5 We would urge staff to stop this silliness and return to work . ’
6 They moved into a second floor flat , so Dawn now had to run her own home and travel to work each day .
7 She then wrapped the baby up , left him lying in a wood and returned to work , Aberdeen Sheriff Court heard yesterday .
8 After producing the Crowther Report , the Central Advisory Council was reconstituted under the chairmanship of John Newsom and set to work .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 They could live in pleasant suburbs and travel to work ; they could take off to previously distant areas for their holidays .
14 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 .
15 She fetched her ladder and shears from the garden shed and set to work .
16 She rolls her ‘ office ’ out of a parking lot , pulls out her chair , props up an umbrella and goes to work .
17 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 .
18 While fitzAlan hefted the grey 's hoof and set to work , she glanced about , absently patting Chalon 's velvety muzzle .
19 breakdown in communications and Permit to Work system at shift changeover
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 in the morning and go to work
23 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 .
24 He glanced around , then took a nail file from his pocket and set to work on the padlock .
25 She sat down on the floor and went to work .
26 They bought a set of plans , hired space at a boat builders ' yard and set to work .
27 Valerie Mitchell lived in the next road and travelled to work on the same bus as Paula .
28 I took my make-up out of my bag , leaned close to the mirror and set to work on my face .
29 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 .
30 Some women choose to take maternity leave and return to work relatively soon after the birth of their child , either through financial necessity or from choice .
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