Example sentences of "used to work [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was a real mess , ’ says Frank , 40 , who used to work as a copyright manager for a London record company . |
| 2 | He used to work as a policeman and , on the few occasions when he was in extreme danger , automatically did whatever had to be done without any thought for his own safety . |
| 3 | His prospective father-in-law , Viscount Petersham , used to work as a stable lad and was famous for bare fist fighting coal workers on Friday evenings for the week 's wage packet . |
| 4 | The wife used to work as a domestic at his house . |
| 5 | I used to work as a boy I did on . |
| 6 | laugh , unfortunately you ca n't erm ca n't erm when I was giving this similar lecture two or three years ago , erm there was er a student in the class she put up her hand she said yes , she said that 's absolutely right she said , what you 're saying about the female does n't have to submit she said I used to work as a , as a stable maid at Newmarket at a stud farm and she said er you 've got ta have five people for er er to cover a mare . |
| 7 | Karen Hamilton used to work for a community video workshop on the Isle of Dogs and is now a freelance director . |
| 8 | I love the story told to me by a make-up girl who used to work for a well-known London hairdresser . |
| 9 | I used to work for a record company as an office junior ages ago and they were always talking about music as being a packet of cornflakes : you just have to make it look right and make it so it 's easy to recognise and people will buy it . |
| 10 | I used to work for a young lady who loved roses , you see , and she had a lot in her garden . |
| 11 | I used to work for a certain er c er creamery there . |
| 12 | And Ray er Mr from Nottingham says , I used to work for a circus , I 'm an animal lover and all the animals I saw were treated very well . |
| 13 | I used to work for a furniture and I always had the King 's Lynn I think was always easier |
| 14 | True , they would have had a stronger showing had not their former prime minister , Lothar de Maizière , stepped down before the election amid charges ( which he denies , and which an inquiry looks set to discuss ) that he used to work for the former East German secret police . |
| 15 | There is a bar by the roadside , further on , and I 'll enquire there , as I think the landlady used to work for the Harvey-Beaumonts . |
| 16 | ‘ But he used to work for the gas board , did n't he ? ’ said the boy . |
| 17 | ‘ It was sixty years ago since I left this place , I used to work for the blacksmith . ’ |
| 18 | Cos , you used to work for the castronery had to pay you see , not the firm . |
| 19 | ‘ I used to work for the bugger — you know that , do n't you ? ’ |
| 20 | According to the family he rarely used it except on Sundays when he spent the afternoon and evening with an old chap who used to work for the firm and now lives in sheltered accommodation at Carbis Bay . |
| 21 | We have Whitewater Leisure , Contemporary Leisure and all the controversy about those who used to work for the Glasgow authority . |
| 22 | And she used to work for the TSB bank . ’ |
| 23 | Harry , who used to work for the coal board , cites Graham Gooch as his favourite cricketer . |
| 24 | He used to work for an outfit in the City called Even Rudergrams , but about a year ago the market fell right out of the bottom of the stripping kissogram girl ( or boy ) business , and the company packed up and moved into something else . |
| 25 | Er I was I used to work with a to an old lady and she passed off . |
| 26 | Cathryn used to work with the Social Work Department in Craigmillar , but took up a fixed term post at Haddington once the decision was taken to go on tour . |
| 27 | See the , we used to work with the five . |
| 28 | I used to work with an ex-BBC engineer who revelled in the fact that , in his day , Radio 3 , which was deemed by many hi-fi buffs as tonal nirvana , emanated from studios with ageing turntables and consoles , odd lengths of disparate signal cable were employed and much of it was held together with string and Sellotape . |
| 29 | This used to work on a complex formula based on the relative wealth of the areas , the structure of their populations , and various indicators of social needs . |
| 30 | He used to work on a farm and wanted to be buried in a country church . |