Example sentences of "work for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trying to feel better by using more never seems to work for long . |
| 2 | I think you have to see what the system is and then see how you get it to work for yourself . |
| 3 | Maybe he thinks being a Sergeant in the Engineers makes him too good to work for ordinary folk . |
| 4 | I 've only eight working years left now and with all my savings gone , I simply ca n't afford to work for nothing . |
| 5 | Jay had never known it to work for more than weeks . |
| 6 | Here your training intensity is such that you are pushed to work for one minute , let alone the 20 required for aerobic training ! |
| 7 | If we can not beat the system , how can we get it to work for us ? |
| 8 | THREE-quarters of the track including half the through lines , the semaphore signals , the last vestiges of freight facilities and the last of the men who used proudly to work for the old railway company have gone , yet the long-distance service is faster , more frequent and above all better used than at any time in railway history , and the number of passengers passing through probably at an all time high . |
| 9 | Much difficulty could be avoided if the only candidates permitted to work for a PhD were those who were virtually certain to obtain it , but that is not a feasible option in the modern university . |
| 10 | In 1950 , he was Swiss sculls champion and finished third in the European championships before moving to Manila to work for his family 's private multinational company , Eduard Keller Ltd , for four years . |
| 11 | I realise that , if I am accepted , once I have completed my degree I may often have to work for over 80 hours at a stretch during a weekend on call . |
| 12 | In fact , liberal or not , she has come back to work for the ANC , though her exact capacity is not made clear . |
| 13 | That threat , she said , was the reason why interested parties had come together to work for an improvement . |
| 14 | SEOUL ( AFP ) — Pope John Paul II urged South Korea to work for the reunification of the Korean Peninsula peacefully and told the President , Roh Tae Woo , that the division symbolised suffering . |
| 15 | Crossman left Lew to work for Jack Hylton and then , two days after the Second World War began , rejoined Ambrose . |
| 16 | Soon after the Second World War , in which he worked with ENSA ( or ‘ Every-Night-Something-Awful ’ , as he called it ) , he came to work for the music publishing firm of R. Smith and Co Ltd and served as editor of British Bandsman ( the brass band world 's leading newspaper since 1887 ) for 15 years . |
| 17 | As a new graduate , she blew the chance to work for Yves Saint Laurent when she clashed with a fearsomely chic woman while visiting a textile company . |
| 18 | They are usually those days on which your employees are required by their contract to work for you . |
| 19 | Anyway what is wrong with that land of sunshine Australia , that you want to leave it , is it because you have to work for your living there ? ( quoted from Tatchell , Battle , 72 ) |
| 20 | Their women , far from being grateful , turned on them , snarling , in late night conversations telling them to shut up ; far from setting them free to work for the Revolution , their women demanded that they take emotional responsibility and also clean the loos . |
| 21 | There was never a time in Sir Hector Laing 's life when it ever occurred to him to work for any other company than the family business , originally called McVitie $ Price and now known as United Biscuits . |
| 22 | She worked in the Paris office of the New York Herald Tribune for a while and later she went to Switzerland to work for the International Labour Office of the United Nations . |
| 23 | The capitalist system implied a monopoly of these ‘ means of production ’ in the hands of the few , so that the workers had no alternative but to work for the capitalist and on his terms in order to survive . |
| 24 | According to Marx 's theory the many different units were willing to unite and contribute their labour to work for the despot because this appeared , not as working for him , but as working for ‘ the higher unity ’ , which , they wrongly believed , was the source of their continued existence . |
| 25 | Leland and this son Wilfred continued to work for the company . |
| 26 | His next move , also as sous chef , was to Chez Nico to work for Nico Ladenis when he was at Shinfield , Berkshire . |
| 27 | It is a punishing job , and Charles is no easy man to work for . |
| 28 | I 'm in a position to defeat stereotypes , to work for the greater good for women who do n't enjoy the privileges that I have . ’ |
| 29 | The trade unions fear that wage demands may have to be lowered because of the refugees ' greater flexibility and readiness to work for less money . |
| 30 | Last month , Iran 's new leader , President Hashemi Rafsanjani , offered to work for the release of the American hostages held by Islamic extremists in Lebanon along with 10 other foreigners . |