Example sentences of "work [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jim Byrne is a physicist who work as the university . |
| 2 | Er , well this is Jane , erm , my colleague , we both work for the depot . |
| 3 | ‘ All I want to do now is concentrate on football and work for the success of a great little club . ’ |
| 4 | M I five operates it in Northern Ireland and has got this whole series you may well have seen the television programme recently about these people who work undercover and who work for the intelligence and they they work themselves into the I R A and become members and then they feed the information back to British it 's been very successful and a couple of insiders is risky and we eventually when they are discovered who these people are , they have to be given new identities , plastic surgery and the works . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Work for the government . ’ |
| 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 | Go on does n't it make you sort of bias when you actually work for the system ? |
| 9 | We work for the King of Ruritania . ’ |
| 10 | An assistant warden and a field assistant also live here and work for the Trust . |
| 11 | BARBARA and NEIL TAYLOR were among the founders of the Shared Earth Trust and now work for the Trust as its project co- ordinators at the Denmark Farm Conservation Centre . |
| 12 | Fragmented evidence suggests that questions about married women 's reasons for taking jobs tap the normative tip of the iceberg — that women say they work for the money because this is the socially acceptable reason . |
| 13 | The ultimate situation would be that such as Rank Xerox are now operating on a small-scale experimental basis whereby some senior staff work for the company from home on a free-lance sub-contractor basis . |
| 14 | THIS WILL BE REFLECTED IN A CONSISTENTLY OUTSTANDING FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE AND GUINNESS BREWING WORLDWIDE WILL BE RECOGNISED AS A TRULY EXCEPTIONAL COMPANY IN WHICH ALL WHO WORK FOR THE COMPANY CAN TAKE PRIDE . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I work for the council salting the roads . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh yes , ' ’ I said , ‘ ‘ but now they all work for the Ministry of the Interior . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ The argument against a one-party state is shared by many intellectuals , including those in the party and who work for the state , but those in power are for it . |
| 20 | The party 's base is in the unions , most of whose members work for the state : for its bloated railways , its idle port authority , the dark light-and-power company , the incompetent civil and education services . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm not the buyer , ’ Culley told him , ‘ I work for the buyer . |
| 23 | Work for the degree of MPhil and PhD may be undertaken in the Unit as well as in the main department . |
| 24 | Thus , as I say , it is hardly surprising that , among those who wish to forge alliances with environmentalists , those who , like myself , work for the goal of animal liberation are likely to find the going rougher than those who are pro-welfare or anti-cruelty . |
| 25 | I also work for the peer group for the Brook |
| 26 | Work for the regeneration of our cities will continue . |
| 27 | This also applies when you no longer work for the Employment Service . |
| 28 | We work for the prison service director-general and negotiate with him . |
| 29 | Well I work for the organization Crossroads , and I think what I find in in my contacts with carers is that they need help in the way , and when they need it however , our organization is restricted by lack of funding |
| 30 | ‘ But that 's enough work for the evening , Watson . |