Example sentences of "have work " in BNC.

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31 As you saw fit to remind me before , you do have work to do , the same as I have .
32 ‘ If there 's nothing else , Mr Burns , I really do have work to do , ’ she said at last , reaching for one of the ledgers .
33 Perth Jazz Extravaganza will rave at the Jazz Bank from 26-30 April , and although major art exhibitions have had to be cancelled because of the recent disastrous flooding , many local artists will have work on show .
34 The harsh reality is that those who are fortunate enough to have work will need to make sacrifices for the sake of those who have not .
35 Detective Inspector Rex Carpenter told the inquest that the builders had knocked on Mr and Mrs Wilkins ' door and persuaded them to have work done on their home .
36 But of course we were very strongly against it really but er , because th you know we 'd been inundated with all these marvellous ideas of this progress and it 's all for the best and everything , but it does n't seemed to have work does it really ?
37 This Act enabled LEAs to arrange for children under school leaving age to have work experience as part of their education in the last year of compulsory schooling .
38 They were willing to tie wages to output by various systems of ‘ piecework ’ , which seem to have spread during our period , and to point out that the workers had best be thankful to have work at all , since there was a large reserve army outside , waiting for their jobs .
39 ‘ I do n't like tae drink too much when I 've work tae go tae . ’
40 ‘ Now , if you do n't mind , I 've work to do . ’
41 I 've work to do . ’
42 I just do n't know what was wrong with it , I 've work , Jason said Ja we a subject turned to what he wore in bed Ja and Jason said nothing , right but he said when it 's winter I wear my t-shirt and the pants and I cuddle up to my glow worm and we was all taking the mickey out of his glow worm , right so I 've come home and I read the paper and I 'll see glow worm in it , so I cut it out and give it to him and he stuck it up in the factory !
43 I said well what you do in your private life it 's up to you if you want to get drunk and you want to spend money then that 's fine but once you step over that clock tower I said and you start interfering with my work it 's a different thing , I said well I 've and I 've just said nothing because although you ai n't worked right , at least you 've sort of you 've work in this factory sort of in the morning , you 've got over it but
44 He would have liked to have made a run for Mexico but he had work to do , and there was n't a chance of their surviving that long a race against the hurricane .
45 Lack of time was one factor , for many women now had work outside the home as well as family responsibilities .
46 George Oaks had been cared for and had work provided , first by his parents and later , by his elder brother .
47 A higher proportion of blacks were unemployed ; and of those who had work , the great majority were in unskilled and lower-paid jobs .
48 Romerez , McDougall and Smith all had work commitments , whilst Jason Pratt and Darren Twink were fulfilling their community service orders .
49 He said he had work to do .
50 All the same , he had work to do .
51 After breakfast Stephen had work to do , so Christina took James and Elaine to the small rented cottage on Sunset Ridge .
52 Cadfael went out with him only into the herb garden , for he still had work to do here .
53 He began to walk faster , as if he had remembered something and had work to do .
54 British Coal regarded the £1m campaign as of such importance that Hoare Wilkins presented to , and had work approved by , the board itself , through public relations director Michael Green .
55 Often in the past he had tried to keep her in bed in the morning , but always she had pushed off his sleep-drugged advances with a brusque reminder that she had work to do , stubbornly shutting her mind to the tenderness of a few hours before .
56 We chatted a bit , had a drink or two , and he left at half-past nine — said he had work to do in his office . ’
57 It might well be that some of them had work as servants , or in agriculture — but there would be strong competition for the latter , for quite apart from the regular farm labourers there were a considerable number of workmen not as fully employed at the mine as perhaps they would have wished .
58 ‘ You had work to do , and there were important files and papers that you needed . ’
59 Dr Neil also had his evening off from his practice on Wednesday , but after lunch he had vanished into the surgery , on the pretext that he had work to do there , but in reality to escape McAllister 's siren call , which had unconsciously grown stronger over the previous week .
60 I sup erm at that time was there a a a a lot of men who had work in the quarries
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