Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] work for " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Mum works for Jane in there , in the alarm business and Jane paid me five pounds . |
| 2 | To promote and facilitate discussion at school level about the philosophy of the Catholic school ( using my experiences working for the Queensland Catholic Education Commission as a stimulus . ) |
| 3 | My husband works for a firm . |
| 4 | My husband works for a bus company but he has n't said anything about this . |
| 5 | ‘ I would n't dream of giving up my job to work for you ! ’ |
| 6 | I could n't possibly allow my wife to work for men who ca n't keep their minds on the job and their hands to themselves . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ My father worked for them . |
| 8 | Stan Johnson , the chap my father works for , has a finger in all sorts of pies , including housing . |
| 9 | My father works for an oil company and last summer he was seconded to their Texas headquarters for five years . |
| 10 | We lived in a large farmhouse , that belonged to the farm my father worked for . |
| 11 | It 's a very good paper , and I approve of its line , which is important : so many of my friends work for papers they ca n't stand . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ My lodger works for NCPR . ’ |
| 13 | As one lecturer put it , ‘ I do n't want one of my students working for a first to have the achievement marred because it was ‘ only a 1.2 ’ . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ My son works for the housing dept around here . |
| 15 | My brother works for my father . |
| 16 | My brother works for the Department of Health and he can always arrange to get away if he knows the date far enough in advance . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ One thing I still find hard to take in is how hard my mother worked for all of us . |
| 18 | The man my mother worked for . |
| 19 | She 's typed up and then said she 's hyped up because her sister works for the R S P C A , and she 's |
| 20 | They are usually those days on which your employees are required by their contract to work for you . |
| 21 | Some fear it 's their last chance to secure the future they and their forefathers worked for . |
| 22 | According to Marx 's theory the many different units were willing to unite and contribute their labour to work for the despot because this appeared , not as working for him , but as working for ‘ the higher unity ’ , which , they wrongly believed , was the source of their continued existence . |
| 23 | When it dawned on her that she would have to earn her own living , she made up her mind to work for a diploma and then teach , and do some book-illustrating while she cast about for her real métier . |
| 24 | The vast bulk of lawyers spend their lives working for business interests , and top lawyers work overwhelmingly for giant corporations who alone can afford their fees . |
| 25 | The East India Company and other companies like the Royal Africa Company and the Hudson 's Bay Company rarely brought in men like Roe to help with work at the top , and normally expected to promote people who had spent their lives working for the Company . |
| 26 | Most people ensure that they spend their lives working for something which they think has a future , and which will provide the sort of life and opportunity that they wish for themselves and their dependants . |
| 27 | Established British companies had exploited the first whiff of pop vitality , with ABPC putting the saccharine personality of Cliff Richard through his paces in The Young Ones ( 1961 ) , a let's-have-a-show musical where all possibility of an interesting inter-generation clash is defused by the fact that its hero works for , and adores , his father , the property developer who wants to destroy the youth club ; and Summer Holiday ( 1962 ) , in which Cliff and the Shadows drive a London bus to Rome , pursued by the mother of the teen star they are thought to have kidnapped . |
| 28 | The Sinhalese were thought lazy because of their reluctance to work for planters , but the poor living conditions of estate labourers are ample explanation of the failure to recruit Sinhalese workers . |
| 29 | Finally , when they get back home once again they are ‘ in demand ’ , and it is in their nature to work for the family again and put their own wants or needs to the bottom of the pile ! |
| 30 | erm , cos Mary that still works in there she , her husband worked for either Mr Henry , I ca n't remember his name , the man that owned it , and I think , I think perhaps they were brothers or something , she , her husband owns it now it 's Freyers or something now |