Example sentences of "[vb past] work for [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He happened to work for the same paper which stitched Botham up some eight years ago . |
| 2 | The day after I finished working for the managing director of a certain company fighting off a take-over bid , the agency sent me to the rival company . ’ |
| 3 | The whole thing was designed to smoke out double agents , to make sure you had n't gone over and started to work for the other side . |
| 4 | I therefore started working for the first time in my life . |
| 5 | The Emperor deplored the bellicosity of language and continued to work for a peaceful settlement , using the King of the Belgians as an intermediary , at the same time maintaining close contact with the Spanish Ambassador in Paris . |
| 6 | She married a colleague who then left to work for a rival firm . |
| 7 | Since we needed someone to skin and look after the specimens we collected , we eventually employed a lanky youth called Yusuf German who had worked for a Greek taxidermist in the town . |
| 8 | Speaking at his home at James Street , Falkirk , Graeme explained that before the incident , he had worked for a short spell on a YTS course with ScotRail , before taking a job as a gardener . |
| 9 | She had worked for a bent company running credit checks on people , had temped for an employment agency , a bank , and as a telephonist . |
| 10 | In spite of these initial advantages , furnishing fabrics , as clothes , were badly in need of overall direction and it was also in Paris that a young woman who had no formal design training but had worked for the exclusive Colefax and Fowler , was hired . |
| 11 | Gabriella Gast , 47 , who had worked for the Federal Counterintelligence Agency ( Bundesnachrichtendienst — BND ) since 1973 and had access to the weekly intelligence report sent to Kohl , was arrested as announced on Oct. 2 . |
| 12 | She had also acquired a solid grounding in revolutionary politics and in France had worked for the Boulangist cause . |
| 13 | In the administrative sphere it decided to operate through the traditional élites which had worked for the Jordanian government . |
| 14 | The CDU parliamentary group had accused Gies ( who had headed the CDU list but had not won a direct seat in the October 1990 Landtag election ) of obliging three other CDU delegates to resign after that election by alleging that they had worked for the former East German " Stasi " security police . |
| 15 | The process of forming a government was slowed by numerous allegations that as many as 10 per cent of new deputies had worked for the former Ministry of State Security police ( " Stasi " ) as active informants . |
| 16 | As she had worked for the civil service previously , she applied and was sent a booklet which specified an age range for applicants of 17 ½ to 28 years . |
| 17 | He had worked for the same firm for 16 years without working on a Sunday because of his objection to working on a Sunday and his wish to stay at home and then to go to church . |
| 18 | He had worked for the same engineering firm for thirty years and he had always set great store by the company pension . |
| 19 | Marshal Yevgeny Shaposhnikov , while Andrei Kokoshin had worked for the foreign policy " think-tank " , the USA and Canada Institute . |
| 20 | Before becoming deputy chairman of the Defence Council under Gorbachev , Baklanov had been in the CPSU secretariat [ see p. 38131 ] , and had worked for the military-industrial complex . |
| 21 | He rhapsodized about Franklin Roosevelt who , he said , was still regarded " almost as a god in place like West Virginia " , because , although rich , he had worked for the common people . |