Example sentences of "[modal v] to work [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 " Dr. Lorrimer — he 's the Principal Scientific Officer in charge of the Biology Department — says that I ought to work for an A-level subject and try for a job as an Assistant Scientific Officer .
2 He 's so good at bottling things up , he ought to work in a ketchup factory . ’
3 The wife used to work as a domestic at his house .
4 He used to work as a policeman and , on the few occasions when he was in extreme danger , automatically did whatever had to be done without any thought for his own safety .
5 I used to work as a boy I did on .
6 ‘ It was a real mess , ’ says Frank , 40 , who used to work as a copyright manager for a London record company .
7 I used to work for a furniture and I always had the King 's Lynn I think was always easier
8 And Ray er Mr from Nottingham says , I used to work for a circus , I 'm an animal lover and all the animals I saw were treated very well .
9 I used to work for a record company as an office junior ages ago and they were always talking about music as being a packet of cornflakes : you just have to make it look right and make it so it 's easy to recognise and people will buy it .
10 Karen Hamilton used to work for a community video workshop on the Isle of Dogs and is now a freelance director .
11 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 .
12 ‘ It was sixty years ago since I left this place , I used to work for the blacksmith . ’
13 ‘ I used to work for the bugger — you know that , do n't you ? ’
14 ‘ But he used to work for the gas board , did n't he ? ’ said the boy .
15 Cos , you used to work for the castronery had to pay you see , not the firm .
16 And she used to work for the TSB bank . ’
17 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 .
18 Harry , who used to work for the coal board , cites Graham Gooch as his favourite cricketer .
19 We have Whitewater Leisure , Contemporary Leisure and all the controversy about those who used to work for the Glasgow authority .
20 He used to work for an outfit in the City called Even Rudergrams , but about a year ago the market fell right out of the bottom of the stripping kissogram girl ( or boy ) business , and the company packed up and moved into something else .
21 I used to work on a service counter in the 5Os , and here I am back at JS still working on a service counter in the 9Os ’
22 He used to work on a farm and wanted to be buried in a country church .
23 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 .
24 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 ?
25 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 .
26 Yeah , well she used to work at the station in the offices .
27 There is a certain Asian anaesthetist who used to work at the City Hospital Maternity Unit .
28 Used to work at the laundry in Bonner Street .
29 I used to work in a factory making toy guns .
30 Faith Abraham , who used to work in a factory making artificial jewellery , is married to a labourer ; she was born and brought up in Ireland :
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