Example sentences of "[pers pn] worked for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I remember being fascinated by the story when I worked for a while in the Royal Library . |
| 2 | ‘ I worked for a bit when I was about eighteen . |
| 3 | I worked for a month then I went to the dyers and cleaners and I came home to Ipswich in the , on the Easter time and I started work as a turnboy on the dredger at Ipswich at thirty five shillings a week for fi sixty six and a half hours a week , starting from Monday morning at six o'clock to six o'clock Monday night . |
| 4 | ‘ The colonel said you worked for a travel agency as an assessor of foreign locations . |
| 5 | She left elementary school at fourteen to take a job filling seed packets for five shillings a week ; later she worked for a draper and subsequently for the Co-op , where she joined the union movement of which she was to be a lifelong member . |
| 6 | She worked for a while in a shop , then she began to have trouble with her eyes and took in work at home . |
| 7 | Forcing herself , she worked for an hour or two on the great heap of stuff purloined from the skips that lay in a corner of the hall ; fitting a curtain here , laying a rug there . |
| 8 | The Chiefs of Staff took the unusual step of going down to the Royal Naval College , Greenwich , in the late spring of 1952 , where they worked for a fortnight on Churchill 's requirement with their principal scientific and technological advisers , free from the day-to-day hubbub of Whitehall . |
| 9 | Domestic servants and white-collar workers , though they worked for a wage , are classified separately because they are easily distinguishable in the colonial sources . |
| 10 | So now he worked for a taxi firm . |
| 11 | He worked for a furniture manufacturer and was an active member of CNT , the anarchist trades union . |
| 12 | He worked for a firm in the area of London , and that company began to negotiate with one of our Ministries for the sale of their products to the Soviet Union . |
| 13 | When James left school he worked for a while with his father . |
| 14 | Mr Bolona is equally welcome in financial circles in North America , where he worked for a time as a consultant on Latin American debt . |
| 15 | He worked for a time with Stopover House and the Newham Alternative Project , both designed to provide temporary help for the poor and homeless of the East End . |
| 16 | As well as studying electronics and computing for his degree , he worked for a diploma in industrial management . |
| 17 | One of them was his habitual slowness , especially in handling and totting up cash ; for , before he took up duties in the foreign exchange department of Lloyds in the semi-basement room at the branch at 20 King William Street ( no wonder that the eyes and back , at the end of the day , turned ‘ upward ’ from the desk ) , he worked for a period behind the counter . |
| 18 | At the end of the week she discovered he worked for an average of 1 minute at a time . |
| 19 | It worked for a while . |