Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] work for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I went to , erm they would n't let me go to work on the aircraft so I left and I went to work and the Walsall Electric Company , it was within Walsall and I was there when V E day happened and er a pal of mine said he knew where I could get this job and oh it was travelling about which I enjoyed and er I , I went then to work for Elwells I was there until I went in the army , but they were very much heavy transport and in those days the opencast mining started happening as well and we were taking diggers about bulldozers and tractors , scrapers for the opencast mining and I remember , in the bad winter of forty-seven , they , they took up a big part of Park , trees and everything and they never found a bit of coal and yet when started levelling off at Darleston , for Bentley Garden Village as it was then called , er they were getting coal out and people were going up with prams , barrows and everything and fetching it all out it was only being levelled for building work , and fetching coal , natural coal off Bentley Common the erm I 've wandering off away from the airport a bit have n't I ? |
| 2 | THREE-quarters of the track including half the through lines , the semaphore signals , the last vestiges of freight facilities and the last of the men who used proudly to work for the old railway company have gone , yet the long-distance service is faster , more frequent and above all better used than at any time in railway history , and the number of passengers passing through probably at an all time high . |
| 3 | For five years she had worked at the Ashmolean before moving across the street to The Randolph ; and for the latter part of that time she had actually worked for Dr Kemp , amongst others . |
| 4 | She had enough work for several more days and then after that , she would need to tramp around the streets seeking new customers . |
| 5 | Brian Hallin , who had formerly worked for Island and been financial controller for IRS Records , was appointed as their manager . |
| 6 | To head her media team the princess selected easy-going Australian Geoff Crawford who had never worked for her before but whose loyalty was assured by members of her household . |
| 7 | There a chemist who had recently worked for a company involved in the manufacture of submarine telephone cables recognised its similarity to gutta percha — the material used to sheathe such cables . |
| 8 | Ms Starnes , who had once worked for him in the news department of WSGN Radio in Birmingham , Alabama , agreed at once that he should cover pending events in Libya for Mutual Radio and promised to get the necessary credentials to him within 48 hours . |
| 9 | According to reports , Pan Am filed the suit on the basis of a report commissioned from an Israeli intelligence expert known as " Avner " , based in New York , who had once worked for Mossad . |
| 10 | Allegations were subsequently made against Ibrahim Böhme , the SPD leader , who denied ever working for the Stasi or knowingly passing them information . |
| 11 | During his first twenty years at Finsbury , Meldola published more than 250 papers and reports , and during his presidency of the Institute of Chemistry he did much work for the development of all aspects of its activities . |
| 12 | If my memory serves me correctly , he had also worked for a while in the office of a chartered accountant , but to no avail . |
| 13 | He had previously worked for the firm and was due to go back to it . |
| 14 | He told me that he had once worked for Lipton 's Stores in London , very near my old school , Holloway Comprehensive . |
| 15 | It must have seemed that everything he had ever worked for was falling apart . |
| 16 | He said he had always worked for the benefit of his country and could not be held responsible for how the hard currency he procured was spent by its leaders . |
| 17 | He said he had always worked for the benefit of his country and could not be held responsible for how the hard currency he procured was spent by its leaders . |
| 18 | The court found that all his experience had been in these areas ; he had always worked for the plaintiffs and therefore the clause rendered him unemployable over a very wide area for a significant time . |
| 19 | Coming to England as a political refugee , he had originally worked for Thomas Gray , the poet , who , as Professor of History , was responsible for modern languages in the University . |