Example sentences of "[vb past] work for [pron] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The Sinn Fein man claimed two plain-clothes men approached Mr Fox in Thomas Street , Dungannon on September 2 and promised him a new house if he agreed to work for them . |
| 2 | ‘ That first day you came to work for me , you were shaking with it when I untied your pony-tail and ran my fingers through your hair . ’ |
| 3 | It was believed in Kenya that when a Masai came to work for you it was a kind of accolade . |
| 4 | W was there anyone who came to work for you |
| 5 | Mr Smyth , 31 , wept as he said : ‘ She came to work for my nan and granddad when she was 16 . |
| 6 | He came to work for my company in Avignon as an assistant in the overseas purchasing department . |
| 7 | And erm anyway we got more from the unemployment exchange that prepared to work for him for fourteen pound , when we could have a eighteen pound on the dole . |
| 8 | He prepared to work for his father in the building trade , or even go back to college . |
| 9 | Well they I I tell you this they they we 'd worked for him for er good many years and there was no talk of any cuts in wages , we had this wages all through the through these years , and everybody was happy with it . |
| 10 | JD recalls : ‘ That was a design I thought about when I first started working for myself . |
| 11 | Eileen trained as a confectioner and once her family was grown up , started working for her brother , a baker . |
| 12 | I do n't think I was on the same wavelength as the Prime Minister almost from the start , although I did work for her beforehand and try to pull together some of the policies . |
| 13 | You did work for them , after all . ’ |
| 14 | Believe me , I am very , very sorry , because I liked working for you . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Sometimes I wish that we had to work for our reception . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ And Connie , ’ pursued Camille , ‘ lives in a house the same as this and she never had to work for it . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Unlike my father , who had to work for his money , my mother was born into a very wealthy family . |
| 19 | Subsequently , she worked for finance director Derek Henson until his retirement last year and continued to work for his successor Rosemary Thorne . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He was the Principal Scientific Officer Document Examiner , and she had worked for him as a young S.O . |
| 22 | He had liked Susan Moffat who , for two years , had worked for him as his S.O . |
| 23 | She had worked for him and her mother in a variety of businesses and was always assured that she would inherit his estate when he died . |
| 24 | She 's only been here two weekends , and none of us had worked for her in the past … |
| 25 | But in the three years he had worked for her , she had n't deceived him . |
| 26 | Joe 's father had worked for her father , and Joe himself had earned a few shillings helping out , when he was a scrawny boy with a runny nose . |
| 27 | EC Finance Ministers also agreed on Oct. 19 on measures providing for a minimum of 14 weeks ' maternity leave to be paid at a rate at least as high as statutory sick pay regardless of how long a pregnant woman had worked for her employer . |
| 28 | Mrs. Butler had worked for her stepfather for ten years , ever since her and Jenny 's mother had died . |
| 29 | It was not fairy gold that had fallen into their open laps : the first Mrs Headleand , it was true , had conveniently died , but Charles and Liz thereafter had worked for their position . |
| 30 | It was certainly good to read that so many people had never felt healthier or had more energy ; and I was gratified to hear from those who had previously attempted to diet but without success that this diet had worked for them . |