Example sentences of "[verb] be working for " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the employee has been working for you for up to eight weeks and does not have a linking letter or a Leaver 's statement , phone your Social Security office and ask if the start of the PIW you are dealing with links back to a claim to a Social Security benefit . |
| 2 | No individual can sell or receive commission on investment business , unless he has been working for that same Company for at least five continuous years . |
| 3 | Like Costner , David , 40 , has had to guard Whitney from hordes of obsessed fans in the four years he has been working for her . |
| 4 | I mean , dammit all , Charles has been working for 40 years and I 've been working for 22 ’ ) . |
| 5 | The system has been working for about five years now , with never a hitch . |
| 6 | San Francisco self-funded start-up Metron Technology has been working for a year and a half to develop some innovative , object-oriented , automated testing and performance debugging software for developing multi-processor and distributed Unix applications . |
| 7 | With the exception of ‘ Incident on 42nd Street ’ ( 1988 ) , the diptych owned by Metropolitan Museum and omitted for budgetary reasons , the exhibition features all of the themes which the artist has explored and culminates with a selection of canvases of Coney Island , where Jacklin has been working for the last eighteen months . |
| 8 | SEL has been working for some two years on producing French versions of GEC 's technical specifications — an enormous project . |
| 9 | Allan has been working for Historic Scotland since 1986 and has gained wide-ranging experience including masonry consolidation , hewing and building of all types of stonework at sites throughout Grampian Region and the Shetland Islands . |
| 10 | Mari Marcel Thekaekare has been working for the last seven years on a project she and her husband started , working with tribal people in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu . |
| 11 | The system using freezing instead of hot branding has been working for 12 years and the firm has now won a Royal Warrant . |
| 12 | Professor Reg King has been working for twenty years on developing a foolproof bank cashpoint machine . |
| 13 | The brew is still fermented for days , using the same yeast which has been working for years and years . |
| 14 | Mr John McIleree , who served with the Royal Signals for 20 years and now lives at Scotton , near Richmond , has been working for his technology degree since 1973 when he was still in the Army . |
| 15 | In the 19 years she has been working for Durham County Council 's social services the number of rehabilitation officers for the visually impaired has dropped to one . |
| 16 | I got this job in the machine sh in one of the lock shops and er for a fellow , I worked for him and er after I 'd been working for him they wanted me to work for somebody else but this fellow would n't let me go . |
| 17 | this chap was here last week he bought this pine table up , got his key , and he 'd been working for three years in Norway |
| 18 | In 1969 Josef Frolik of the Czechoslovakian intelligence service defected to the CIA with his wife and proceeded to give some startling information about numerous British Labour Party politicians and trade union officials who he claimed were working for the KGB . |
| 19 | Edward Nundy , 55 , of Southend , Essex , was allegedly seen at his boat when he should have been working for Car Buyer magazine . |
| 20 | With sufficient manipulation of the rota , it would be possible to arrange for the work-force to have been working for the same number of hours at different times of the day — condition ( 2 ) . |
| 21 | He sighed tiredly , as though he had been working for a full day with stone and timber , and tried to listen to James Menzies , who was well away , drinking whisky with Allan and simmering with the news from the west , where the lists had been torn down from the church doors at Fortingall and Kenmore , and from Blair Atholl : the Duke 's factor had had to meet a crowd of more than a thousand and the Duke had signed a paper swearing not to impose the Act . |
| 22 | Hawksmoor had been working for Wren since he was 18 and Castle Howard was very probably modelled on Wren 's proposed plan for Hampton Court ( which never got beyond the drawing board ) . |
| 23 | Owen had been working for a consulting company in Washington before deciding to devote himself to the contras , sitting at North 's feet ; despite his deep immersion in murky affairs , he still took a wide-eyed view of the world in which he operated . |
| 24 | Of course he had been working for Hut 6 from the day of his arrival at Bletchley and his duties soon became important . |
| 25 | The manuscript on which Ernest Cotchin had been working for so many years was unfinished and unrevised when he died in September 1988 . |
| 26 | It so happened that the firm I had been working for ( manufacturers of rubber-coats , ground-sheets , etc. ) had closed down the Glasgow Office and factory , and I was without work . |
| 27 | Mr Wilbraham , who is only 34 , had been working for the family shipping and engineering business until it was sold in 1987 . |
| 28 | The case of Kenneth Littlejohn had been prominent in the news during the year and they had the impression that he had been working for the Home Office . |
| 29 | Henderson had been working for British secret services for 20 years , it was revealed last night . |
| 30 | I had been working for the Countess as a personal assistant since she married the Earl in 1976 . |