Example sentences of "[verb] to work a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he has to week before he gets any money he has to work a week in arrears , you know , they they |
| 2 | Technicians walked out nine days ago when Simon King was suspended for refusing to work a machine blacked by his union . |
| 3 | It formed part of a package including a 6 per cent pay rise over one year beginning on June 1 , supplemented by one-off payments to cover April and May , and it was agreed that 18 per cent of the workers in a plant would be allowed to volunteer to work a 40-hour week in the interests of flexibility . |
| 4 | You 'd have had to work a lot harder if I had n't been around to help with those locks and cook your food , brew endless cups of coffee . |
| 5 | After a while the gentle rocking as they moved smoothly over the dark water , the beauty and romance of the night , began to work a subtle magic , and unconsciously she relaxed . |
| 6 | ‘ No , but I like to work a certain amount of time per day . |
| 7 | East Germans who stay in work will have to work a lot harder as tough private bosses take over flabby state-run factories . |
| 8 | Once hired , he might have to work a 15-hour stretch , perhaps into the night . |
| 9 | Those who will have to work a little bit harder to reach their full potential , coming from east of the Rockies where rugby is a spring and summer game , are Alberta scrum-half Tom Liddle , Newfoundland flanker or no.8 Rod Snow and the Ontario trio of Charron , Lougheed and Scott MacKinnon , a fullback or centre and brother of Gordon . |
| 10 | We may have to work a bit on Europe after a recent P.G.A . |
| 11 | I 'll have to work a bit harder to make up for lost time when I get there . |
| 12 | Or is it that you 're worried about having to work a bit harder for the grand wages I give you … wages that 's been strangled out of me by that bloody woman o ’ yours ? ’ |
| 13 | He says this morning one of our postmen was asked to work a different shift to cover for a colleague who 'd gone sick . |
| 14 | Men , on the other hand , it was suggested , preferred to work a normal day and were not very fond of shift work . |
| 15 | But you 're all going to have to work a darned sight harder . |
| 16 | It 's no use going home on Friday night and going erm , I 've only got five appointments , you 're self-employed , it means you 're going to have to work a couple of hours extra . |
| 17 | When , in 1808 , the cotton weavers were forced to work a sixteen-hour day for a subsistence wage , they complained bitterly : " there never was a time before the present when the workman could not live by his trade " . |
| 18 | I had to work a bit to keep up with him — the path is not as straight as the road ; also I had to be careful not to make a noise . |
| 19 | From Winnipeg — where he had to work a bootlegging ruse to get a drink — he hitched to New York to stay with some friends of Philip : they were in Vermont and so he busked a few days in Manhattan , perhaps even sang for his supper in Greenwich Village . |
| 20 | At this time the villagers had to work a number of days for the Bishop and among their duties , they had to send one man from each household to pick the grapes from his vines . |
| 21 | She never had to work a day in her life . ’ |
| 22 | Duff had to work a lot harder for his five-set victory over the 1985 world champion , Terry Sullivan . |
| 23 | would see that you had to work a bit |
| 24 | These authorities would contract with doctors who wished to work a night shift . |
| 25 | When young loose ferrets are first introduced to rabbiting I prefer to work a small burrow system and use a single ferret fitted with a transmitter . |
| 26 | She got up stiffly from the table , with one last look at the scowling form of the man trying to work a way out of his hopeless situation , then walked slowly , limping a little , over the scratched glass floor of the room to the bright chill of the balcony . |
| 27 | ‘ Some people are told they have to work a nine to five gig or be the trendiest person on earth or whatever . |
| 28 | But saying that if you want a decent wage in here you have to work a lot of overtime . |
| 29 | buses be ordered to work a route Mitcham — Sutton — Belmont , covering the whole of the discarded tram route . |
| 30 | It runs to six handwritten pages and described the basic methods of working of inclined planes , pointing out the saving of water , the small amount of power required to work a balanced lift , an it also included an estimate of the cost . |