Example sentences of "work for [pron] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So while interpreters working from spoken English to sign language are called upon to work for nothing as a service to these normal , intelligent ‘ disabled ’ people , those in the foreign spoken language interpretive role , where language users are equal , may rise to occupy one of the highest status roles in diplomacy , and correspondingly command high financial rewards . |
| 2 | The County Council er w would train you but you 'd do your erm year 's training and then you had to work for them for a year , I think it was a year or eighteen months . |
| 3 | ‘ Surely I already know what the contents of our contract are — namely , that I am to work for you for a period of eighteen months , after which time you will release me with my debt to you cancelled ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You want me to work for you after the way you 've treated me ? |
| 5 | Coupled with desperately needed new construction , such as the cross-rail proposals , these existing routes could be made to really work for us at a fraction of the cost of new road-building , and with minimal land encroachment , pollution or disturbance to the environment . |
| 6 | The conclusive Senate vote was scheduled for Oct. 8 , but had to be delayed for seven days following revelation of new evidence from Anita Hill , 35 , a black University of Oklahoma teacher of law , who alleged that Thomas had subjected her to sexual harassment with explicit , pornographic suggestions when she worked for him at the Department of Education and the EEOC in the early 1980s . |
| 7 | Most important of all , he inspired the people who worked for him with a vision of what they were doing . |
| 8 | And er , see , my father , when they used to start the rounds , they used to start , go down the Fen on a Tuesday , er the man what worked for him over the road George worked for him there , a chap named George and my father used to go round Wicken , that 's three miles away from here . |
| 9 | ‘ I know very little about her , although she worked for him in the war too . |
| 10 | Oh yes , one of the , one of the surprises of this was discovering that in fact one of the people who knew Florence Kelly and indeed worked for her for a while , and who herself set up a minimum wage board in Washington , in the District of Columbia , is indeed still alive , and has very powerful memories of , of both the people and the activities of the movement . |
| 11 | She 's only been here two weekends , and none of us had worked for her in the past … |
| 12 | Yurchenko contacted the American Embassy in Rome in August 1985 , having already worked for them as an agent in place . |
| 13 | Old Aaron Kleiber built up a little tailoring business , and for a time Ruth had worked for him as a seamstress , together with Sarah Vogel , another immigrant , and Rosie O'Dell , Connor and Sean 's half-sister . |
| 14 | Ms Starnes , who had once worked for him in the news department of WSGN Radio in Birmingham , Alabama , agreed at once that he should cover pending events in Libya for Mutual Radio and promised to get the necessary credentials to him within 48 hours . |
| 15 | ‘ But it means you work for me for the rest of your life to pay me back . ’ |
| 16 | I work for her as a waitress . |
| 17 | If you are successful there will be much work for you in the future . ’ |
| 18 | But if apprenticeship was to work as its devisers hoped it relied upon the interest of freedmen in working for themselves in the time they were allotted and their generosity if their work for their former masters was to be energetic . |
| 19 | And all the other farmers were paying the guys who were working for them on the side , ten pound a day , for working from nine o'clock in the morning till about five at night . |
| 20 | Andrew Tombs , 27 , of Stokesley , North Yorkshire , agreed to carry out 150 hours community service after pleading guilty at Teesside Crown Court to stealing equipment valued at £7,400 from Tarmac Construction , while working for them as a drainer on a building site in the town . |
| 21 | Andrew Tombs , 27 , of Stokesley , North Yorkshire , agreed to carry out 150 hours community service after admitting at Teesside Crown Court stealing equipment worth £7,400 from Tarmac Construction , while working for them as a drainer on a building site in the town . |
| 22 | From the meeting that m that Trevor and I had with Keith the other day , erm Keith is actually working in support of us to try and m maintain us working for them in the future . |
| 23 | Joe had another blacksmith working for him at the forge . |
| 24 | It 's cos he 's working for him at the moment money . |
| 25 | In Indonesia , for example the US-owned oil company Caltex had some 10,000 people working for it by the beginning of the 1980s . |
| 26 | But if you believe that there is a God then they are working for you in the sense that , for them , to pray is to work . |
| 27 | Let us get the great working for us for a change . ’ ’ |
| 28 | Clive works for them as a delivery skipper . |
| 29 | Your worships , Mr works for Wallbank aerials in Worley and he works for them as an engineer his vehicle was erm something that he did use for work , but unfortunately as a result of the accident his has been written off and he has n't yet been able to er , replace it and so he 's having to be erm er , chauffeured by the company to do his er his work . |
| 30 | Your Worships Mr works for in Worley and he works for them as an engineer . |