Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [vb -s] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My husband works for a firm . |
| 2 | My husband works for a bus company but he has n't said anything about this . |
| 3 | She says bringing up three children plus two career moves her husband works for a computer firm strung out her studies . |
| 4 | and simply batty … the woman who takes her baby bats for a bike ride . |
| 5 | Of course he needs to know the obvious data like her starsign , blood-type , favourite foods and what her father does for a living . |
| 6 | Its Constitution provides for a President as head of state , elected by Parliament every four years . |
| 7 | Hourcade condemned it as un-French : ‘ our tradition calls for a subject and the originality of Cubism lies precisely in its rejection of the anecdote in order to rediscover the subject ’ ; and he repudiated the idea that all the painters of the Section d'Or had renounced natural appearances : ‘ … it is absolutely false to say that all these painters are turning their backs on nature and want only to produce pure painting . ’ |