Example sentences of "[pron] work for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I used to have lunch there occasionally when I worked for Lewis & Arbuckle — marvellous grub , it was . |
| 2 | ‘ I worked for Vincent O'Brien for a year and it 's great to come back here and win my first classic , ’ said trainer John Gosden . |
| 3 | If , in the 1980s a social worker or manager said they were ‘ working on the patch ’ , everyone would murmur reverentially : ‘ Alas , Professor Hadley , I knew him well ’ , or : ‘ I worked for East Sussex once ’ . |
| 4 | The very first time I worked for Heather Wilkinson was just before my thirteenth birthday . |
| 5 | ‘ I worked for personnel . |
| 6 | No , Olive that used to work when I worked for Laura Ashley 's |
| 7 | Then I worked for Jimmy Young for quite a long time … he saved my bacon . |
| 8 | I worked for Department One from 1943 until 1957 when I left the company . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ I worked for Creed , 'Jed went on . |
| 11 | ‘ I worked for Charles Laughton , the actor , and his wife Elsa Lanchester , the actress . |
| 12 | I worked for Group Four before moving to Edinburgh , erm tt I was the accounts manager for the retail division in Group Four . |
| 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 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 16 | During the eight years I worked for Fred Workman he never lectured me on the practice or ethics of journalism , and in assigning me to a story he never told me what to do . |
| 17 | She said I worked for weeks and months on that exam . |
| 18 | I played on four albums for Barry Gibb ; I worked for Dionne Warwick on the ‘ Heartbreaker ’ and some film music for ‘ Staying Alive ’ . |
| 19 | So I works for Mr Francis . |
| 20 | ‘ In the week I work for man , but on Sunday I work for God . |
| 21 | I work for Mrs Medlock . |
| 22 | I I work for NUPE , and three |
| 23 | ‘ I work for Mr Creed . |
| 24 | I work for Paula . |
| 25 | ‘ In the week I work for man , but on Sunday I work for God . |
| 26 | I work for Team Sport Scotland and part of my reignement is erm coordinator for women and girl 's football and I find that with the equal opportunities policies of many of the education regions now that more football is being played in primary and in secondary school and the district councils I go to visit I would say that the majority of them are definitely wanting to put money into promoting girl 's and women 's football . |
| 27 | ‘ And I work for Jack Mason , ’ I said and introduced them . |
| 28 | My name is Les , I work for Wiltshire County Council . |
| 29 | Am I working for you , or am I working for Desmond Morton ? |
| 30 | The most important social division ran between a dominant class based on the legal ownership of industrial and commercial capital ( and sometimes having little to do with either management or labour ) and a population most of which worked for wages . |