Example sentences of "[verb] to work for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let him take his chauffeur 's cap off very slowly and say softly to me , ‘ oh sir , I do n't never want to work for anyone else , never ’ ; let him kneel by the side of the great bed , in the moonlight , and let him lean over to kiss me gently on the lips and to run his leather-gloved hand tenderly across my cheek , across my lips , through my hair , saying all the time , ‘ oh sir , I 'm here sir , I 'm right here , I 'm right here by the bed ; was you calling me sir , did you call me ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't want to work for you , I 'm employed very nicely working for myself and the name of Morgan is respected already in town , which is more than can be said for that of the Grenfells . ’ |
| 3 | And if anyone is callous enough to check on that story then I would n't want to work for them anyway . |
| 4 | This had been doubly hurtful , for it meant that she not only did not want to work for and look after him but preferred his lifestyle to her own , and by implication ( for she was a lazy woman ) that meant that she considered what he did not to be work at all , merely a pleasurable means of making a great deal of money . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't want to work for you ! |
| 6 | Its 200-page Environmental Management for Hotels : The Industry Guide to Best Practice , to be launched on Mar 21 , points out that energy conservation measures pay for themselves through cost saving and hence improve the business ' competitiveness ; that the pressure is on worldwide to demonstrate commitment to the sustainable development of tourism ; that staff will want to work for companies with good environmental practices ; that concern for the environment is shared by an increasing number of those involved in hotels ; and that a good track record in the field helps when developing new ventures or projecting a brand image . |
| 7 | He might turn up he might turn up and then say no sorry twenty grand forget it , do n't want to work for you anyway . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Say what you like , there 's no way I 'm going to agree to work for you for three years . |
| 10 | After two years in the London office of Heidrick and Struggles , Kidd felt that he would prefer to work for a British firm and employ the systems he had designed . |
| 11 | Yes , yes , he 's organised it Chris has had to go to work for two days this week . |
| 12 | Several weeks later he was approached by the same man and a colleague in a Dungannon street , when he was ‘ explicitly asked to work for and provide information for them . ’ |
| 13 | Also in group situations , it may be the case that the senior executives are employed by the top company , so it will be necessary if they are to continue to work for the target to negotiate with each of them a revision to their service agreements . |
| 14 | ‘ Many people with this disease are able to continue to work for a very long time and there is no evidence to suggest that her condition and the error are necessarily linked . ’ |
| 15 | In 1954 the Nordic Council agreed to work for as comprehensive a Nordic common market as possible , and a committee was set up to study the question . |
| 16 | Prunskiene , who had resigned as Prime Minister on Jan. 8 , 1991 [ see p. 37944 ] , consistently denied the accusations ( made in April — see p. 38880 ) , claiming that a document bearing her signature in which she agreed to work for the KGB was a forgery and that the trial was politically motivated . |
| 17 | The Sinn Fein man claimed two plain-clothes men approached Mr Fox in Thomas Street , Dungannon on September 2 and promised him a new house if he agreed to work for them . |
| 18 | If she wants to work for the organization I 'm sure we 'll find something suitable for her . " |
| 19 | If you can not find a language helper who only wants to work for one hour a day , try hiring someone to do gardening or housework for you on a more fulltime basis and then use that person also as a language helper until you reach the stage where you can cope with a fulltime language helper . |
| 20 | But I loved their products and was dying to work for them . ’ |
| 21 | Similarly , in an effort to reach an accommodation with women trade unionists , the NUSEC rejected the traditional nineteenth-century feminist opposition to protective legislation , pledging to work for the extension of such legislation to men rather than opposing it for women . |
| 22 | The massacre of 17 Inkatha members in a roadside ambush in Natal on Feb. 10 , which a local Inkatha official blamed on ANC supporters , was followed by the signature of a joint statement on Feb. 11 by Mandela and the chairman of the Inkatha Freedom Party , Frank Mdlalose , pledging to work for " peace and political tolerance among our people " , and to " uncover the roots of these acts of violence " . |
| 23 | When the converted attained the faith they were no longer merely formal Christians and were predisposed to work for a righteous world . |
| 24 | Then I had to be honest , and say that I could not guarantee to work for longer than four months . |
| 25 | He next moved to work for Courage and then on to Kerridges , where he was employed in the accounts department . |
| 26 | In 1990 he moved to work for Wimpey Minerals in the US as chief financial officer . |
| 27 | They are also likely to be the most difficult , independent , bad-tempered , and stubborn ; but if they want to work for you they have the strength of character to extend themselves to their utmost limits , and further than other horses . |
| 28 | And I 've also gone for quality clients , companies I want to work for and who I know will pay on time . ’ |
| 29 | air-hostesses who want to work for Oxfam ( but do n't — perhaps it 's the pay |
| 30 | I did that one day when things got hairier than usual , went down to where some bandit was trying to rip us off and practically rubbed beards with him and shouted into his face I Want To Work For Christ 's Sake Let Me Work , but Vic said that was n't being helpful . |