Example sentences of "used work [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | True , they would have had a stronger showing had not their former prime minister , Lothar de Maizière , stepped down before the election amid charges ( which he denies , and which an inquiry looks set to discuss ) that he used to work for the former East German secret police . |
| 2 | There is a bar by the roadside , further on , and I 'll enquire there , as I think the landlady used to work for the Harvey-Beaumonts . |
| 3 | ‘ But he used to work for the gas board , did n't he ? ’ said the boy . |
| 4 | ‘ It was sixty years ago since I left this place , I used to work for the blacksmith . ’ |
| 5 | Cos , you used to work for the castronery had to pay you see , not the firm . |
| 6 | ‘ I used to work for the bugger — you know that , do n't you ? ’ |
| 7 | According to the family he rarely used it except on Sundays when he spent the afternoon and evening with an old chap who used to work for the firm and now lives in sheltered accommodation at Carbis Bay . |
| 8 | We have Whitewater Leisure , Contemporary Leisure and all the controversy about those who used to work for the Glasgow authority . |
| 9 | And she used to work for the TSB bank . ’ |
| 10 | Harry , who used to work for the coal board , cites Graham Gooch as his favourite cricketer . |
| 11 | Cathryn used to work with the Social Work Department in Craigmillar , but took up a fixed term post at Haddington once the decision was taken to go on tour . |
| 12 | See the , we used to work with the five . |
| 13 | K. M. When I used to work on the dockside , it was a hive of activity , all the horses and the steam-engines parked along the street . |
| 14 | You 've got to make sure that you 're in good health , and you 're a er hale and hearty individual , so if you 're from a long lived family , erm I once er made a mistake on er delivering one of these courses and er I think erm erm there 's an elderly lady used to work on the course , do you remember Miss , Miss ? |
| 15 | I used to work on the ne , the ne er , drill . |
| 16 | There is a certain Asian anaesthetist who used to work at the City Hospital Maternity Unit . |
| 17 | The point of mentioning John is that he used to work at the massive Hoover plant in West London . |
| 18 | Used to work at the laundry in Bonner Street . |
| 19 | And we realized on reflection , had Freda have not volunteered early enough , another lady who used to work at the station played , u plays for Nigel when he does his gigs . |
| 20 | Yeah , well she used to work at the station in the offices . |
| 21 | ‘ Mark used to work in the newspaper industry , but he got kicked out when they brought in all the new technology you hear about . |
| 22 | The English boy used to work in the hospital for a day at a time , and then be off for several days . |
| 23 | For instance , Nam Tran , who presents the Saturday television programme , used to work in the American embassy ; her husband was a pilot in the Vietnamese air force . |
| 24 | When I was a postulant , or aspirant young novice , I used to work in the laundry . |
| 25 | ‘ Jos used to work in the forest . |
| 26 | In the summer Henry James used to work in the ‘ Garden Room ’ which had been built apart from the house as a banqueting room . |
| 27 | A former accountant who used to work in the music industry with Tony Visconti ( David Bowie 's producer ) , he now has a hit of his own with the quoted company The Pelican Group . |
| 28 | Kiichi Miyazawa , the prime minister , used to work in the finance ministry , which oversees the tax office . |
| 29 | She wor used to work in the kipper industry , and she 'd had smallpox once , knocked her off cos you should have seen her face . |
| 30 | My wife used to work in the Education Department , incidentally |