Example sentences of "work for a [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next step was London to work for a shipping company and to play rugby for Blackheath . |
| 2 | Among 800 men questioned , one in five said it was ‘ difficult ’ to work for a woman manager . |
| 3 | Karen Hamilton used to work for a community video workshop on the Isle of Dogs and is now a freelance director . |
| 4 | One such company took a finance director of a subsidiary out of the business for a whole year , sent him to Harvard for an abbreviated MBA and to work for a merchant bank in the City . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I did work for a petrol company . |
| 7 | That may work for a lottery system where the buyer buys the fun of expectation but it does not — or should not — apply to opportunities . |
| 8 | You can work for a record company now because of your college degree , instead of what you know about music . |
| 9 | So now he worked for a taxi firm . |
| 10 | After that came a stint in the ambulance service , while Jean worked for a catering business . |
| 11 | It ends months of financial worry for Alan Govier , who worked for a printing firm for forty-nine years . |
| 12 | ‘ The colonel said you worked for a travel agency as an assessor of foreign locations . |
| 13 | Mr Mafouz , a big , jolly man who worked for a travel agent , was compiling a dossier on him . |
| 14 | ( Their father , who worked for a specialist printer , died three-and-a-half years ago . ) |
| 15 | He worked for a furniture manufacturer and was an active member of CNT , the anarchist trades union . |
| 16 | It was also during this period that we had the strangest set of photographs taken of us , by Peter Christopherson who worked for a design company , Hipgnosis — whose offices were at the back of our Denmark Street HQ — and who later joined Throbbing Gristle , a band best known for tabloid spreads on their occult practices . |
| 17 | Troy Hurtibese , who worked for a bungee team called the Adrenalin Rush Adventurers , died on the way to hospital . |
| 18 | these bloody apologies for drug companies , have you ever worked for a drug company ? |
| 19 | Because I work for a Water Authority which is active in the farming of coarse fish , I have access to some interesting books . |
| 20 | I work for a record company called Geffen Records . |
| 21 | ‘ Ah , yes , well , I work for a television company . |
| 22 | agencies have been inundated with job hunting dealers who often confide : " We 're earning thirty or forty thousand a year , but we 're working for a bucket shop . |
| 23 | Elizabeth Stewart , post-graduate chemistry student , recalls that Sir Robert Robinson under whom she was to work was away working for a government department and his students rarely saw him : ‘ We never knew when he would do a lab round , and often it would be at the lunch hour , when I was out ’ . |
| 24 | Paul Ride was working for a catering company in Kuwait -- but was arrested and jailed earlier this year after apparently straying accross the border into Iraq . |
| 25 | After working for a building company for two months , she was offered a permanent secretarial position there and decided to accept it because the firm was willing to be flexible about unpaid time off . |
| 26 | You are working for a travel firm selling exotic holidays . |
| 27 | The last point is demonstrated by the fact that according to Johnson 's definition neither a lawyer working for a company nor a lawyer working for a neighbourhood centre would be a professional . |
| 28 | After a short spell working for a freight company at Heathrow airport he acquired a post in the Conservative Research Department under Chris Patten , where he was nicknamed ‘ The Spaniard ’ . |
| 29 | I was working for a yarn firm who had just gone into the marketing of coned yarns — unfortunately they did not stay the course . |
| 30 | On one occasion James Gilbey , then working for a car rental company in Victoria , woke to find his prize Alfa Romeo car covered in eggs and flour which had set like concrete . |