Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] work for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hill said : ‘ This is the opportunity I have worked for and I would like to thank the team for putting their faith in me . |
| 2 | An assizes court in Paris on June 15 , 1990 , sentenced Rolf Dobbertin , a German-born nuclear physicist who had worked for the French National Council for Scientific Research ( CNRS ) , to 12 years ' imprisonment for espionage for East Germany during the 10 years to January 1979 [ see p. 29786 for his arrest in 1979 and p. 33867 for his release in 1983 ] . |
| 3 | This would issue bonds free of charge to each citizen who had worked for at least five years , which could be exchanged for shares in any enterprise . |
| 4 | This was quite clearly not an agreement between the employer and the employee but had the effect of being an indirect restraint on any employee who wanted to work for another member of the trade association within the two year period . |
| 5 | What was that boy I had working for me , I 've forgotten his name ? |
| 6 | For example , a qualified electrician who has worked for thirty years in that profession could be forced to take an ACE post . |
| 7 | He had worked hard all his life and had served his country for four years and was looking forward to retirement in the home he had worked for all his days . |
| 8 | One of my former patients , a respected scientist who had worked for many years in the field of cancer research , still kept the inferior Inner Face inflicted on him by demanding parents and a series of thoughtless teachers . |
| 9 | A PENSIONER who has worked for the community for many years has had his efforts officially recognised . |
| 10 | Since we needed someone to skin and look after the specimens we collected , we eventually employed a lanky youth called Yusuf German who had worked for a Greek taxidermist in the town . |
| 11 | The defendant firm lawfully terminated the employment of the plaintiff who had worked for them for many years . |
| 12 | A newly retired further education teacher who had worked for both the Home Office as a prison instructor and for a local authority as a teacher of technical subjects , applied for two part-time jobs . |
| 13 | ‘ That first day you came to work for me , you were shaking with it when I untied your pony-tail and ran my fingers through your hair . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A deeper allegiance than his love for the children of the Anglo-Irish landlord he had worked for since he was a homeless lad knocking at the kitchen door to ask for a cup of tea and an odd job . |
| 16 | The true identity of the corpse was made known in 1838 by William Sweeting , Sheldon 's nephew : the body was none other than Sarah Stone , a medical artist who had worked for both Sheldon and Hunter 's assistant , Cruikshank . |
| 17 | A TYNESIDE man who has worked for the Ministry of Defence for nearly 30 years will be awarded a medal on Thursday . |
| 18 | As a young man he had worked for GenSyn as a commodity slave , his time and talents bought by them on a fifteen-year contract . |
| 19 | For most of his life he has worked for Cummins Engine Co. , and met his wife there . |
| 20 | In the past he has worked for John Moore , Cecil Parkinson and Nigel Lawson . |
| 21 | ‘ Since Patsy 's murder there has been a sea change in attitude towards us by the military , ’ said Alec , a 45-year-old Catholic who has worked for the MoD since before the Troubles . |
| 22 | The indoor championship was the latest in a string of honours for the 28-year-old who has worked for the UK Courtaulds company for seven years . |
| 23 | It notes that by hiring two firms , IBM gave itself maximum scope — and also upset the search industry because search firms are barred from approaching a company they have worked for two years after a placement , and barred for life from approaching an individual they once placed , so each of IBM 's two can pass on such names to the other . |
| 24 | I did that one day when things got hairier than usual , went down to where some bandit was trying to rip us off and practically rubbed beards with him and shouted into his face I Want To Work For Christ 's Sake Let Me Work , but Vic said that was n't being helpful . |
| 25 | Several minutes later he added : ‘ But I would not like to give you the impression I have worked for either of them yet . ’ |
| 26 | Contacts between the revolutionary left and the rest of the underground continued , so who better than a designer who had worked for Oz ? |