Example sentences of "work [prep] [pers pn] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And erm anyway we got more from the unemployment exchange that prepared to work for him for fourteen pound , when we could have a eighteen pound on the dole . |
| 2 | ‘ Say what you like , there 's no way I 'm going to agree to work for you for three years . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm thrilled that the board have shown faith in me by giving me the chance to work with them for another 12 months . |
| 4 | And I worked for him for five pound a day because we needed the money . |
| 5 | and worked for him for ten years on surveys and designs for many of his works . |
| 6 | She worked for her for eighteen years . |
| 7 | All our buddies that worked for us for 50 years were just living and drinking and eating like fucking Rome … it was just hell and it had to stop . ’ |
| 8 | He worked with them for ten years , initially on the Sydney harbour and Newcastle upon Tyne bridges , and then from 1931 on the design and construction of welded steel bridges , of which his Billingham bridge was the first all-welded bridge in Britain . |
| 9 | An officer who worked alongside her for many years interpreted the fact that he had seen her kneeling at the mercy seat more than any other officer as a sign of her close relationship with God and the constant need for the kind of realignment which requires a certain humbling of oneself . |
| 10 | The defendant firm lawfully terminated the employment of the plaintiff who had worked for them for many years . |
| 11 | Be extra careful with new employees who have worked for you for eight weeks or less . |
| 12 | If your new employee falls sick and has worked for you for eight weeks or less , check whether they have any of these linking letters from the Department of Social Security : BF218 , BF220 , BM7 or BM8 ( or BF219 in Northern Ireland ) . |
| 13 | Such organizations have many other characteristics which anybody who has worked in them for any length of time will recognize . |
| 14 | Well obviously the sad reality of the thing does n't come home to , to our countrymen and a man comes up last week and tells me that he 's been paid off by the Daily Record he 's been working for them for thirty five years and he asked what how much pension will he have and says that he 's getting four years pension . |
| 15 | Ostrovsky had left Israel for Canada , his birthplace , in 1986 when he was dismissed from Mossad after working for them for some 17 months . |
| 16 | Question : Which piece of equipment works for you for 365 days a year , 24 hours a day , saves you money , protects your reputation , helps you comply with the law , and is expected to function without complaint for up to 10 years ? |
| 17 | Walter is backed up by Graham Nicholson , who takes over in July after working with him for 18 months . |
| 18 | Our best wishes go to John and his family and we look forward to working with him for another 15 year . |
| 19 | And they quote epistles of St. Paul so difficult that the theologians , who have been working on them for two thousand years , have not got to the bottom of them . |
| 20 | This bloke , you know , had been working on it for fifty years nonstop and |
| 21 | I 've got three people working on it right now and they 've been working on it for three years . |
| 22 | I 've been working on it for most of the week , so do n't make me mess it up . |
| 23 | Like the grave-diggers in Hamlet , they speculated on life : ‘ We 've been working on it for 25 years and we still have n't got round . |