Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] work for " in BNC.

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1 Where I work for you ? ’
2 She had for a while become a Monotype operator , on one of the " women 's machines " , and also remembers " trying to do imposition " and doing a little display work in one mainly jobbing firm where she worked for a short time .
3 Renowned for her ‘ tomboyish tastes ’ ( she would , even in evening dress , always carry a knife and some string about her person ) , Emma went on to the School for Ornamental Art and began to support early Victorian feminist causes , making an initial living as a restorer of stained-glass windows notably in the chapel of Merton College , Oxford , where she worked for two years in the early 1860s .
4 The Chiefs of Staff took the unusual step of going down to the Royal Naval College , Greenwich , in the late spring of 1952 , where they worked for a fortnight on Churchill 's requirement with their principal scientific and technological advisers , free from the day-to-day hubbub of Whitehall .
5 Mr Bolona is equally welcome in financial circles in North America , where he worked for a time as a consultant on Latin American debt .
6 Born in Devon in 1954 , Andrew Mudge left school at the age of fifteen and did nine years ' service in the Navy before becoming Gardener for the Trust at Castle Drogo where he worked for seven years .
7 In 1837 he was apprenticed to his uncle James S. Stirling at Dundee foundry , where he worked for the next six years and where some locomotives were built for the Arbroath and Forfar Railway which influenced his own later designs .
8 ‘ I know very little about her , although she worked for him in the war too .
9 Although they work for advertising agencies they are not strictly advertising people but specialists in their particular field , such as photographers , illustrators , printers or film technicians .
10 Later I tell C that if I worked for the Daily Star , I 'd have my story already .
11 It 's not as if I worked for a large network news show .
12 He says an which he says you 've worked so hard , cos I worked for two casters which I should n't have done really , but that 's how I were used to working you see and er , he said er , I said well me dad keeps asking me to go and work for him , and he said well I 'll tell you what I 'll do with you , he says you 've worked so hard for us , this bloke came from Bloxford you know He says you 've worked so hard for us , he said we 'll agree to you going with your father , er for a month and see whether you like it , and if you do n't like it , come back and we 'll give you your job back .
13 ‘ You need to know where they all are if you work for the Royal Mail , ’ Coltman says .
14 If you work for a fairly large company you probably have a standard procedure for informing new employees about conditions of work , etc .
15 If you work for a company which insists that you drive a particular brand of car , resign , first writing off the car in an accident in which two teenage hookers and a hallucinating macaw reach a rather untimely end .
16 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 . ’
17 And if you work for me you 'll take it seriously .
18 If you work for a large company , with plenty of in-house techies to repair a computer if it goes wrong , or you are competent — and confident — enough to fix it yourself , then you could be justified in buying cheap and taking a risk .
19 If you work for an organisation which dictates a house-style , then you must conform to it in your correspondence , but you should remember that there are a number of equally valid alternatives .
20 Which means of course if you work for Trading Standards , as I did until very recently if you work for Trading Standards you tend to get a rather jaundiced view of shopping .
21 Which means of course if you work for Trading Standards , as I did until very recently if you work for Trading Standards you tend to get a rather jaundiced view of shopping .
22 If you work for between eight and 16 hours you will have to have worked for the same employer for at least five years to be eligible , and if you work for less than eight hours a week , you 'll lose these rights altogether .
23 If you work for between eight and 16 hours you will have to have worked for the same employer for at least five years to be eligible , and if you work for less than eight hours a week , you 'll lose these rights altogether .
24 If you work for a large commercial firm , you will almost certainly be involved in this .
25 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
26 That 's right , I mean , again , it 's one of those things , it 's in the benefits package , if you work for a company , you do n't want to know about it until you need to claim .
27 If you worked for the Times you 'd have known John .
28 ‘ Well , if you worked for the blacksmith , ’ this old man said , ‘ that was me ! ’
29 If you worked for the probation service
30 Can I , you the example you did before to other people was that if you worked you know your normal scheme forty years and if you worked for ten of those forty years you become deferred .
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