Example sentences of "he [vb past] work for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found working for the Maharajah so enjoyable that he refused to accept one penny in payment for his 18 years ' service , although the Maharajah supplied all his material needs . |
| 2 | Mike Towers , with a background of newspaper journalism — he 'd worked for the Evening World in Bristol — assumed control of " Here Today " and he went for a harder , more newsy approach . |
| 3 | There , he 'd worked for the Corps ' news service , been wounded , gone home to study journalism at college and ended up with the Associated Press . |
| 4 | ‘ Although I 'm almost certain Mills was murdered because he 'd worked for the KGB . ’ |
| 5 | Soon after the Second World War , in which he worked with ENSA ( or ‘ Every-Night-Something-Awful ’ , as he called it ) , he came to work for the music publishing firm of R. Smith and Co Ltd and served as editor of British Bandsman ( the brass band world 's leading newspaper since 1887 ) for 15 years . |
| 6 | He happened to work for the same paper which stitched Botham up some eight years ago . |
| 7 | He began working for a master 's degree , studying the language of medieval petitions in the Public Record Office . |
| 8 | He had worked for a year in the Ukraine and said he liked the people there more than those he had met in the West - they were more open and friendly . |
| 9 | Speaking at his home at James Street , Falkirk , Graeme explained that before the incident , he had worked for a short spell on a YTS course with ScotRail , before taking a job as a gardener . |
| 10 | He had worked for the same engineering firm for thirty years and he had always set great store by the company pension . |
| 11 | He rhapsodized about Franklin Roosevelt who , he said , was still regarded " almost as a god in place like West Virginia " , because , although rich , he had worked for the common people . |
| 12 | He had worked for the same firm for 16 years without working on a Sunday because of his objection to working on a Sunday and his wish to stay at home and then to go to church . |
| 13 | The issue had already had a major impact during the election campaign , when Wolfgang Schnur , a human rights lawyer in Rostock and the leader of Democratic Awakening , resigned his post on March 14 after admitting that he had worked for the Stasi . |