Example sentences of "[adv] worked for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I had not worked for a few months so I was ready to do something , ’ is how he explains his reasons for doing it . |
| 2 | these bloody apologies for drug companies , have you ever worked for a drug company ? |
| 3 | She had indeed once worked for a silversmith but had discovered that it was much easier to buy beads and acquire old pieces of jewellery , rearrange them artistically and sell them on market stalls throughout the country . |
| 4 | If my memory serves me correctly , he had also worked for a while in the office of a chartered accountant , but to no avail . |
| 5 | He has also worked for a period , several years ago with the dye house production control at Templetons . |
| 6 | When he left the Kunstgewerbeschule in 1936 he set up in Zurich as a freelance photograph , a job he fitted in between the traditional periods of military service compulsory in Switzerland , then worked for a year in the famous magazine Graphics . |
| 7 | After graduation he held house appointments at the Royal Victoria Infirmary ( RVI ) , Newcastle upon Tyne , and then worked for a year in pathology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore before becoming house physician at the Hospital for Sick Children , Great Ormond Street , London ( 1939 ) . |
| 8 | After the Law Society Finals she served articles in private practice in Cambridge and then worked for a year as a litigation assistant in a branch office of a Suffolk firm in Mildenhall . |
| 9 | There a chemist who had recently worked for a company involved in the manufacture of submarine telephone cables recognised its similarity to gutta percha — the material used to sheathe such cables . |
| 10 | Local information suggests that it was occasionally worked for a few years after this , but by the 1950s had stopped completely . |