Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] work for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , ’ said Caspar , and then glanced over his shoulder as if to make sure no one was listening , ‘ well , the truth of it is , that I work for the Gruagach . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm pleased with it , ’ Maria responded warily , reminding herself that she worked for the man . |
| 3 | I think that the first thing that one would have to say is that we work for the Ministry of Defence , and not the Ministry of War and therefore we are about defence , we 're about the maintenance of peace , erm this you know maintaining of justice etc etc . |
| 4 | Frequently venue staff try to set everything up before you arrive , on the basis that it worked for the people before you and it 's less effort for them . |
| 5 | and I worked for the council so he spoke to me one day and he said , Will you cut the roads with a tractor and a mower . |
| 6 | President-elect Bill Clinton , who takes over from Bush on January 20 , said Mr Bush 's decision gave the message : ‘ If you work for the government you 're above the law . ’ |
| 7 | Now it is generally observed that most civil servants whatever country they come from make sure that they er give each other pay rises and I know it happens in this country the Civil Service pay pays quite well and it 's certainly a key erm feature in er pay structure in developing countries that if your , if you work for the government you are very very well paid , like government wages can be , you know , four , five , six , ten , twenty times |
| 8 | If you worked for the probation service |
| 9 | ‘ Well , if you worked for the blacksmith , ’ this old man said , ‘ that was me ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ If you worked for the Times you 'd have known John . |
| 11 | ‘ Michael ran a cab and he worked for the bookies on the side . |
| 12 | Erm well they 're , they 're based actually in , in America but I work for the U K division . |
| 13 | I was so disappointed to find out that , because I work for the company , I could not send off for three free tea towels and a £1 gift voucher being offered as part of a Hovis and JS combined promotion . |
| 14 | Maxim wondered if he dressed that way only because he worked for The Firm , and decided probably not . |
| 15 | Zacchaeus was a tax-collector and was very unpopular with the Jews , not only because he worked for the Romans but also because he was very rich through cheating people , as he himself admitted ( Luke 19:8 ) . |
| 16 | These are binding on you while you work for the ES and after you leave the organisation , both at work and in your own time . |
| 17 | And so the A N C has to make sure that while it works for the aspirations of its people it must also protect the country and I 'm afraid in this context it means it has through negotiations and other means also conceded made concessions in order to save the situation and the only organization that is now working for the national interest even losing its own supporters in the country is basically the A N C and it 's quite a remarkable thing to see that leaders are prepared to l lose political support because they have to make sure that the country does n't . |
| 18 | If so , whether you work for the buyer or the seller , you will be able to complain of unfair dismissal , subject to the normal eligibility rule outlined in Chapter 20 . |
| 19 | And , having no idea how important this or that person was , whether they worked for the BBC or the TLS or the BFI , he treated them all with equal condescension . |
| 20 | Crackers and flares take on a whole new meaning when you work for the Olefines business . |
| 21 | Though she works for the SSD , she is unusually placed in the health authority 's child health department . |
| 22 | Well it must be ten years ago when he worked for the B B C and that , he must have been in his late twenties then |