Example sentences of "he worked for [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He worked for five years on preparing the case before committing suicide out of bitter frustration . |
| 2 | In the short period before joining Douglas Reyburn , he worked for five months as an administrator with the National Savings Bank . |
| 3 | Previously he worked for nineteen years in Kirkcaldy as a Shift Manager . |
| 4 | The doctor , who died last summer , broke health service guidelines when he worked for six shifts in a casualty department without warning the hospital involved , it was claimed . |
| 5 | A year later he worked for six months for the Eastern Health and Social Services Board in the Belfast area . |
| 6 | A year later he worked for six months in the Belfast area . |
| 7 | Now a qualified CA , he worked for six years in the Middle East , mainly in Palestine/Israel and the Lebanon . |
| 8 | He worked for many years with Darlington firm Paton and Baldwin , rising to the position of chairman of sales before his retirement . |
| 9 | Brin was issued with false documents to fool the Germans and he worked for 5 months with the resistance , helping allied servicemen to escape along the so called Comet line ; a 1,500 mile route across Europe from Holland through Belgium and France , on through Spain to the safety of Gibraltar . |
| 10 | Brin was issued with false documents to fool the Germans and he worked for 5 months with the resistance , helping allied servicemen to escape along the so called Comet line ; a 1,500 mile route across Europe from Holland through Belgium and France , on through Spain to the safety of Gibraltar . |
| 11 | He worked for three years with Sir Samuel Canning [ q.v. ] , |
| 12 | A director of Courtaulds Textiles , he was equally well known in Courtaulds , where he worked for 25 years before the textiles demerger in 1990 . |
| 13 | I knew nothing really about the behind-the-scenes activities of missions working in remote islands , but the Australian representative , Brian Parker , explained that he worked for several missions of different denominations , arranging facilities , transfer of funds , booking hotels for newcomers and whatever might be needed . |
| 14 | He worked for several years at the British Rail Works in Swindon , where he was regularly exposed to asbestos . |
| 15 | In the 1960s he worked for several years in industry , including a period as Chief Architect at Camus , before being appointed Head of the Architectural Division at the National Building Agency . |
| 16 | When he came out he worked for some years at a stud-farm at Henley ( Suffolk ) ; then he went back to smithing and worked for many years at Needham Market , a large village near Ipswich : |
| 17 | In 1898 he worked for some months in Naples on the evolution of small sharks , and then became a demonstrator in the natural history department of St Andrews University . |