Example sentences of "[be] working for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You mean you 're working for a calculating machine ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It will tell them enough to alert them if they 're working for the British Government . ’ |
| 3 | If they ca n't commit to high rates of profit , perhaps they should be working for a second-rate firm which plays budgetary games . |
| 4 | Books for Students will be working for the Educational Television Company , which has the contract to publish and distribute the material , and the supply service will trade under ETC 's name . |
| 5 | ‘ We wo n't be working for the whole evening , Ingrid , ’ said Suzi quickly . |
| 6 | A Supreme Court judge , Fabiola Borrero , from the western city of Cali , was shot dead on Sept. 22 by gunmen believed to be working for the Cali drug cartel . |
| 7 | just under one in five CASE students in employment were working for the employing organisation associated with their CASE award ; |
| 8 | ‘ A system for learning ’ on pages 4 and 5 looks at how a participatory method of information collection is working for a rural water and sanitation hygiene education programme in Ecuador . |
| 9 | Now she is working for an advanced diploma in educational management . |
| 10 | Has he been working for a long time ? |
| 11 | ‘ He 's a projects co-ordinator ; been working for a big building company for years . |
| 12 | ‘ Nutrition , ’ John said , after he had been working for a short time . |
| 13 | He sighed tiredly , as though he had been working for a full day with stone and timber , and tried to listen to James Menzies , who was well away , drinking whisky with Allan and simmering with the news from the west , where the lists had been torn down from the church doors at Fortingall and Kenmore , and from Blair Atholl : the Duke 's factor had had to meet a crowd of more than a thousand and the Duke had signed a paper swearing not to impose the Act . |
| 14 | Owen had been working for a consulting company in Washington before deciding to devote himself to the contras , sitting at North 's feet ; despite his deep immersion in murky affairs , he still took a wide-eyed view of the world in which he operated . |
| 15 | … a dreadful distress prevailing and consequent depression … the people are working for a very pittance — 5000 persons on the poor book in Frome — very inadequately relieved … |
| 16 | Generally middle-aged , they may even have children who are working for the left-wing opposition , but their own closed environment has protected them from any understanding of the reality of their country . |
| 17 | World Cup no.8 Glenn Ennis will be travelling from Tokyo , where he and massive lock Norm Hadley are working for the Suntory Corporation , while Scott Steward , who won four caps during the World Cup , two on the wing and two at fullback , will fly from the south of France , where he is playing for Dax . |
| 18 | ‘ I will give you a minute , no more , to tell me if you are working for the British Government or another . |
| 19 | By now Caroline had left the London college and was working for a glossy magazine in Cardiff . |
| 20 | Frank was working for a large nursery and wanted to get into management when his eyesight started to fail . |
| 21 | Here was silly old me thinking I was working FOR the fantastic IPC . |
| 22 | ‘ If he was working for the Private Office in South London on the afternoon in question I should be very surprised indeed . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ At the time , young Steven was working for the Inland Revenue near Strangeways Prison . |
| 24 | At the time Barnard was working for the National Computing Centre , a quasi-governmental organisation in Manchester . |