Example sentences of "she [vb past] to work " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she feared that when she returned to work at the unit , the problems she had complained about would still be there . |
| 2 | A few days after she returned to work , ‘ David ’ telephoned her office . |
| 3 | It became clear she was on holiday , and when she returned to work a disciplinary hearing was held and she was sacked . |
| 4 | But when she returned to work , NatWest bosses told her : ‘ Sorry , you 're surplus to requirements . ’ |
| 5 | Weak but feeling , as she put it , ‘ lighter ’ , she returned to work . |
| 6 | ‘ It was like them pictures of Hell we used to get in Sunday school , ’ she told the other women when she returned to work two days later . |
| 7 | She stood on the threshold of that world when war broke out and she went to work in a factory ; it began to open up for her when a photographer first spotted her and the camera became her true love . |
| 8 | Dorothy Two cried all day and cried all night , and Margaret 's only respite was when she went to work , to the factory-cleaning job she had had to take . |
| 9 | Eight o'clock in the morning , and if she went to work then he hoped still to be in time to catch her before she locked the front door and shut out the intrusion of a man from the Service . |
| 10 | For several afternoons a week she went to work at the Young England kindergarten run by Victoria Wilson and Kay Seth-Smith in St Saviour 's church hall in Pimlico . |
| 11 | Early in the 1890s she went to work under Mrs Hugh Price Hughes at the West London Mission . |
| 12 | Returning to London , and influenced by Ruskin and Octavia Hill , she went to work as a volunteer at a number of slum-housing projects around Marylebone , where her contributions ranged from carpentry to moral tutoring and advising the poor of the district on careers , and attempting to lead them away from the evils of alcohol . |
| 13 | That winter she went to work at another farm , where Marian was working . |
| 14 | She intended to drive to Gloucestershire straight from the office and before she went to work she wanted Oliver and his property out of her flat . |
| 15 | She went to work on Friday morning having worked until midnight the night before , and giving serious consideration to finding another job . |
| 16 | Another local woman said : ‘ Angela always called in on her mother before she went to work in the mornings . |
| 17 | She said he had seemed normal when she went to work . |
| 18 | As she slept in her Italian-designed tube steel bed with the iron-grey duvet , she felt sure that Steve in the room across the corridor must know who was in there with her , and as she went to work next day , she felt sure that everyone must see what she was dragging with her . |
| 19 | The conversation carried on for half an hour and then they parted company as she went to work and he went off to his job . |
| 20 | You remember when Ula was in , and she went to work |
| 21 | We were told that she set to work ‘ editing ’ the crazed philosopher 's work to make it more Nazi , and that Elisabeth had a strong and malign influence on the growth of National Socialism . |
| 22 | At once , she set to work and made such a remarkable copy of a Michelangelo that she was sent , when ten years old , to the Dublin School of Art where she learnt drawing and sculpture . |
| 23 | Now that the party was over , she set to work to remove all traces of it , because she could n't bear the aftermath of revelry . |
| 24 | She took off the wire that held the cork in position and put the bottle beside her , then she set to work . |
| 25 | She set to work on Emily 's shoes , pride insisted that she finish the job she had begun even if she was never paid for it . |
| 26 | He agreed , and she set to work . |
| 27 | She sighed to herself and smiled to herself at Auntie 's mistake ; and then she set to work with Auntie 's sewing-machine . |
| 28 | She set to work with a vengeance , losing herself in the difficult task of making all those fiercely vivid images of him that were swirling around in her head tangible . |
| 29 | Walking back to Rebecca 's cluttered desk , she set to work . |
| 30 | However , he was quite correct in assuming she would not contact the person who had phoned her until she was sure he was well out of the way , so she set to work in sorting out the various tasks to be done . |