Example sentences of "working for [pron] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Most people ensure that they spend their lives working for something which they think has a future , and which will provide the sort of life and opportunity that they wish for themselves and their dependants .
3 And she likes that garden and she does n't mind working for something on that .
4 You know , because they 're the few main things round here , you 're happy , and you can feel that obviously you , you 'll be working for something .
5 JD recalls : ‘ That was a design I thought about when I first started working for myself .
6 ‘ I wanted the freedom of working for myself .
7 ‘ 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 . ’
8 ‘ I simply prefer the challenge of working for myself ! ’
9 I ca n't be certain how much I would have been earning working for myself … ’
10 Almost the opposite to of er what I 'm looking at er coming from er being employed by larger companies to basically working for myself .
11 But if apprenticeship was to work as its devisers hoped it relied upon the interest of freedmen in working for themselves in the time they were allotted and their generosity if their work for their former masters was to be energetic .
12 The er you 'll be interested I think , those of you who 've not met the er independent taxation changes that have come about , there 's a great booklet a great series of books on er independent taxation about people who are considering working for themselves there 's some booklets .
13 So they had to , the they were purely working for themselves ?
14 Aye I should think so , unless they 're working for themselves right .
15 He may be completely landless , or it may be that his plot is n't big enough and he has to spend part of his time , or part of his family has to spend part of their time , working for somebody else to get in some extra money or possibly renting land from somebody else .
16 Cos er San Sandra agreed in the end she said oh I said you can do it on your own , you can have the nine quid if you like yourself I said but I 'm not coming with you I said for three hours working for somebody who 's twenty five .
17 If you 're just working for somebody else .
18 Debating parliamentary reform in the Dail early in 1983 they were complaining of being " almost totally engaged in working for their constituents " , " whistling with exhaustion under the sheer burden of constituency work " .
19 ‘ So they 're a splinter group working for their own evil purposes rather than for the island 's status quo ? ’
20 diplomats working for their release say they hope the pair will be out within days if not hours .
21 Our fundamental assumption must be that genes are ‘ selfish ’ entities , working for their own propagation in the gene pool of the species .
22 The more the standards are imposed by the teacher , the more the pupils are ‘ working for their teacher ’ , rather than for themselves .
23 Sunrise Radio bosses revealed that staff working for their new Leicester-based Midlands service have received chilling death threats in the middle of the night from a mystery caller .
24 " To prepare the Europeans for the idea of playing an increased role in working for their own defence , " he said , " I suggested to President Bush , and he agreed , that we propose to our allies to hold a NATO summit before the end of the year . "
25 He 's always been fond of animals and spent much of his life working for their welfare .
26 Training is usually on the job and the main employers are the large commercial potteries concentrated in the North Staffordshire area , although there is nothing to stop you working for yourself at home .
27 Thinking of Working for Yourself ( IR 57 )
28 I usually mention briefly on going into business on your own account , working for yourself , but I 'll develop that later that that 's one of the things I can dr drop out altogether if w depending on the type of group I 'm with .
29 ‘ And , if I may say so , my suspicions are that you 'll be making a considerably better living on the salary I pay you than you would have made working for yourself … ’
30 Like it 's different if you 're working for yourself because at the end of the day it all goes in your own pocket .
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