Example sentences of "[pron] worked for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After I left the council , I worked for the council for ten years and then I stopped the council in nineteen forty six for I I telled you that afore have I . |
| 2 | and I worked for the council so he spoke to me one day and he said , Will you cut the roads with a tractor and a mower . |
| 3 | I worked for the rest of the morning and in the late afternoon , rang Highbury to tell them I was safely back and ask how they fared . |
| 4 | ‘ The things I 've seen in them vats when I worked for the brewery . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ To begin with , I worked for the family , pushing the churns round the streets on the milk-cart , but then I got too old for that , and I applied for work with the Dock workers Guild at Jubilee Wharf . ’ |
| 6 | I 'd told her I worked for the Post and she said she 'd already told Rain all about it . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Well , if you worked for the blacksmith , ’ this old man said , ‘ that was me ! ’ |
| 8 | If you worked for the probation service |
| 9 | One of the early residents was a shepherd , who worked for the farmer who owned the farm on the hill behind the building , and the stock grazed on the open fields . |
| 10 | Servants were people who worked for the government or for a company : in Kufra 68 per cent , in Ajdabiya 52 per cent of men were government servants , about one third of them conscripts . |
| 11 | Yong 's father was appalled at the idea , but was finally persuaded to invest in fifty tons of raw salt , to be used in the curing of the venison which abounded in the Eastern islands , as well as several hundred plastic chairs , and a quantity of spare diving equipment for the pearl-shellers who worked for the Aru branch of the Tan family . |
| 12 | Most of the guys who worked for the company were gay — and Cherry Vanilla was the female press officer — she was outrageous . |
| 13 | The photograph shows ex-shop manager Jim Charlton ( right ) who worked for the company for 51 years , with new Midland Mills manager Peter Seward and his three-year-old daughter Emma , who is sporting the latest Jarol gear . |
| 14 | In the Annual Report published in July , Hugh Laughland , Chairman of Stoddard Sekers International PLC , praised the efforts of all who worked for the company . |
| 15 | Val Smith , 35 , who worked for the company for 19 years before she was sacked , said : ‘ Closure has always been on the cards . |
| 16 | In the book The Soul of a New Machine , Tracy Kidder quotes a secretary who worked for the Eagle Team under the visionary Tom West . |
| 17 | Yet another suspect category were the many spetsy ( bourgeois specialists ) who worked for the Commissariat . |
| 18 | Over lunch , Dobson regaled Branson with a tale of how Private Eye had suppressed a story about adulterous liaisons at a national newspaper — precisely the kind of story in which the Eye habitually delighted — because of the interests of some Eye contributors who worked for the paper . |
| 19 | In 1961 the Club was developing a more commercial approach to itself , in no small measure owing to Jack Webb who worked for the Club 's accountant , Spencer Ell . |
| 20 | I had a friend who worked for the oil people , and I decided to stay after a visit to this place . |
| 21 | The IRA regarded civilians who worked for the security forces as " legitimate targets " , but the attacks on civilian workers prompted several joint protest demonstrations by Catholic and Protestant workers . |
| 22 | Greek tradition ascribed the ‘ invention ’ of bronze-casting to two Samians , Rhoikos and Theodoros , who worked for the tyrant Polykrates as architects ( Theodoros also as gem-engraver , above p. 39 ) . |
| 23 | As we were mixing the B side , this guy called Calvin Mark Lee , who worked for the record company , was actually off at Philips cutting the A side . |
| 24 | Freddie , who worked for the youth department of the Jewish community in Rosenstrasse , had organised and travelled with many transports , until finally he was warned : ‘ You either stay in England or you 've had it . ’ |
| 25 | The Crown lawyer said the court would hear that the probable target was a man who worked for the Environment Department and whose tasks also involved working at Ministry of Defence properties . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm pleased with it , ’ Maria responded warily , reminding herself that she worked for the man . |
| 27 | As Beatrice and Orage became lovers , she worked for the paper , assuming increasing importance editorially and soon writing about a third of the contents herself as reviewer , poet , satirist and literary adviser . |
| 28 | You had to , we worked for the castronery at the back . |
| 29 | He worked for the council and was responsible for the sewage outfall until we had the new drainage scheme . ’ |
| 30 | A graduate of Cambridge University , he worked for the accountancy firm , Coopers and Lybrand , before joining P&O Containers in 1973 . |