Example sentences of "[modal v] work for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should work for the B B C should n't I as a news reporter |
| 2 | This will normally mean that they must work for the company full-time . |
| 3 | He 'd been helping his wife to , she must work for the council and he 'd been helping her and he said er the matron at Comfort House had asked and he , and he 'd noticed Jim 's name on when he delivered ours so he knew where they could , he 'd take them . |
| 4 | But it was as much a legal body as a spiritual one , although occasionally this could work for the individual 's unexpected benefit as in the laws relating to sanctuary or ‘ abjuring the realm ’ . |
| 5 | According to the family he rarely used it except on Sundays when he spent the afternoon and evening with an old chap who used to work for the firm and now lives in sheltered accommodation at Carbis Bay . |
| 6 | ‘ It was sixty years ago since I left this place , I used to work for the blacksmith . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I used to work for the bugger — you know that , do n't you ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ But he used to work for the gas board , did n't he ? ’ said the boy . |
| 9 | Cos , you used to work for the castronery had to pay you see , not the firm . |
| 10 | And she used to work for the TSB bank . ’ |
| 11 | There is a bar by the roadside , further on , and I 'll enquire there , as I think the landlady used to work for the Harvey-Beaumonts . |
| 12 | Harry , who used to work for the coal board , cites Graham Gooch as his favourite cricketer . |
| 13 | We have Whitewater Leisure , Contemporary Leisure and all the controversy about those who used to work for the Glasgow authority . |
| 14 | PRAGUE ( Reuter ) — The Czechoslovak dissident playwright Vaclav Havel said he had received a message from Poland 's Prime Minister , Tadeusz Mazowiecki , that he would work for the release of two Czechoslovak human rights campaigners , Jan Carnogursky and Miroslav Kusy . |
| 15 | Poland and the Soviet Union would work for the transformation of the existing bloc alliances into a new system of collective European security . |
| 16 | It was agreed that the Georgian and Russian governments , together with the government of the North Ossetian autonomous republic ( inside the Russian Federation ) , would work for the resettlement of the tens of thousands of refugees displaced from South Ossetia by the conflict , and for the " restoration of the lawful local government bodies " . |
| 17 | During the election campaign the PCCh , which was not legalized , had announced on Nov. 9 , 1989 , that it would work for the victory of the presidential opposition candidate ; the former secretary-general of the PCCh , Luis Corvalán , who had returned to Chile on Oct. 12 after 13 years in exile , had made a similar declaration . |
| 18 | In Washington , the administration has now let it be known that it will work for the softening of the amendment 's consequences , provided — and forgetting Kosovo for the moment — that Stipe Mesic , a Croat , is no longer obstructed by the Serbs from taking up the post of chairman ( for one year ) of Yugoslavia 's eight-member presidency . |
| 19 | I suspect that it will involve largely the same personnel , but they will no longer be on the strength of Her Majesty 's inspectorate and will work for the funding council responsible for further education and sixth form colleges . |
| 20 | I shall describe those provisions and how they will work for the adult sector at large , including the Croydon education and training service . |
| 21 | Almost everyone will work for the group , rather than a specific title . |
| 22 | We are working hard to solve the problem and if we succeed it will not only be good for Arsenal , but will work for the betterment of England , too . |
| 23 | There are two important fields of action in which we can work for the restoration of a vigorous and healthy economic life . |