Example sentences of "to work [adv] for [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The way I was doing the deal , everyone was going to have to work together for a long time . ’
2 After all , we 're going to have to work together for the next week or so , so maybe it will help iron out the problems we keep having . ’
3 We decided to try to get to know one another better , seeing as we 're forced to work together for the next week or so . ’
4 The industry still has problems but I sense an increasing willingness for its component parts to work together for the common good .
5 He did n't know if they would succeed , but it showed that , even here , there were people prepared to work together for the common good .
6 We will continue to work strenuously for a political agreement which is acceptable to all the parties involved in the talks which the Secretary of State has had during the past year with the main constitutional parties in Northern Ireland the Government of the Republic of Ireland .
7 Their manifesto says that the government ‘ will continue to work strenuously for a political solution acceptable to all parties ’ , which is to say for a gravitational system in which apples fall upwards .
8 Five years ago , increasingly concerned about the environment , he decided to work directly for an environmental group .
9 Quelch resigned from the editorship in 1889 in order to work full-time for the New Unionism , but returned to the editor 's chair in 1891 and remained editor until his death .
10 A good negotiator can make a customer feel satisfied after they have had to work hard for a small discount .
11 More often than not you have to work hard for a few fish .
12 When a particular task requires expatriates to work overseas for a short period of time , it is common for employers to hire people with the necessary skills on short , fixed-term contracts .
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