Example sentences of "[pron] worked for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Counc tonight it was mentioned the actual the work of the Regional Health Authority and , again , I worked for the Regional Health Authority a long time ago . |
| 2 | I use to dread going in to work — in the two years I worked for the Inland Revenue I do not think I worked a full month — and in the end I left . |
| 3 | When I worked for the Daily Telegraph , the editor , Bill Deedes , would say that he never missed the letters column of the Guardian . |
| 4 | Later I tell C that if I worked for the Daily Star , I 'd have my story already . |
| 5 | The principal members were a private secretary , Oliver Everett , who worked for the diplomatic service and was recalled from Madrid to set up her office ; and Anne Beckwith-Smith , a specialist in eighteenth-century English painting , who worked at Sotheby 's and was brought in as full-time lady-in-waiting . |
| 6 | The court heard how Cook , who worked for the Baptist Church in Corporation Road , Darlington , locked the girl in a room . |
| 7 | It is symbolic that a Babylonian text records a payment of oil to Jehoiakin , the son of the king of Judah , and to seven Greek carpenters who worked for the Babylonian court ( Ancient Near Eastern Texts , 2 ed. , p. 308 ) . |
| 8 | Frank , who worked for the Coventry-based business for 10 years before retiring on medical grounds , is now disabled and the money is paying for a £2,127 electric wheelchair . |
| 9 | The journalists who worked for the popular newspapers were only concerned to please their readers , and the truth was irrelevant . |
| 10 | The other was her secret lover , smooth , Australian-born lawyer Phillip Levy , who worked for the same newspaper . |
| 11 | The Institute of Environmental Assessment ( IEA ) was set up by Dr Tim Coles , who worked for the National Rivers Authority , to act as an impartial and independent watchdog and to raise the standard of environmental impact assessments and statements , which — under European law — must be submitted to planning authorities with planning applications . |
| 12 | Michael went with her to meetings and joined her when she worked for the Liberal cause because it was the next best thing to Labour . |
| 13 | She worked for the Serbian Relief Fund in Salonika , took charge of a temporary Serbian refugee colony in Bastia , Corsica , and was decorated by the Serbian government . |
| 14 | In the early 1980s , because of her past connection with the military establishment , intellectuals tended to shun her and rumours had it that she worked for the Chinese KGB , the Ministry of State Security . |
| 15 | She worked for the British Council in the monolithic Spring Gardens building between the Mall and Trafalgar Square . |
| 16 | Philip Leapor told Freemantle that he worked for the Blencowe family for five years following his daughter 's birth . |
| 17 | He worked for the British Ministry of Information in New York during 1915 , returning to England in 1916 to enlist with the Irish Guards , but was wounded and invalided out in 1917 . |
| 18 | Outside the college as well as within it , he worked for the Conservative party , attending meetings and electioneering . |
| 19 | It worked for the last World Cup , when the FA paid a £30,000-a-man bonus for reaching the semi-finals . |