Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] worked for " in BNC.

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1 One of these had married an Indian Christian doctor , and together they worked for the sick and wounded , although badly handicapped by the lack of medicines .
2 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 .
3 A year later he worked for six months for the Eastern Health and Social Services Board in the Belfast area .
4 A year later he worked for six months in the Belfast area .
5 So now he worked for a taxi firm .
6 When he came out he worked for some years at a stud-farm at Henley ( Suffolk ) ; then he went back to smithing and worked for many years at Needham Market , a large village near Ipswich :
7 Well I worked for the past two year really
8 Ah well I worked for one did n't I in Farm
9 After coming here I worked for four months in a sweet factory in Stratford .
10 DeVore who had arranged the deal whereby he worked for the Levers and yet had his own private laboratories .
11 Then I worked for Jimmy Young for quite a long time … he saved my bacon .
12 Then I worked for the BBC — my favourite charity , really .
13 I have no interest to declare in the construction industry , but during my first 10 years in that industry I worked for John Laing , then I worked for Wimpey for about eight years , and I was the head of the largest direct labour organisation in the country — the Greater London council — for nearly three years .
14 Then I worked for Edward Kennedy .
15 How they worked for the dissidents , raised money , edited a Ukrainian language broadsheet .
16 Then he worked for the British . ’
17 Twice he worked for the Wellington City Mission , among the lost and lonely people of the inner city .
18 ‘ The things I 've seen in them vats when I worked for the brewery . ’
19 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 .
20 Mrs Seaton 's husband died so she did n't have no money — that 's why she worked for us .
21 The conclusive Senate vote was scheduled for Oct. 8 , but had to be delayed for seven days following revelation of new evidence from Anita Hill , 35 , a black University of Oklahoma teacher of law , who alleged that Thomas had subjected her to sexual harassment with explicit , pornographic suggestions when she worked for him at the Department of Education and the EEOC in the early 1980s .
22 Lore went as a receptionist to an army hospital in Abergele and then was posted to Canterbury , where she worked for Personnel Selection .
23 At CBS , where she worked for eight years , she remembers up to a hundred tapes pouring into the office each week .
24 He got a job in insurance and the marriage lasted about three years and three months , then Bunny found out that his quiet , dutiful wife had been having an affair with her boss at the food research place where she worked for roughly three years and two months .
25 She grew up in the area , most recently living in Northallerton where she worked for North Yorkshire county council .
26 He had completed his articles with James Edmeston of Bishopsgate before he was twenty , and was involved in several large building projects including Hungerford Market and the Fishmongers Hall ( 1831–4 ) when he worked for Henry Roberts , before he set up on his own .
27 The doctor , who died last summer , broke health service guidelines when he worked for six shifts in a casualty department without warning the hospital involved , it was claimed .
28 Giles was held in high esteem in America and Europe , especially in Berlin , where he worked for a short time .
29 So when a new agent was appointed in Ecclesall in 1912 he was recommended as having come from " the great school of Liverpool , where he worked for Mr James Thompson " .
30 In 1949 he and Rosellina settled in England , where he worked for Picture Post and The Observer .
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