Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] worked for the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I 'm pleased with it , ’ Maria responded warily , reminding herself that she worked for the man .
2 Frequently venue staff try to set everything up before you arrive , on the basis that it worked for the people before you and it 's less effort for them .
3 and I worked for the council so he spoke to me one day and he said , Will you cut the roads with a tractor and a mower .
4 If you worked for the probation service
5 ‘ Well , if you worked for the blacksmith , ’ this old man said , ‘ that was me ! ’
6 If you worked for the Times you 'd have known John .
7 ‘ Michael ran a cab and he worked for the bookies on the side .
8 Maxim wondered if he dressed that way only because he worked for The Firm , and decided probably not .
9 Zacchaeus was a tax-collector and was very unpopular with the Jews , not only because he worked for the Romans but also because he was very rich through cheating people , as he himself admitted ( Luke 19:8 ) .
10 And , having no idea how important this or that person was , whether they worked for the BBC or the TLS or the BFI , he treated them all with equal condescension .
11 Well it must be ten years ago when he worked for the B B C and that , he must have been in his late twenties then
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