Example sentences of "they [verb] for work " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advertisement pages of The Scotsman in the golden Edwardian afternoon carried long columns of vacancies for parlourmaids , cooks and housemaids ( so it is not surprising , though it must have been a source of irritation , that male printers hostile to women entering the trade often urged them to look for work " in service " ) . |
| 2 | Their father , Oliver P. Bernard , the theatre designer who had worked at Covent Garden and the Boston Opera House and who had also designed Art Deco interiors for Lyons restaurants , had died insolvent , thereby terminating his sons ' education and obliging them to look for work . |
| 3 | Then four Roman Catholic workmen were gunned down as they arrived for work at houses in Castlerock . |
| 4 | The Tsar refused many motions and the Duma pressed him , but they arrived for work one morning to find the Duma had been closed . |
| 5 | A man was shot dead and three others injured when gunmen fired as they arrived for work in East Belfast . |
| 6 | to start off and then erm , I think they went for work permits or something |
| 7 | Margaret was in the Air Force for some years but I could n't say what they did for work . |
| 8 | crash , bang , wallop , gone what they did for work today a little bit of exercise , desk work a lot of exercise , exercise . |
| 9 | Teachers were prevented from joining any Polish cultural or Catholic societies , and German language teachers were given a special bonus if they volunteered for work in Polish-speaking districts . |