Example sentences of "[pron] worked for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , this orgy of food and sex would have suited the dear departed Peter Langan ( with whom I worked for four years ) very nicely . |
| 2 | After coming here I worked for four months in a sweet factory in Stratford . |
| 3 | Following this period in the homoeopathic hospital I worked for two years in a professorial immunological unit where I set up studies in allergy to assess the efficacy of homoeopathic remedies in house-dust-mite allergy and hay fever ( allergy to grass pollens ) . |
| 4 | He says an which he says you 've worked so hard , cos I worked for two casters which I should n't have done really , but that 's how I were used to working you see and er , he said er , I said well me dad keeps asking me to go and work for him , and he said well I 'll tell you what I 'll do with you , he says you 've worked so hard for us , this bloke came from Bloxford you know He says you 've worked so hard for us , he said we 'll agree to you going with your father , er for a month and see whether you like it , and if you do n't like it , come back and we 'll give you your job back . |
| 5 | ‘ For two years after college graduation , I worked for one of the small local accounting firms . |
| 6 | I worked for one of the youngest couples on our street , who were so chic they even had an Afghan hound . |
| 7 | ‘ Before I escaped from Rotterdam , I worked for British Intelligence . |
| 8 | Yeah I worked for fives years I 've plenty of practice |
| 9 | I was my own boss for a start — the man I worked for left after about seven months , and the man who took over did n't know anything about it : I knew more about the job than he did , so I had to tell him what to do for the first six months … in fact he tried to get the job upgraded anyway . |
| 10 | Before having my first child four years ago , I worked for several years as a secretary at the head office of Sainsbury 's in Canterbury , and a further year as a personal assistant for Kent County Council . |
| 11 | I used to run an English and Scottish dancing class at the old high school in Cleveland Avenue , before it became Hummersknot School in 1955 where I worked for 22 years part-time , teaching dance . |
| 12 | The company I worked for folded just a couple of weeks ago . ’ |
| 13 | Oh no I worked for another one but her name 's not Liz it 's Alison , but I do n't like working for her and that 's why I 've stopped , I said to Sandra I 'm not fucking scrubbing for somebody younger than me . |
| 14 | I worked for last summer and they they did this there , and total quality management meetings . |
| 15 | ‘ I worked for three years in the Collector of Taxes department , which was really just shuffling papers and asking for money . |
| 16 | I worked for three years as a school counsellor in South Brompton , and the majority of the children who came my way were children who had some degree of behavioural difficulty or emotional disturbance . |
| 17 | I always get on very well with English prisoners of the R. A. F. I worked for some time at the prison camp where you 'll be going tomorrow , and there I made many good English friends , especially — . ’ |
| 18 | The Alpha 's ability to delete a whole effect from a patch ( or add another ) is a godsend , and I found it useful to dispense with the equaliser , which worked for some sounds but definitely not for others . |
| 19 | You said you worked for twenty years about , |
| 20 | Can I , you the example you did before to other people was that if you worked you know your normal scheme forty years and if you worked for ten of those forty years you become deferred . |
| 21 | But the main challenge comes from a lawyer , Manfred Brunner , who worked for one of Germany 's two European commissioners , Martin Bangemann . |
| 22 | But the inspectors have exonerated three chartered accountants who worked for Blue Arrow , although some of their actions were also criticised . |
| 23 | Mr Wheeler , an engineer who worked for many years in the oil business , is a pleasant , slightly worried-looking man who can not bear the fact that no one seems to realise just what lengths he goes to in order to keep the plant squeaky clean and emission-free . |
| 24 | On the other side of the entrance to Garden Cottages was a small house in the occupation of Mr. Truckle who was a coalman and his wife who worked for many years at The Salisbury Steam Laundry . |
| 25 | The clock now stands beside the one given to her husband , who worked for many years at Glazier Metals Ltd . |
| 26 | Previously Bill who worked for many years as sales manager with G.U.S . |
| 27 | It goes on , correctly , to show how Jack Blum , an investigator who worked for Democratic Senator John Kerry 's subcommittee on terrorism , narcotics and international Relations , played a key role in persuading the New York district attorney , Robert Morgenthau , to take an interest in BCCI and begin his own investigation . |
| 28 | The 73-year-old spinster , who worked for three generations of the same family for 56 years , was dragged 30 yards before falling under the giant wheels . |
| 29 | But the other place , Barlop , er anybody who worked for less , they did . |
| 30 | While still in London she worked for many other causes , campaigning from 1869 for the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts and organizing relief for the refugees from Turkish atrocities against the Bulgars in 1876 . |