Example sentences of "used work [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the family he rarely used it except on Sundays when he spent the afternoon and evening with an old chap who used to work for the firm and now lives in sheltered accommodation at Carbis Bay . |
| 2 | ‘ It was sixty years ago since I left this place , I used to work for the blacksmith . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I used to work for the bugger — you know that , do n't you ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ But he used to work for the gas board , did n't he ? ’ said the boy . |
| 5 | Cos , you used to work for the castronery had to pay you see , not the firm . |
| 6 | And she used to work for the TSB bank . ’ |
| 7 | There is a bar by the roadside , further on , and I 'll enquire there , as I think the landlady used to work for the Harvey-Beaumonts . |
| 8 | Harry , who used to work for the coal board , cites Graham Gooch as his favourite cricketer . |
| 9 | We have Whitewater Leisure , Contemporary Leisure and all the controversy about those who used to work for the Glasgow authority . |
| 10 | K. M. When I used to work on the dockside , it was a hive of activity , all the horses and the steam-engines parked along the street . |
| 11 | You 've got to make sure that you 're in good health , and you 're a er hale and hearty individual , so if you 're from a long lived family , erm I once er made a mistake on er delivering one of these courses and er I think erm erm there 's an elderly lady used to work on the course , do you remember Miss , Miss ? |
| 12 | And we realized on reflection , had Freda have not volunteered early enough , another lady who used to work at the station played , u plays for Nigel when he does his gigs . |
| 13 | Yeah , well she used to work at the station in the offices . |
| 14 | There is a certain Asian anaesthetist who used to work at the City Hospital Maternity Unit . |
| 15 | Used to work at the laundry in Bonner Street . |
| 16 | ‘ Mark used to work in the newspaper industry , but he got kicked out when they brought in all the new technology you hear about . |
| 17 | She wor used to work in the kipper industry , and she 'd had smallpox once , knocked her off cos you should have seen her face . |
| 18 | But Mr Abramson , who used to work in the clothing business , said he suffered chest pains because of the shock of the attempted robbery . |
| 19 | A former accountant who used to work in the music industry with Tony Visconti ( David Bowie 's producer ) , he now has a hit of his own with the quoted company The Pelican Group . |
| 20 | My wife used to work in the Education Department , incidentally |
| 21 | I know used to work in the curry shop . |
| 22 | Kiichi Miyazawa , the prime minister , used to work in the finance ministry , which oversees the tax office . |
| 23 | dying to get the money , is she , did she used to work in the paper shop ? |
| 24 | The English boy used to work in the hospital for a day at a time , and then be off for several days . |
| 25 | When I was a postulant , or aspirant young novice , I used to work in the laundry . |
| 26 | He used to work in the dock 's offices . |
| 27 | ‘ Jos used to work in the forest . |