Example sentences of "and [verb] work for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The art seems to have died out in Crete altogether , yet mysteriously reappeared in Mycenae in the thirteenth century BC ; Sinclair Hood ( 1978 ) has suggested that after the conquest of Minoan Crete by Myceneans , the finest craftsmen may have been taken by force to the mainland and made to work for new masters . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | She equipped herself with secretarial skills when her family was growing up , and has worked for many interesting people and for the Diocese of Bath and Wells with Bishop John Bickersteth . |
| 4 | Mr Sellar , 26 , was previously service engineer at the company and has worked for the company since it was set up . |
| 5 | In the centuries where children were treated like Oliver Twist and worse ; where children were beaten , half-starved , and put to work for sixteen hours a day and more ; it is not surprising that horses were treated no better . |
| 6 | ‘ We recruit people who can identify with our high standards , all staff are recruited with the specific client in mind and continue to work for that client only . |
| 7 | The whole thing was designed to smoke out double agents , to make sure you had n't gone over and started to work for the other side . |
| 8 | And gone to work for the opposition . |
| 9 | After a while , the lad turned up back at the farm and offered to work for two shillings and pay his own insurance stamp . |
| 10 | When he gets you he beats you up for leaving him ; you go back and start working for him again ; then you try to get away from him ; he finds you again and you just go on like this all the time . |
| 11 | Later in India and Africa , entire villages were rounded up and forced to work for minimal wages set by foreign officials . |
| 12 | Two months later the Ashleys hired their most professionally qualified applicant to date in the retail sector , Liza Wanklyn , an American living in Paris , had graduated from design school and had worked for Jean Muir and Givenchy before applying to join ‘ Laura Ashley ’ . |
| 13 | Before becoming deputy chairman of the Defence Council under Gorbachev , Baklanov had been in the CPSU secretariat [ see p. 38131 ] , and had worked for the military-industrial complex . |
| 14 | He was in fact an employee rather than an independent agent and had worked for the defendants for 17 years . |
| 15 | The Emperor deplored the bellicosity of language and continued to work for a peaceful settlement , using the King of the Belgians as an intermediary , at the same time maintaining close contact with the Spanish Ambassador in Paris . |
| 16 | Subsequently , she worked for finance director Derek Henson until his retirement last year and continued to work for his successor Rosemary Thorne . |
| 17 | Spontaneity was given organised form on 11 October when antislavery delegates from Bath , Bristol , Exeter , Gloucester , Taunton , Devizes and Westbury met at Bath and resolved to work for the end of apprenticeship by August 1838 . |