Example sentences of "[pron] worked for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I remember being fascinated by the story when I worked for a while in the Royal Library . |
| 2 | ‘ I worked for a bit when I was about eighteen . |
| 3 | After I left university , I worked for a Black community project and joined a Black socialist group . |
| 4 | I worked for a photographic company |
| 5 | It 's not as if I worked for a large network news show . |
| 6 | Then I was able to er go for my own self , you know and er I went on doing locks , one thing and another , best I could and all that sort of thing and I worked for a , a bloke what was in there er be a little bloke but he was the best locksmith in the shop and I went to help him and er he used to give me all the to do and this and that and the other . |
| 7 | I worked for a month then I went to the dyers and cleaners and I came home to Ipswich in the , on the Easter time and I started work as a turnboy on the dredger at Ipswich at thirty five shillings a week for fi sixty six and a half hours a week , starting from Monday morning at six o'clock to six o'clock Monday night . |
| 8 | I worked for a , for a like a , it 's a money brokers in , in London but exactly the same stockbroking , and it was exactly like the film , you know , they had this , they had this room , like they had one of those long rooms as well you know with all the desks and computers and stuff but they had this one enclosed off room where all the dealers sat round this massive like circular console type table , and like they were all under thirty but like overweight , all c driving Porsches and taking coke and shit like this and right they just , they got into the office at something like six in the morning like I 'd get in at nine and I 'd be , be wandering around they 'd just have their trousers open , shoes off , |
| 9 | ‘ The colonel said you worked for a travel agency as an assessor of foreign locations . |
| 10 | It was also during this period that we had the strangest set of photographs taken of us , by Peter Christopherson who worked for a design company , Hipgnosis — whose offices were at the back of our Denmark Street HQ — and who later joined Throbbing Gristle , a band best known for tabloid spreads on their occult practices . |
| 11 | The name given to an Icelandic shepherd who worked for a farmer named Thorwall . |
| 12 | The currency dealer , who worked for a US investment bank in London , stole £3 million — but promised to pay back £2 million in return for immunity . |
| 13 | ( Their father , who worked for a specialist printer , died three-and-a-half years ago . ) |
| 14 | Troy Hurtibese , who worked for a bungee team called the Adrenalin Rush Adventurers , died on the way to hospital . |
| 15 | The death by drowning of a girl who worked for a Minister of the Crown and who died after dining at the restaurant where the Minister 's wife was also dining , whether or not he himself was present , would normally have justified at least a brief paragraph in one of the national papers . |
| 16 | Mr Mafouz , a big , jolly man who worked for a travel agent , was compiling a dossier on him . |
| 17 | The list of British craft union leaders of this period is filled with men who worked for a spell in the United States or somewhere else overseas , as they might have worked for a spell in Newcastle or Barrow-in-Furness . |
| 18 | No wonder he could n't understand anyone who worked for a living . |
| 19 | It ends months of financial worry for Alan Govier , who worked for a printing firm for forty-nine years . |
| 20 | A postmortem examination at Middlesbrough General Hospital carried out by Home Office pathologist Dr James Sunter revealed that Mr McEvoy , who worked for a local bus company , died of a gunshot wound . |
| 21 | Neurosurgeons have already operated on Michael , who worked for a local builders ' merchant , and a team of specialists are keeping a round-the-clock watch on his condition . |
| 22 | She worked for a while in a shop , then she began to have trouble with her eyes and took in work at home . |
| 23 | She had for a while become a Monotype operator , on one of the " women 's machines " , and also remembers " trying to do imposition " and doing a little display work in one mainly jobbing firm where she worked for a short time . |
| 24 | She left elementary school at fourteen to take a job filling seed packets for five shillings a week ; later she worked for a draper and subsequently for the Co-op , where she joined the union movement of which she was to be a lifelong member . |
| 25 | Well she 's worked she works for a tour operator , she worked for a |
| 26 | Forcing herself , she worked for an hour or two on the great heap of stuff purloined from the skips that lay in a corner of the hall ; fitting a curtain here , laying a rug there . |
| 27 | We worked for a wider Europe , international peace , development and disarmament . |
| 28 | But our rate was fixed , the girls 's rate We worked for a fixed rate . |
| 29 | The Chiefs of Staff took the unusual step of going down to the Royal Naval College , Greenwich , in the late spring of 1952 , where they worked for a fortnight on Churchill 's requirement with their principal scientific and technological advisers , free from the day-to-day hubbub of Whitehall . |
| 30 | Domestic servants and white-collar workers , though they worked for a wage , are classified separately because they are easily distinguishable in the colonial sources . |