Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] work for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He asked me low long I 'd worked for the firm and what my duties were and what Doreen did . |
| 2 | McAllister , who had put the doll down , and was now fetching out her work basket to embroider pansies on some fine lawn dresses made for the bazaar by the aforesaid ladies , said , ‘ I did n't mean to become involved , you know , but Matey has been so kind to me — when not slave-driving me , you understand — that when she asked me to accompany her I had not the heart to refuse , and strangely , after I began to work for the bazaar , I found that it was most rewarding . ’ |
| 3 | The day after I finished working for the managing director of a certain company fighting off a take-over bid , the agency sent me to the rival company . ’ |
| 4 | I 'd never even heard of Killerton until I started working for the Trust , but when I was at Drogo I used to come across here fairly regularly because of the regional office being here and because I was just interested . |
| 5 | In the administrative sphere it decided to operate through the traditional élites which had worked for the Jordanian government . |
| 6 | Prunskiene , who had resigned as Prime Minister on Jan. 8 , 1991 [ see p. 37944 ] , consistently denied the accusations ( made in April — see p. 38880 ) , claiming that a document bearing her signature in which she agreed to work for the KGB was a forgery and that the trial was politically motivated . |
| 7 | She had worked for the Underground movement , involved in forging passports and papers for people trying to escape across the Channel ; had been discovered but saved from death by a German , who had raped her and kept her as his own prisoner . |
| 8 | As she had worked for the civil service previously , she applied and was sent a booklet which specified an age range for applicants of 17 ½ to 28 years . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Cracks were revealed in some French-manufactured pressure vessels and other parts for PWRs in 1979 and their dangers were publicized by an engineer , Shoja Etemad , who had worked for the company Framatome . |
| 11 | Gabriella Gast , 47 , who had worked for the Federal Counterintelligence Agency ( Bundesnachrichtendienst — BND ) since 1973 and had access to the weekly intelligence report sent to Kohl , was arrested as announced on Oct. 2 . |
| 12 | An assizes court in Paris on June 15 , 1990 , sentenced Rolf Dobbertin , a German-born nuclear physicist who had worked for the French National Council for Scientific Research ( CNRS ) , to 12 years ' imprisonment for espionage for East Germany during the 10 years to January 1979 [ see p. 29786 for his arrest in 1979 and p. 33867 for his release in 1983 ] . |
| 13 | For instance : 70 per cent of all employees who were asked said that they liked working for the company . |
| 14 | The CDU parliamentary group had accused Gies ( who had headed the CDU list but had not won a direct seat in the October 1990 Landtag election ) of obliging three other CDU delegates to resign after that election by alleging that they had worked for the former East German " Stasi " security police . |
| 15 | He found working for the Maharajah so enjoyable that he refused to accept one penny in payment for his 18 years ' service , although the Maharajah supplied all his material needs . |
| 16 | Mike Towers , with a background of newspaper journalism — he 'd worked for the Evening World in Bristol — assumed control of " Here Today " and he went for a harder , more newsy approach . |
| 17 | There , he 'd worked for the Corps ' news service , been wounded , gone home to study journalism at college and ended up with the Associated Press . |
| 18 | ‘ Although I 'm almost certain Mills was murdered because he 'd worked for the KGB . ’ |
| 19 | Soon after the Second World War , in which he worked with ENSA ( or ‘ Every-Night-Something-Awful ’ , as he called it ) , he came to work for the music publishing firm of R. Smith and Co Ltd and served as editor of British Bandsman ( the brass band world 's leading newspaper since 1887 ) for 15 years . |
| 20 | It happened to work for the two of us , we were lucky . |
| 21 | He happened to work for the same paper which stitched Botham up some eight years ago . |
| 22 | He had worked for the same engineering firm for thirty years and he had always set great store by the company pension . |
| 23 | He rhapsodized about Franklin Roosevelt who , he said , was still regarded " almost as a god in place like West Virginia " , because , although rich , he had worked for the common people . |
| 24 | He had worked for the same firm for 16 years without working on a Sunday because of his objection to working on a Sunday and his wish to stay at home and then to go to church . |
| 25 | The issue had already had a major impact during the election campaign , when Wolfgang Schnur , a human rights lawyer in Rostock and the leader of Democratic Awakening , resigned his post on March 14 after admitting that he had worked for the Stasi . |
| 26 | At an early stage the archbishop and ten of his suffragans had signed a declaration that they intended no prejudice to the king by their support for the reforms , and the Ordainers themselves swore to work for the benefit of church , king and people . |