Example sentences of "[vb past] work for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He began working for a master 's degree , studying the language of medieval petitions in the Public Record Office . |
| 2 | Much difficulty could be avoided if the only candidates permitted to work for a PhD were those who were virtually certain to obtain it , but that is not a feasible option in the modern university . |
| 3 | I did work for a petrol company . |
| 4 | Many had to work for a year under the threat of the axe and even those who survived continue to live in a climate of insecurity , not knowing when the next rationalisation programme is likely to be introduced . |
| 5 | So although his neighbours opposite occupied houses with gardens , his side of the street had to work for a living : he would have been used to seeing the flame fanned by the bellows of the blacksmith , the steam rising from the sweating horses in the carrier , s stables , and — we may hope — a line of customers waiting to be served in his little shop . |
| 6 | The working-class wives of early eighteenth-century London earned from charring , laundry , nursing , making and mending clothes , hawking , silk-winding and in the catering and victualling services : The great majority of women were unable to work in male trades and , since nearly three quarters of women wanted to or had to work for a living , they necessarily competed intensely for the work which was left , much of it of a casual nature and none of it organised by gilds and livery companies . |
| 7 | Helen Hards , produce section manager , worked at Bishops Stortford store for two years , left to work for a competitor and returned to JS at the new Apsley Mills branch . |
| 8 | He had worked for a year in the Ukraine and said he liked the people there more than those he had met in the West - they were more open and friendly . |
| 9 | But your difficulty , surely , is that even if sanctions had worked for a year or even two years , you would still be left with that formidable monster of a regime … |
| 10 | Members of the Doyle family had worked for a company operating a fleet of ice-cream vans in the city . |
| 11 | Members of the Doyle family had worked for a company operating a fleet of ice-cream vans in the city . |
| 12 | Members of the Doyle family had worked for a company operating a fleet of ice-cream vans in the city . |
| 13 | I also wanted to work for a firm with work under the legal aid scheme . ’ |