Example sentences of "to work [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then the timekeeper could mark down that they were present , they 'd gone to work that day you see ? |
| 2 | He was n't allowed to work that day , so people turned up in a white shirt and tie and looking smart , they had to wear uniforms even a cap but unfortunately nowadays , although a lot of the I have seen quite a few people their uniform has changed since I left , but erm they do come to work in very very casual work now . |
| 3 | The City Chambers have been booked for a cyclists ’ breakfast and we hope to encourage as many people as possible to bike to work that day . |
| 4 | So I 've told them I 'm not coming to work that day . |
| 5 | However , the best way to keep yourself in cheques and your customers in check is to have a follow-up plan and to work that plan . |
| 6 | It seems to work that way . |
| 7 | ON HIS WAY TO WORK that Monday , Alistair sat slumped in his bus seat , limp with ambition and neglect . |
| 8 | I looked down and suddenly realised I had forgotten to bring my own umbrella to work that morning . |
| 9 | There was clearly no point in arguing with the man any longer , she consoled herself , wearily removing her short-sleeved ivory silk blouse and the skirt of the pin-striped navy suit in which she 'd gone to work that morning . |
| 10 | We used to work eight hour shifts — morning , evening and night — and of these the night duties were at the same time the most boring and the most exciting , depending on whether there was anything ‘ on ’ . |
| 11 | A bad custom has prevailed lately in our mines in general which is that the men work only six hours whereas they used to work eight hours … we entered into a resolution to insist on the men working eight hours in future , instead of six and relieve in place . |
| 12 | The rich tend to work 18-hour days , and some of them burn themselves out at bond desks and on trading floors before they are 30 . |
| 13 | ‘ When I go off to work each day , ’ he said slowly , ‘ Dorothy comes out to the car with me to say goodbye . |
| 14 | In the meantime all we have is the popular version that Blake was befriended by a 32-year-old Irishman , Sean Bourke , who at the time was coming to the end of a seven-year sentence and was living in the prison hostel just inside the perimeter wall of the prison but allowed to go out to work each day on parole . |
| 15 | The self-same people who journey to work each day on the M25 at rush hour , 90 mph nose to tail in visibility that would ground a PPL without an IMC rating and never bat an eyelid . |
| 16 | I did n't want the long journey in to work each day so I let it to Professor Wendell . |
| 17 | Prisoners at Gloucester , some of whom are allowed out to work each day , say life inside is reasonable . |
| 18 | After all , it was maintained , who was to say that the Dunstaple treatment was not just beginning to work each time as McNab began to apply his treatment ? |
| 19 | It is most commonly apparent where staff are employed to provide night cover only and therefore contracted to work specific hours to provide one , two or three night 's cover per week . |
| 20 | Following the OPEC price rise , the oil companies preferred not to work pre-1973 wells very intensely . |
| 21 | So if the offer is made to you to work shorter hours , think carefully about these aspects , and what it will do to your pension . |
| 22 | Often they have to work 12 hours a day to fulfil contracts . |
| 23 | Nor did he tell him that a German was now packing up his quarters , having refused to work another day . |
| 24 | Firms equate the marginal value of labour to the gross wage rate , but suppliers of labour equate the after-tax wage rate to the marginal value of the leisure that they sacrifice in order to work another hour . |
| 25 | The supply curve SS tells us the marginal value of the leisure being sacrificed in order to work another hour , the marginal social cost of extra work . |
| 26 | She may be able to work different hours for a period of time while her burden is shared by another member of the family or a neighbour . |
| 27 | A welder , for instance , may not recover sufficient balance or hand control to go back to welding , but he may be able to work light machinery . |
| 28 | However , in this instance you do the company a disservice , since the harmoniser patches you refer to are intended to work this way . |
| 29 | I was still trying to work this girl out . |
| 30 | ‘ I need to work this weekend . |