Example sentences of "he [verb] work for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Sinn Fein man claimed two plain-clothes men approached Mr Fox in Thomas Street , Dungannon on September 2 and promised him a new house if he agreed to work for them . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In 1990 he moved to work for Wimpey Minerals in the US as chief financial officer . |
| 4 | He has worked for South African companies and first came to this country on a De Beers scholarship to Oxford . |
| 5 | He does more than an ordinary caretaker would do at the small plastics company where he has worked for years . |
| 6 | He has worked for pharmaceutical company Pfizer , National Bank of Angola and on collaborative projects for the World Bank and is now representing Banco Espirito Santo in Luanda . |
| 7 | began his career with in June 1950 as a maintenance electrician and over the years he has worked for at Wallingford , at Newark and from 1987 for at Gainsborough . |
| 8 | Mr Tony Byrne , aged 35 , from Middlesbrough , joins the company from BASF where he has worked for 13 years . |
| 9 | For most of his life he has worked for Cummins Engine Co. , and met his wife there . |
| 10 | In the past he has worked for John Moore , Cecil Parkinson and Nigel Lawson . |
| 11 | He 'd worked for firearms makers Springfield and Samuel Colt before beginning his own company in 1890 , and knew that identical parts could be made to a standard that meant they were interchangeable . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She knew he 'd worked for Bonanza , and the chances were that in her nervous condition she would n't question his appearance . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Although I 'm almost certain Mills was murdered because he 'd worked for the KGB . ’ |
| 16 | The car was traced to dealers in Nottingham where he 'd worked for nine years . |
| 17 | he 'd worked for before ? |
| 18 | He prepared to work for his father in the building trade , or even go back to college . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He came to work for my company in Avignon as an assistant in the overseas purchasing department . |
| 21 | He happened to work for the same paper which stitched Botham up some eight years ago . |
| 22 | He pledged to work for all sides in the constituency . |
| 23 | He began working for a master 's degree , studying the language of medieval petitions in the Public Record Office . |
| 24 | A middle peasant is somebody who is more or less entirely self sufficient , he does n't hire any labour but nor does he have to work for anybody else , his plot is big enough for him to be able to support himself and his family . |
| 25 | He had worked for the same engineering firm for thirty years and he had always set great store by the company pension . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ To us he was throwing away all he had worked for . |
| 28 | Despite the fact that he had worked for most of the period of his contract in England , lived in England , was paid in English currency and paid National Insurance contributions in the UK , he was at all times liable to be recalled to Dhaka . |
| 29 | His explanation that he had worked for several years for one master , until his employer had died , mollified Jonadab a little . |
| 30 | A deeper allegiance than his love for the children of the Anglo-Irish landlord he had worked for since he was a homeless lad knocking at the kitchen door to ask for a cup of tea and an odd job . |