Example sentences of "work for a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or , had she preferred it , she was sure that he would have agreed to her continuing to work for a time . |
| 2 | Mr Bolona is equally welcome in financial circles in North America , where he worked for a time as a consultant on Latin American debt . |
| 3 | He was a physician who , after qualifying in medicine in 1912 , worked for a time at University College Hospital , London , where he became interested in bacteriology and the developing discipline of immunology . |
| 4 | He became a trader in Nigeria and when this career failed , worked for a time as a clerk to Richard Beale Blaize , publisher of the short-lived Lagos Times . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | On leaving school Herbert joined his father as an engineering apprentice , and also worked for a time in the mechanical engineering laboratories of the City and Guilds Technical College in Finchley , London . |
| 7 | She had to sell her farm and work for a time in a department store . |
| 8 | ‘ I told him — my husband had a hard job , he was n't working for a time . |
| 9 | In September 1953 Curran became the BBC 's first internally selected administrative trainee , visiting or working for a time in different departments of the BBC in and out of London and assisting in the preparation of the BBC 's first personnel manual . |
| 10 | Harriet works for a time in a ‘ gown-shop ’ and takes part in the rather gruesome beauty treatment of the other ‘ sales-ladies ’ . |
| 11 | He works for a time as a gardener on the estate of the rich Mrs Mgulu , and later as a construction worker in her house . |