Example sentences of "[was/were] work for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were working for a pay of from 9d. a day to 2/6 . |
| 2 | Middlesbrough men Paul Brudenell , of Clynes Road , and Barry Ferguson were working for a firm of contractors at 2am yesterday when the incident happened . |
| 3 | They added that they were working for the government undercover and that they had enough evidence to ‘ make the charge stick ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | During the quarter ending December 1991 , 923 people were working for the council . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | * Is your sickness due to an accident which happened while you were working for an employer ? |
| 9 | * Is your sickness due to a prescribed industrial disease caused by conditions at work , while you were working for an employer ? |
| 10 | If you and I were working for an organization which gave say half a million to charity , our , I mean correct me if I 'm wrong , but I , I 'm sure our temptation would be to say how can we promote this giving in the media in order , let's be honest about it , to make our , us look good , partly that would be it . |
| 11 | Its immediate economic aim was to work for the reduction and eventual elimination of tariffs on most industrial goods among its members . |
| 12 | When the IWC was established in 1946 , its purpose was to work for the resuscitation of an industry that was declining because stocks had been over-exploited during the previous decades , rather than to conserve existing whale stocks . |
| 13 | From the 1780s , the mill was worked for the production of both white and brown paper , passing through the hands of J. Stephens , W. Stephens and James Stevens . |
| 14 | He 'd been brought up on a farm and had a way with horses , and his first job when he left school was working for a brewery breaking in the big black cobs they brought over wild from Ireland and put to use as cart-horses dragging the great heavy drays full of ale . |
| 15 | Paul Ride was working for a catering company in Kuwait -- but was arrested and jailed earlier this year after apparently straying accross the border into Iraq . |
| 16 | I was working for a yarn firm who had just gone into the marketing of coned yarns — unfortunately they did not stay the course . |
| 17 | IN 1989 I was working for a community video project called Women 's Media Resources . |
| 18 | The lower classes — if we talk about upper and middle how can we not talk about lower ? — served tea , beer , gin and stodgy food , cut as often as not into hamfisted wedges , fit to fill the belly not the hand , and , understanding that the band was working for a living , treated it with respect and decorum . |
| 19 | He was working for an engineering firm and met Herbert in the course of business . |
| 20 | Stella , unwilling to change his design and substitute a different and cheaper material , was working for the museum on a ‘ sale or return ’ basis and has agreed not to charge the museum . |
| 21 | ‘ So why did Urquhart keep telling me Mills probably was working for the Russians ? ’ |
| 22 | Er I remember it so vividly because it , at our house it was quite er an event because mother and father were so Labour and my brother , who erm he , I do n't know why , he 's not alive today and I ca n't so I , and I 've no idea , I do n't think I ever asked him because I 'd be too young , but I do know that the friction was in the house because he was working for the Conservative and she was the first woman that we ever elected er she , this , this lady did . |
| 23 | ‘ All he told me was that he was working for the Sovbloc desk at Six , and they were looking for a deserter , but he did n't even have Blagg 's name . |
| 24 | She explained to Farmer Plant how she used the outjutting twin branches of the tree as her pony , as she had n't a real one to ride , and how she was working for the Pony Rider badge . |
| 25 | Whilst I was working for the council , someone came to ask and we had some new o new officer appointed and he was very worried about getting ca er p permission from the council to launch a sewer scheme that was going to cost a quarter of a million pounds , a very large amount in those days . |
| 26 | Hayling had been excluded from becoming a Founder first because of his job policing the project for the GLC grant , and then because he was working for the company . |
| 27 | I was working for the company er , in Leicester , called making cotton lisles for twelve years , fifteen years ago . |
| 28 | While he was working for the K.K.K. , he sent the pips to frighten those three men . |
| 29 | The elder son was working for the father as usual . |
| 30 | Mills was probably murdered because he was working for the KGB . |