Example sentences of "he went to [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went to work for an organisation that combined the roles of an issuing house and a conglomerate . |
| 2 | Instead he went to work for Famous Players-Lasky , first as a subtitle writer and then as a screenwriter . |
| 3 | In Robert Roberts 's farming family this seems to have been the accepted practice on both sides : later on , as a young farm servant , he went to work for an uncle where his mother 's parents still lived in the farmhouse . |
| 4 | This is expected to be particularly revealing as Mr Camber , a curator at the British Museum before he went to work for Sotheby 's , heard about the hoard from an ex-colleague and became involved in negotiations over it in Switzerland some time before Lord Northampton , presenting himself as the single owner of the treasure , first approached Sotheby 's in 1988 with a view to selling . |
| 5 | He went to work for the Gas Light & Coke Company at Beckton in 1908 but he soon chafed at not being given the free rein to which he had become accustomed at Davis Bros . |
| 6 | His first recorded appearance is at Longleat House , Wiltshire , where he went to work for Sir John Thynne [ q.v. ] as a master mason in March 1568 . |
| 7 | At sixteen he went to work for his uncle , a London wine merchant , but by 1810 was established as a confectioner in Marylebone . |
| 8 | From what I 've heard he 's come up in the world since he went to work for Christian Timms . |
| 9 | Legal proceedings were opened against various mayors including the reformist mayor of Dresden , Wolfgang Berghofer , although Berghofer himself was not personally suspected of election manipulation ( in May he went to work for the office planning and construction company Häussler in Stuttgart ) . |
| 10 | Once again he went to prison for a short time . |
| 11 | Later in the year , probably on the anniversary of 18 October , he went to Assandun for the consecration of the church which commemorated the battle of 1016 . |
| 12 | The assault only came to light four days later , when he went to hospital for treatment . |