Example sentences of "was working for a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Mr Heseltine was working for a 50:50 hybrid tax , split between property and head-tax . |
| 2 | IN 1989 I was working for a community video project called Women 's Media Resources . |
| 3 | I was working for a yarn firm who had just gone into the marketing of coned yarns — unfortunately they did not stay the course . |
| 4 | I remember a graphic example of this when I was working for a blessedly short period as a Russian interpreter in Berlin in 1946 . |
| 5 | By now Caroline had left the London college and was working for a glossy magazine in Cardiff . |
| 6 | He 'd been brought up on a farm and had a way with horses , and his first job when he left school was working for a brewery breaking in the big black cobs they brought over wild from Ireland and put to use as cart-horses dragging the great heavy drays full of ale . |
| 7 | The lower classes — if we talk about upper and middle how can we not talk about lower ? — served tea , beer , gin and stodgy food , cut as often as not into hamfisted wedges , fit to fill the belly not the hand , and , understanding that the band was working for a living , treated it with respect and decorum . |
| 8 | Frank was working for a large nursery and wanted to get into management when his eyesight started to fail . |
| 9 | Paul Ride was working for a catering company in Kuwait -- but was arrested and jailed earlier this year after apparently straying accross the border into Iraq . |
| 10 | He was working for an engineering firm and met Herbert in the course of business . |