Example sentences of "[verb] work for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The art seems to have died out in Crete altogether , yet mysteriously reappeared in Mycenae in the thirteenth century BC ; Sinclair Hood ( 1978 ) has suggested that after the conquest of Minoan Crete by Myceneans , the finest craftsmen may have been taken by force to the mainland and made to work for new masters . |
| 2 | Yes , yes , he 's organised it Chris has had to go to work for two days this week . |
| 3 | If you can not find a language helper who only wants to work for one hour a day , try hiring someone to do gardening or housework for you on a more fulltime basis and then use that person also as a language helper until you reach the stage where you can cope with a fulltime language helper . |
| 4 | ‘ He said I did n't need to work for financial reasons and how could I leave the children ? |
| 5 | While I appreciate that some married mothers do need to work for financial reasons , there are many who do n't . |
| 6 | Mr Tony Byrne , aged 35 , from Middlesbrough , joins the company from BASF where he has worked for 13 years . |
| 7 | Leonard Brandwood has worked for many decades on the chronology of Plato 's dialogues . |
| 8 | She teaches in a middle school where she has worked for many years . |
| 9 | For example , a qualified electrician who has worked for thirty years in that profession could be forced to take an ACE post . |
| 10 | Although she can now refit a car by herself , she wo n't qualify fully until she has worked for two years and passed her City and Guilds ‘ hand on ’ course . |
| 11 | A person who has worked for 40 years for the Scottish Transport Group or one of its subsidiaries will receive a maximum pension of , as I have said , two thirds of pensionable salary . |
| 12 | He has worked for pharmaceutical company Pfizer , National Bank of Angola and on collaborative projects for the World Bank and is now representing Banco Espirito Santo in Luanda . |
| 13 | Mr Smythe 's own 23-year-old son , Andrew , has worked for French confectioner fairly new to Britain the Maison Blanc in Oxford and he will soon take the reins of the family company , his training complete . |
| 14 | Has worked for numerous organizations ; will change to get more freedom , autonomy , creativity and direct rewards based on performance . |
| 15 | MORAG MACDONALD Company secretary at the Post Office , where she has worked for 22 years . |
| 16 | The staff has worked for some years to create links with the community and has worked to develop the curriculum , giving special attention to the learning needs of bilingual children . |
| 17 | ‘ It gave her quite a shock , ’ said Bob Murray , managing director of the International Freight firm in Small Heath , Birmingham , where Carolyn has worked for three years . |
| 18 | Jo emphasised the need for good movement and footwork on the court and acknowledged the work of her fitness advisor , Len Heppel , with whom she has worked for three years . |
| 19 | ‘ It was during the post-punk kind of period and I went through a series of bands , but I must admit I found working for other people really difficult . |
| 20 | None of this was available to the hard-pressed scholarly hacks in Gissing 's new Grub Street , or to the real-life Francis Thompson , keeping himself just alive by high-quality literary journalism , which involved working for twelve hours every day and taking no holidays . |
| 21 | In the centuries where children were treated like Oliver Twist and worse ; where children were beaten , half-starved , and put to work for sixteen hours a day and more ; it is not surprising that horses were treated no better . |
| 22 | " Young as I was " , he wrote later , " I had a feeling that I was destined to work for big changes and improvements in the lives of men of the sea " . |
| 23 | Here your training intensity is such that you are pushed to work for one minute , let alone the 20 required for aerobic training ! |
| 24 | The car was traced to dealers in Nottingham where he 'd worked for nine years . |
| 25 | The I O C's choice of Atlanta , Georgia to host the centennial Olympic Games has not only shocked and disappointed the Athens delegation here in Tokyo , it has brought disappointment to the team from Manchester who 'd worked for several years to fulfil the dream of bringing the Games to the U K for the first time since 1948 . |
| 26 | Geoff Tulloch got hold of the idea that she 'd worked for some corporation in Detroit for a year . |
| 27 | We had one free day each week — any one of our choice — and we could also elect to work for twelve days consecutively and then have two days off . |
| 28 | He pledged to work for all sides in the constituency . |
| 29 | However , it tends to work for other companies rather than their own , although — not unnaturally — they make use of it . |
| 30 | Erm , but ac actually I thoroughly enjoy working for Commercial Union , especially if you erm , he 's taking all the |