Example sentences of "work for [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd like to work for one of the building societies and get a cheap mortgage . |
| 2 | I would work for one of the major charities , perhaps , or maybe go for a job in publishing . |
| 3 | " Why not work for one of the papers in our group in South Wales ? " |
| 4 | I 'm sixty-one as it is and , truth told , I could n't work for one of them . ’ |
| 5 | " Did you work for one of the suppliers ? " |
| 6 | Well if that 's case she can go and work for one of the taxi companies and sit in their office and ans |
| 7 | If you 've already got one , check with us that he or she is acceptable for preparing mortgage documents : if the same one can work for both of us , you 'll save money . |
| 8 | ‘ On November 1 they told us that normal Christmas arrangements would apply — that we would work for most of the holiday period — then they dropped this bombshell on November 22 and said we would be off for two weeks . |
| 9 | ‘ For two years after college graduation , I worked for one of the small local accounting firms . |
| 10 | I worked for one of the youngest couples on our street , who were so chic they even had an Afghan hound . |
| 11 | But the main challenge comes from a lawyer , Manfred Brunner , who worked for one of Germany 's two European commissioners , Martin Bangemann . |
| 12 | Can I , you the example you did before to other people was that if you worked you know your normal scheme forty years and if you worked for ten of those forty years you become deferred . |
| 13 | The governments ' answer , it seems , is to go back to the ERM as it worked for most of the 1980s — a more flexible ERM , in which exchange-rate realignments happened now and then , instead of being resisted at all costs . |
| 14 | ‘ One thing I still find hard to take in is how hard my mother worked for all of us . |
| 15 | has considerable experience of the French pet food industry , having previously worked for one of the country 's major manufacturers . |
| 16 | He claims to have worked for three of Britain 's leading racing teams in the 1970 ‘ s , including that of Graham Hill , perhaps Britain 's greatest-ever driver . |
| 17 | Despite the fact that he had worked for most of the period of his contract in England , lived in England , was paid in English currency and paid National Insurance contributions in the UK , he was at all times liable to be recalled to Dhaka . |
| 18 | Another man , a colleague in the newspaper industry in London , left the office where he had worked for most of his adult life to travel home for the weekend . |
| 19 | Yeah I said well I earn half of it as well then and I 've worked for half of it , but I ai n't paying the bills either |
| 20 | John has a wealth of experience in the hotel business , having worked for some of the largest chains in the country including a stint at the Savoy in London . |
| 21 | Several minutes later he added : ‘ But I would not like to give you the impression I have worked for either of them yet . ’ |
| 22 | Utilitarian knowledge is related to those non-professional vocations in which the majority of people work for most of their adult life . |
| 23 | Most work for most of their lives outside the home . |
| 24 | The other day , as a small example , I met a young trainee manager working for one of the few substantial Northern Ireland engineering firms . |
| 25 | Life in New York , working for one of the world 's greatest auction houses , may seem glamorous , but as Christopher Hartop explains , it can involve scholarship , tact , diplomacy and hard work . |
| 26 | In Africa she had enjoyed the company of men and many had come under her spell including government inspectors , colleagues from other teacher training establishments and senior staff working for one of the major publishing houses . |
| 27 | George has spent several years working for one of Office Cleaning 's main suppliers prior to joining Rentokil . |
| 28 | He never writes a memo saying you know we are supporting or attacking this government as about this election campaign , never , but journalists know what his view is and they write in a code with that view and if they did n't they would quickly find out where they should be and it would not be working for one of those newspapers and the thing that 's quite perverse about it is the . |
| 29 | Perhaps buyers are continually raising the problem that the salesperson is working for one of the smallest companies in the industry . |
| 30 | Working for most of her life in a nursery-garden , Leapor 's own labour was particularly associated with what Barrell calls the content of landscape . |