Example sentences of "[was/were] working for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1969 Josef Frolik of the Czechoslovakian intelligence service defected to the CIA with his wife and proceeded to give some startling information about numerous British Labour Party politicians and trade union officials who he claimed were working for the KGB . |
| 2 | So suddenly it had come , all they were working for . |
| 3 | They added that they were working for the government undercover and that they had enough evidence to ‘ make the charge stick ’ . |
| 4 | Indeed , given the level of activity within the Six at this time and the patent way in which Britain 's Grand Design seemed to go against everything they were working for , it is surprising that the Six were willing to discuss the scheme in the first place . |
| 5 | The first real headhunting firms — in the first phase of headhunting — insisted that they were working for the company , not the candidate , and the company was paying the bill . |
| 6 | ‘ All three were working for INCUBUS — or had been until recently . |
| 7 | We had the potent , theoretical motivator of vast unemployment in the area , and those who were working for us were considered to be the fortunate . |
| 8 | worked for them and you qualified while you were working for them . |
| 9 | I asked , ‘ How much did it mean to you to know that people at home were working for your release ? ’ |
| 10 | From the letter Brian had received from the newspaper last November , we knew that his sisters and friends were working for him and we had also heard that Jill , Nick Toksvig and other friends were active on my behalf . |
| 11 | He had a large office in Port au Prince , a big house , and hundreds of people were working for him . |
| 12 | These were working for a pay of from 9d. a day to 2/6 . |
| 13 | The 363 students in or about to start work at the end of the IT Advanced Course ( 58 per cent ) were working for 192 different employing organisations ( see Appendix A ) . |
| 14 | Students funded by SERC were working for 133 different employers . |
| 15 | just under one in five CASE students in employment were working for the employing organisation associated with their CASE award ; |
| 16 | My understanding was that you were working for and that you would send your invoice to him . |
| 17 | he was ill or something or going away and erm er the church we were working for was invited to take it over . |
| 18 | And all the other farmers were paying the guys who were working for them on the side , ten pound a day , for working from nine o'clock in the morning till about five at night . |
| 19 | Well we started off and we were working for . |
| 20 | But we were working for him then for fourteen pound a week . |
| 21 | And we were working for for fourteen pound at that time . |
| 22 | We were working for , my father was er earning one pound sixteen shillings a week before the war . |
| 23 | Where you aw aw aw a a aware of that you were in a a b business that was succeeding when you were working for him ? |
| 24 | But in this quarry now in when we were working for everybody was on the same bonus , you know they was they were all partners . |
| 25 | He had about a dozen lorries on the road , and machines er working the roads there , all they were working for nothing for him , these lads and he 'd come along and before Christmas he 'd stop a couple of them , just before Christmas , he used to do that every year . |
| 26 | By 1972 Hatfield had over 1800 full-time students and 1000 part-time students , a quarter of whom were working for bachelors or masters degrees and the others for higher technician or professional qualifications . |
| 27 | But they knew they were working for him , and each of them was hoping that if the jewel were found it would be he who would have found it . |
| 28 | * Is your sickness due to an accident which happened while you were working for an employer ? |
| 29 | * Is your sickness due to a prescribed industrial disease caused by conditions at work , while you were working for an employer ? |
| 30 | If you and I were working for an organization which gave say half a million to charity , our , I mean correct me if I 'm wrong , but I , I 'm sure our temptation would be to say how can we promote this giving in the media in order , let's be honest about it , to make our , us look good , partly that would be it . |