Example sentences of "[adv] work for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless you are fortunate enough to work for a company that recognises this need , there are basically two options available for that initial promotion . |
| 2 | Either way , they would see no increase in their direct taxes under Labour , provided they do not work for a living . |
| 3 | Elizabeth Stewart , post-graduate chemistry student , recalls that Sir Robert Robinson under whom she was to work was away working for a government department and his students rarely saw him : ‘ We never knew when he would do a lab round , and often it would be at the lunch hour , when I was out ’ . |
| 4 | and and they paid the fees and so on whereas er anywhere else you just work for a firm of estate agents and they pay whether they pay you and the qualifications up to you you go off and do it and you know |
| 5 | ‘ Working for industry makes you intensely more accountable than just working for a university ever does . |
| 6 | These latter are classified in a residual category called labourers , which included coolies , carters and service workers , such as blacksmiths and washermen , who usually worked for a fee or wage . |
| 7 | these bloody apologies for drug companies , have you ever worked for a drug company ? |
| 8 | She had indeed once worked for a silversmith but had discovered that it was much easier to buy beads and acquire old pieces of jewellery , rearrange them artistically and sell them on market stalls throughout the country . |
| 9 | On leaving school Herbert joined his father as an engineering apprentice , and also worked for a time in the mechanical engineering laboratories of the City and Guilds Technical College in Finchley , London . |
| 10 | Gordon also worked for a number of years as a P.C. with the Glasgow Police . |
| 11 | If my memory serves me correctly , he had also worked for a while in the office of a chartered accountant , but to no avail . |
| 12 | He has also worked for a period , several years ago with the dye house production control at Templetons . |
| 13 | ‘ It is time for Drew to go back to work for a living , ’ said his manager . |
| 14 | The Commission filing indicates that Michels , whose Santa Cruz shares would be worth around $51.1m with the offering , is receiving $16,667 a month in salary until June 1994 , a total of $300,000 , provided he does n't work for a competitor or try to get back on Santa Cruz 's board , and $3,000 a month for expenses . |
| 15 | The SEC filing indicates Michels , whose SCO shares would be worth around $51.1m with the offering , is receiving $16,667 a month in salary until June 1994 , a total of $300,000 , provided he does n't work for a competitor or try to get back on SCO 's board and $3,000 a month for expenses . |
| 16 | ‘ I told him — my husband had a hard job , he was n't working for a time . |
| 17 | She is a familiar sight round the lanes near the stables , trotting along with her exercise cart , and even works for a living by fetching her own carrots from the local farm shop . |
| 18 | When he left the Kunstgewerbeschule in 1936 he set up in Zurich as a freelance photograph , a job he fitted in between the traditional periods of military service compulsory in Switzerland , then worked for a year in the famous magazine Graphics . |
| 19 | After graduation he held house appointments at the Royal Victoria Infirmary ( RVI ) , Newcastle upon Tyne , and then worked for a year in pathology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore before becoming house physician at the Hospital for Sick Children , Great Ormond Street , London ( 1939 ) . |
| 20 | After the Law Society Finals she served articles in private practice in Cambridge and then worked for a year as a litigation assistant in a branch office of a Suffolk firm in Mildenhall . |
| 21 | On one occasion James Gilbey , then working for a car rental company in Victoria , woke to find his prize Alfa Romeo car covered in eggs and flour which had set like concrete . |
| 22 | I myself work for a newspaper ( Gulp ! — IM ) and believe in individuals having their own opinions ( Why work for a newspaper then ? — IM ) . |
| 23 | If a guy I mean I 've worked for farmers I I actually worked for a farmer once from seven o'clock in the morning till nine o'clock at night for five quid . |
| 24 | There a chemist who had recently worked for a company involved in the manufacture of submarine telephone cables recognised its similarity to gutta percha — the material used to sheathe such cables . |