Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] to work " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not return to work until was 18 months so I was able to see him cut his first tooth , take his first step and many other monumental firsts . |
| 2 | The company 's response was to issue notice to the original 40 that if they did n't return to work they 'd all be sacked . |
| 3 | ‘ I did n't go to work thinking about the Nobel Prize . |
| 4 | And one did n't go to work , one went on watch ; pulling the blackout curtains was called darkening ship ; and no one went to the lavatory , they went to the heads ! |
| 5 | Then he did n't go to work for two days . |
| 6 | If they did n't want the coal they did n't go to work . |
| 7 | She did n't go to work today . |
| 8 | Oh his very calm , very calm , and I 'm still going to work , I did n't go to work while , I went too work while he was in hospital , and when he first came out . |
| 9 | Full skirts — goodness knows how many petticoats made walking very hard , so all this almost enforced leisure upon them , and this was again part of the duty of the woman to show that she did n't need to work , she did n't in fact even have to lift a finger because the man or her servants would do all this for her . |
| 10 | They voted unanimously to return to work . |
| 11 | You know , the decision whether we were gon na go back to work because of these threatening letters was taken by the forty well fifty members of the lodge , so in effect I was sacked by people who had since returned to work , but you know that 's how it should be . |
| 12 | The rapid returners , where three-quarters struck at the outset , but by mid-November only 10 per cent had not returned to work . |
| 13 | During continuing negotiations with mediating union officials , the government threatened on Aug. 26 to dismiss strikers if they had not returned to work by 8 am on Aug. 28 . |
| 14 | During continuing negotiations with mediating union officials , the government threatened on Aug. 26 to dismiss strikers if they had not returned to work by 8 am on Aug. 28 . |
| 15 | He went sick in September and had not returned to work since . |
| 16 | He went sick in September and had not returned to work since . |
| 17 | Julia , who had just returned to work after major brain surgery , was given the three-times-a-week slot Focus on Britain in the revamped News at Ten . |