Example sentences of "[pron] worked for the [noun] " 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 | Then I worked for the BBC — my favourite charity , really . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ The things I 've seen in them vats when I worked for the brewery . ’ |
| 6 | During the war I worked for the women 's voluntary service and shortly afterwards I went abroad for a few years , returning in the late 1940s , divorced with three children . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | I 'd told her I worked for the Post and she said she 'd already told Rain all about it . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Well , if you worked for the blacksmith , ’ this old man said , ‘ that was me ! ’ |
| 10 | If you worked for the probation service |
| 11 | ‘ If you worked for the Times you 'd have known John . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Most of the guys who worked for the company were gay — and Cherry Vanilla was the female press officer — she was outrageous . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Val Smith , 35 , who worked for the company for 19 years before she was sacked , said : ‘ Closure has always been on the cards . |
| 19 | The Kurds who worked for the Turks killed her husband and children . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Chinese authorities have executed a bank accountant who embezzled more than $175,000 in the country 's first such case of computer fraud , the Xinhua Daily Telegraph newspaper reported yesterday : Shi Biao , who worked for the Jilin branch of the state-run Agricultural Bank of China , was found to have siphoned funds to private accounts from August to November 1991 , and he and accomplice Yu Lixin were arrested as they were preparing to leave China through the southern economic zone of Shenzhen , bordering Hong Kong ; it was the first case of bank embezzlement via computer in China ; China imposes the death penalty for a variety of offences , ranging from bicycle theft to panda poaching . |
| 22 | Yet another suspect category were the many spetsy ( bourgeois specialists ) who worked for the Commissariat . |
| 23 | Then Tom , who worked for the Bryant and May match firm , will splash out on a greenhouse and a garden shed for himself . |
| 24 | He was flown to America and during his debriefing exposed two Russian spies , Edward Howard , who worked for the CIA , and Ronald Pelton , who had worked for the NSA . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I had a friend who worked for the oil people , and I decided to stay after a visit to this place . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The evil paedophile , who worked for the prisons charity NIACRO , preyed on youngsters using his position of trust with the St. Lazarus ' ambulance corps . |
| 30 | Levi was a tax-collector who worked for the Romans . |