Example sentences of "he [verb] to work " in BNC.
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| 1 | He goes to work abroad for Herbert , in the firm in which he had earlier secretly bought his friend a partnership , and returns after many years , meeting Estella , who had been wretchedly married to Bentley Drummle and who is now widowed , in the ruins of Miss Havisham 's house . |
| 2 | He goes to work . |
| 3 | He goes to work , and when he arrives he gets it working ; when he leaves , at the end of the day , it sleeps until the next morning . |
| 4 | ‘ He 's got black hair and he goes to work but I do n't know where , and he wears this blue thing over his clothes . |
| 5 | Anyway he goes to work in the morning . |
| 6 | So instead of going this afternoon I 'm going this morning while Jim 's at home before he goes to work . |
| 7 | And it got , in the end , actually , if I was , if I had to do something that was urgent or I had to go somewhere I used to have to say to her something like , you know , erm oh I better get on , I got a lot to do this morning , or I 'm goi I 've to be shopping and be back in time to cook Jim 's dinner or something like that cos he 's starting , oh I 've got ta have his dinner ready at twelve before he goes to work and if I really was pushed otherwise she would have come in every day . |
| 8 | Yeah you 're talking about a dream , because er in my mind I can hear George now in a bar lounge I walked in , he was with two of his mates and we got talking , he said here 's my , this is m he used to say Chip then , you know , George did this is my young Chip he said he goes to work in the middle of the night . |
| 9 | Well he goes to work at half seven so if you go before that you 'll be alright . |
| 10 | He was immediately given extended leave to undergo psychiatric therapy but refused to cooperate with the medical staff and was retired from Delta at his own request a month after he returned to work . |
| 11 | He returned to work in September but , in the following month , was forced to have most of the remainder of his teeth extracted : he had now entered his sixtieth year , and was suffering some of the inconveniences of age . |
| 12 | Then he fell ill and for several months was unfit for any work : the cost of medicines , the increase in debts , his feebleness when , too early , he returned to work , combined to make him look , a man in the stable-yard had said , ‘ like a living skeletal ’ . |
| 13 | A long illness caused him to relinquish his management role , but he returned to work as scientific adviser until his retirement in 1963 . |
| 14 | By the time when he began to work most intensively on what would become The Waste Land , Eliot was neither god nor martyr . |
| 15 | He went to work for an organisation that combined the roles of an issuing house and a conglomerate . |
| 16 | Instead he went to work for Famous Players-Lasky , first as a subtitle writer and then as a screenwriter . |
| 17 | He went to work in the local cotton mill where his father was an ‘ overlooker ’ . |
| 18 | I have not seen Brian Way for a few years now , since he went to work in America , but if he is continually developing his philosophy and practice at the rate Dorothy Heathcote is refining hers , then there is the added danger that anything written about them is out of date as it leaves the press . |
| 19 | In Robert Roberts 's farming family this seems to have been the accepted practice on both sides : later on , as a young farm servant , he went to work for an uncle where his mother 's parents still lived in the farmhouse . |
| 20 | On the day of the overdose Charles and Ann had a row before he went to work , and later Charles came home to find his wife had left him . |
| 21 | The next day he went to work , but found he could not concentrate and returned home without telling anyone . |
| 22 | Then off he went to work in the factory till 6 p.m. once more . |
| 23 | Zoology graduate Nick Coad left the debt when he went to work in the Omo forest three months ago . |
| 24 | The second suspect was a resident of Consett , but on the night in question his wife had given birth to their first child , and the doctor and the midwife both vouched for the fact that the man had never left the house after he came in from work at half-past five until he went to work the next morning , an hour after he had heard his son first cry . |
| 25 | This is expected to be particularly revealing as Mr Camber , a curator at the British Museum before he went to work for Sotheby 's , heard about the hoard from an ex-colleague and became involved in negotiations over it in Switzerland some time before Lord Northampton , presenting himself as the single owner of the treasure , first approached Sotheby 's in 1988 with a view to selling . |
| 26 | His neighbour always wore grey overalls when he went to work . |
| 27 | And for soon after that me father had to give up the mine be because of his health and he went to work at the depot er were the bus depot and he worked in the battery house where they made all the batteries up , charged the batteries for the buses , looked after the electrical side there was electrician , he were n't , me father were n't electrician but he was working with electrician but his main job was charging the batteries , putting them on in groups in the , in the er battery house and charging house , to keep all the batteries charged up for all the buses petrol buses tr and trolley buses . |
| 28 | He kept dropping off in their presence because he went to work at three every morning . |
| 29 | Rooting out the cleaning kit for it , he went to work thoughtfully , the letter all but forgotten . |
| 30 | When he went to work that evening Tod left the letters by the front step , encased in a white shoebox on which someone — presumably Irene — had scrawled the words The Hell With You . |