Example sentences of "work for [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pledged to work for all sides in the constituency . |
| 2 | The court discussed the example of a solicitor 's clerk and said that in such a case it would be improper for him to work for another solicitor in his spare time . |
| 3 | Previously she used to work for British Telecom in tele-marketing . |
| 4 | The doctor , who died last summer , broke health service guidelines when he worked for six shifts in a casualty department without warning the hospital involved , it was claimed . |
| 5 | She finished school last year , and she worked for six months in a hospital to get some money . |
| 6 | A year later he worked for six months in the Belfast area . |
| 7 | Now a qualified CA , he worked for six years in the Middle East , mainly in Palestine/Israel and the Lebanon . |
| 8 | Following this period in the homoeopathic hospital I worked for two years in a professorial immunological unit where I set up studies in allergy to assess the efficacy of homoeopathic remedies in house-dust-mite allergy and hay fever ( allergy to grass pollens ) . |
| 9 | Renowned for her ‘ tomboyish tastes ’ ( she would , even in evening dress , always carry a knife and some string about her person ) , Emma went on to the School for Ornamental Art and began to support early Victorian feminist causes , making an initial living as a restorer of stained-glass windows notably in the chapel of Merton College , Oxford , where she worked for two years in the early 1860s . |
| 10 | He then worked for eighteen months in the Southampton naval works before returning to Glasgow late in 1891 as an assistant lecturer in naval architecture and marine engineering at the university , and it was soon after this that his intensive study of the design of bird-like gliders began . |
| 11 | The second thing I did n't know , she er , she worked eighteen , she worked for eighteen months in London , arrived there for a holiday , and er , from being eighteen , so sh , this now will explain why she 's quite mature as I said she 's still very young , and that . |
| 12 | Previously he worked for nineteen years in Kirkcaldy as a Shift Manager . |
| 13 | Mr Wheeler , an engineer who worked for many years in the oil business , is a pleasant , slightly worried-looking man who can not bear the fact that no one seems to realise just what lengths he goes to in order to keep the plant squeaky clean and emission-free . |
| 14 | She too , has many accomplishments , worked for many years in the Rating and Valuation Office , now the District Valuer 's Office . |
| 15 | After coming here I worked for four months in a sweet factory in Stratford . |
| 16 | In 1898 he worked for some months in Naples on the evolution of small sharks , and then became a demonstrator in the natural history department of St Andrews University . |
| 17 | With Courtaulds Norman worked for 15 years in Coventry , latterly for the Celon ( nylon ) division , before retiring through ill health in 1970 . |
| 18 | Before that she worked for several companies in Taiwan , the last one being Coca-Cola . |
| 19 | In the 1960s he worked for several years in industry , including a period as Chief Architect at Camus , before being appointed Head of the Architectural Division at the National Building Agency . |
| 20 | ‘ I worked for three years in the Collector of Taxes department , which was really just shuffling papers and asking for money . |
| 21 | Paula worked for seven years in a biscuit factory in San Salvador , owned jointly by a Czech and a Salvadorean . |
| 22 | For example , a qualified electrician who has worked for thirty years in that profession could be forced to take an ACE post . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've worked for fourteen years in this business and I 've been given to understand that I should get a partnership one day . ’ |
| 24 | No , I , I , I 've only got this company to compare with you see , so there are others who 've worked for other companies in , in the industry . |
| 25 | One of my former patients , a respected scientist who had worked for many years in the field of cancer research , still kept the inferior Inner Face inflicted on him by demanding parents and a series of thoughtless teachers . |
| 26 | This speaker , a deaf teacher of the deaf who had worked for many years in the Department of Education of the Deaf at Manchester University , had been a committed " oralist " . |
| 27 | The seminar participants worked for five days in groups to analyse the representation of women in newspapers , advertising , radio and television . |
| 28 | Geoff Tulloch got hold of the idea that she 'd worked for some corporation in Detroit for a year . |
| 29 | You may be expected as well to have already worked for some time in a related financial area , such as stock broking . |
| 30 | Eighty thousand employees work for foreign-owned companies in the region such as Hewlett Packard , Caterpillar , ICI and Unilever . |