Example sentences of "[be] work for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're working for the King himself , and he wants to see all the plays . ’ |
| 2 | You 're working for the Israelis now , are n't you ? ’ |
| 3 | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern would be working for The Mob these days . |
| 4 | They often claim to be working for the council and sometimes have ‘ road maintenance ’ painted on the side of their lorries . |
| 5 | Windeler said , ‘ What if he turns out to be working for the Americans ? ’ |
| 6 | They added that they were working for the government undercover and that they had enough evidence to ‘ make the charge stick ’ . |
| 7 | The first real headhunting firms — in the first phase of headhunting — insisted that they were working for the company , not the candidate , and the company was paying the bill . |
| 8 | Meanwhile Today wo n't comment because of legal proceedings … they add Neither the editor nor the managing editor of Today were working for the newspaper at the time of the original article on April 25th 1989 . |
| 9 | During the quarter ending December 1991 , 923 people were working for the council . |
| 10 | In 1969 Josef Frolik of the Czechoslovakian intelligence service defected to the CIA with his wife and proceeded to give some startling information about numerous British Labour Party politicians and trade union officials who he claimed were working for the KGB . |
| 11 | He 's working for the Ordo Hydra , but also subtly against them . |
| 12 | The British commander who has to bring his team through the desert in Ice Cold in Alex ( 1958 ) seems hysterical and incompetent by comparison with the Dutch South African who accompanies them but is working for the Germans ; and the message of Ealing 's Dunkirk ( 1958 ) is summarized in one character 's closing statement , ‘ Somebody 's made a muck of it but I do n't think it 's the army . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd rather been inclined to favour the theory that Fedorov is working for the Hapsburgs . |
| 14 | Devinka Goonetileke ( Mrs Wanigeskera ) is working for the Department of Primary Industries . |
| 15 | Labour is working for the community |
| 16 | Louise uses both names for business purposes , Torsney when she is working for the Hygiene Training Consultancy specialising in tailor-made courses for schools , social services and private hospitals ; and Pollard in her role as hygiene consultant for B & W Hygiene , which is a manufacturer and supplier to the industry . |
| 17 | The most important factors to consider when you employ a food service designer are that he is a professional , has integrity of purpose , is working for the client all the time , and has the client 's immediate financial interest at heart , plus the continued operational interest in the facility when it is opened . |
| 18 | The Tree has some pretty weird ideas about religion ; he might just swallow the idea he 's been working for the devil all this time . |
| 19 | Well everybody that was working for him had always worked in the quarries all their life , and they er they just been working for the slater company before the quarry shut down . |
| 20 | you work for erm Law Centre , erm , how long have you been working for the Law Centre ? |
| 21 | Been working for the Law Centre for three and a half years . |
| 22 | The case of Kenneth Littlejohn had been prominent in the news during the year and they had the impression that he had been working for the Home Office . |
| 23 | I had been working for the Countess as a personal assistant since she married the Earl in 1976 . |
| 24 | Since she left school she 's been working for the Fish Co-operative in Stockholm Backs , not far from Riddle 's yard . ’ |
| 25 | During the time I have been working for the playgroup I have come into contact with about 200 children . |
| 26 | No but I mean , I do n't mean wh I do n't mean where he 's been working for the corporation , I mean before when he 's had these various jobs and they 've finished and he 's had , you know , the job 's finished and they 've had to go somewhere . |
| 27 | He had been working for the Cyrenians at an annex to the Simon House Hostel for the Homeless in Rectory Road Oxford . |
| 28 | Mr Wilbraham , who is only 34 , had been working for the family shipping and engineering business until it was sold in 1987 . |
| 29 | The union , and that means the general committee elected by the club as well as the professional staff appointed by the committee , are working for the benefit of everyone involved in the game in Wales . |
| 30 | The researchers are working for the Frog Mortality Project , set up last year amidst reports of rapid and inexplicable declines in amphibian numbers worldwide [ see EDs 72/73 ; 51 ; 49 ; 47 ; 44 ] . |