Example sentences of "[pron] worked for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I remember being fascinated by the story when I worked for a while in the Royal Library . |
| 2 | ‘ I worked for a bit when I was about eighteen . |
| 3 | I worked for a month then I went to the dyers and cleaners and I came home to Ipswich in the , on the Easter time and I started work as a turnboy on the dredger at Ipswich at thirty five shillings a week for fi sixty six and a half hours a week , starting from Monday morning at six o'clock to six o'clock Monday night . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ The things I 've seen in them vats when I worked for the brewery . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | I 'd told her I worked for the Post and she said she 'd already told Rain all about it . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ The colonel said you worked for a travel agency as an assessor of foreign locations . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , if you worked for the blacksmith , ’ this old man said , ‘ that was me ! ’ |
| 12 | If you worked for the probation service |
| 13 | The name given to an Icelandic shepherd who worked for a farmer named Thorwall . |
| 14 | Mr Mafouz , a big , jolly man who worked for a travel agent , was compiling a dossier on him . |
| 15 | ( Their father , who worked for a specialist printer , died three-and-a-half years ago . ) |
| 16 | The death by drowning of a girl who worked for a Minister of the Crown and who died after dining at the restaurant where the Minister 's wife was also dining , whether or not he himself was present , would normally have justified at least a brief paragraph in one of the national papers . |
| 17 | It ends months of financial worry for Alan Govier , who worked for a printing firm for forty-nine years . |
| 18 | The list of British craft union leaders of this period is filled with men who worked for a spell in the United States or somewhere else overseas , as they might have worked for a spell in Newcastle or Barrow-in-Furness . |
| 19 | No wonder he could n't understand anyone who worked for a living . |
| 20 | Troy Hurtibese , who worked for a bungee team called the Adrenalin Rush Adventurers , died on the way to hospital . |
| 21 | It was also during this period that we had the strangest set of photographs taken of us , by Peter Christopherson who worked for a design company , Hipgnosis — whose offices were at the back of our Denmark Street HQ — and who later joined Throbbing Gristle , a band best known for tabloid spreads on their occult practices . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Most of the guys who worked for the company were gay — and Cherry Vanilla was the female press officer — she was outrageous . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Val Smith , 35 , who worked for the company for 19 years before she was sacked , said : ‘ Closure has always been on the cards . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Yet another suspect category were the many spetsy ( bourgeois specialists ) who worked for the Commissariat . |