Example sentences of "who [vb past] to work " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beatrix Potter was holidaying in Gloucester when she learned of a local legend about a tailor called John Pritchard … who returned to work on a Monday morning to find an unfinished coat mysteriously completed over the weekend . |
| 2 | In tears , I fetched my father who went to work with a shovel and retrieved most of the contents . |
| 3 | You knew everyone who went to work in the early morning — the chappie who came round on his bike and rod to put out the gas lamps or to light them . |
| 4 | I am sure that the President and his advisors and most of the scientists who went to work on this project had heavy hearts … |
| 5 | The Indian presence in far flung outposts of the Empire , for example , from Malaysia to East Africa , can only be understood in this context , and it is important to note that a tradition of emigration from Jamaica had already developed in the nineteenth century , with 2,000 Jamaicans migrating to build railways in Panama , followed by well over 80,000 who went to work on the first attempt at constructing the Panama Canal in the 1880s . |
| 6 | Doctors and other health workers , who went to work in the zones controlled by the FMLN during the civil war , learnt very effective forms of treatment from the peasants they worked with . |
| 7 | In 1932 it had captured international headlines when the church was attacked by a mob of evangelical bigots who went to work with sledgehammers , wrecking altars and destroying ornaments of which they disapproved ; perhaps the last violent twitch of the Puritan tail on English soil . |
| 8 | Well , they did during the Underground strikes , and I honestly did know a young brat-race type who went to work in the West End on a unicycle . |
| 9 | by woman who went to work |
| 10 | French toddlers have been teaching a Middlesbrough sixth former who went to work in a nursery in France . |
| 11 | The ruling meant that EC citizens who travelled to work in the UK leaving dependents behind in their home country could claim family credit on behalf of their families . |