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 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | ‘ Working for industry makes you intensely more accountable than just working for a university ever does . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | these bloody apologies for drug companies , have you ever worked for a drug company ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Gordon also worked for a number of years as a P.C. with the Glasgow Police . |
| 10 | If my memory serves me correctly , he had also worked for a while in the office of a chartered accountant , but to no avail . |
| 11 | He has also worked for a period , several years ago with the dye house production control at Templetons . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |