Example sentences of "been [adv prt] [prep] work " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since I 've been back at work , life has been just great . |
| 2 | The decision would probably have gone the other way had 100,000 men not already been back at work , mainly in the more prosperous East and West Midland areas . |
| 3 | If you go back to work before the end of 28 weeks and are then absent again , Statutory Sick Pay will be payable for each period of absence until your 28 weeks ' entitlement has been exhausted , provided you have not been back at work for more than 8 weeks . |
| 4 | Graham Townsend has been back at work for only 4 weeks . |
| 5 | He 's no he 's been back at work , off now , he 's what |
| 6 | He has n't been back to work since Christmas . |
| 7 | I said , well your mum 's been out to work five days a week and you just help |
| 8 | Then , inexplicably , I had been out of work for over a year and my few friends were drifting away . |
| 9 | He had often been out of work during the boy ‘ s early years in the west of Sheffield ‘ where the city meanders in a smokey , greasy straggle of workshops into Rotherham ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ Women lose confidence being out of the labour market , men tend to lose confidence if they 've been out of work ’ , says Michaels . |
| 11 | Just over 4 in 10 ( 42% ) dependent children in 1987 lived in a household where the head had been out of work for two or more years . |
| 12 | Employment Training should be opened up to unemployed people over 50 , irrespective of how long they have been out of work . |
| 13 | MORE than one in five of the 2,329 young people seeking jobs and training in Hampshire have been out of work for more than six months . |
| 14 | In mid-Cornwall , for example , over a third of the male population has been out of work in recent years . |
| 15 | B. If you had been a young person in 1860 , like Jimmy Horsley 's great-grandfather , you might easily have been out of work . |
| 16 | be prepared with positive and well-reasoned responses for negative questions about your age , why you were made redundant , why you have been out of work so long , whether you have lost skills through lack of use , whether you have failed to keep in touch with your original skills |
| 17 | Her father , Ray Shepherd had worked in the shipyard until it closed and her elder brother , Steve , had been out of work since leaving school . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm very disappointed because I 've been out of work since returning from the tour last summer and this contract meant security for my family . ’ |
| 19 | But when people lose their jobs , they now stand a worse than fifty-fifty chance of being out of work for more than three months ( in July 1978 , 53 per cent of those who were registered as unemployed had been out of work for longer than three months ) . |
| 20 | I 've never been out of work and I do n't want to be . |
| 21 | Her husband has been out of work for three years , but her life as the breadwinner was quite unlike his . |
| 22 | He has been out of work for years . |
| 23 | Mrs M. 's husband , a coal-miner , had been out of work for nine months when she applied unsuccessfully for her union card . |
| 24 | He had been out of work for a year and some mates had clubbed up to give him enough money to take a three-week walking holiday on the Pennine Way . |
| 25 | It is this hard core of unemployed — that is , those who have been out of work longest — that makes up a large part of the new underclass . |
| 26 | The first step in achieving this objective is to guarantee a place on Employment Training ( ET ) for everyone who has been out of work for a long period of time . |
| 27 | The proposal is to guarantee a place on ET , or any other training , education , pre-employment course , for those who have been out of work over a set period of time . |
| 28 | Young Martin 's been out of work for a year now , ever since he left school . |
| 29 | After he had been out of work for months his telephone rang and a manager asked to see him . |
| 30 | But you had to have qualified for it by working , see ? end of the week and the only place I ever had one was at and because the foreman approached me , I 'd been out of work and got the job by writing to it , going to the library and it was in one of the London papers , they wanted men for the tool rooms . |