Example sentences of "[verb] to work [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You do n't want to work hard for a year establishing your act , get offered a tour , and then find that your drummer wo n't give up his milk round . |
| 2 | He did n't know if they would succeed , but it showed that , even here , there were people prepared to work together for the common good . |
| 3 | They point out , for example , that Japanese companies in particular have for some time been making strenuous efforts to recruit labour which is not so much cheap but flexible and prepared to work hard for the company in question . |
| 4 | A good negotiator can make a customer feel satisfied after they have had to work hard for a small discount . |
| 5 | Over there they have lots of servants , and her mother asks me if I would like to work there for a year , looking after Charlotte , so that Nicola could come and stay with them . |
| 6 | Five years ago , increasingly concerned about the environment , he decided to work directly for an environmental group . |
| 7 | The way I was doing the deal , everyone was going to have to work together for a long time . ’ |
| 8 | After all , we 're going to have to work together for the next week or so , so maybe it will help iron out the problems we keep having . ’ |
| 9 | We decided to try to get to know one another better , seeing as we 're forced to work together for the next week or so . ’ |
| 10 | But to be effective they all have to learn to work together for the good of the school . |
| 11 | Their manifesto says that the government ‘ will continue to work strenuously for a political solution acceptable to all parties ’ , which is to say for a gravitational system in which apples fall upwards . |
| 12 | We will continue to work strenuously for a political agreement which is acceptable to all the parties involved in the talks which the Secretary of State has had during the past year with the main constitutional parties in Northern Ireland the Government of the Republic of Ireland . |
| 13 | The local education authority , and participating employers , in planning to work together for the benefit of young people , will need , early on , to clarify their modus operandi . |
| 14 | If you are planning to work overseas for an organisation with which you are not very familiar , it makes sense to check that they are a bona fide , reputable organisation with a good track record of treating executive employees fairly . |
| 15 | More often than not you have to work hard for a few fish . |
| 16 | Finely spread bait means they have to work hard for a meal and therefore remain in the swim for the maximum length of time . |