Example sentences of "[pron] worked for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I used to have lunch there occasionally when I worked for Lewis & Arbuckle — marvellous grub , it was . |
| 2 | ‘ I worked for Vincent O'Brien for a year and it 's great to come back here and win my first classic , ’ said trainer John Gosden . |
| 3 | If , in the 1980s a social worker or manager said they were ‘ working on the patch ’ , everyone would murmur reverentially : ‘ Alas , Professor Hadley , I knew him well ’ , or : ‘ I worked for East Sussex once ’ . |
| 4 | The very first time I worked for Heather Wilkinson was just before my thirteenth birthday . |
| 5 | ‘ I worked for personnel . |
| 6 | No , Olive that used to work when I worked for Laura Ashley 's |
| 7 | Then I worked for Jimmy Young for quite a long time … he saved my bacon . |
| 8 | I worked for Department One from 1943 until 1957 when I left the company . |
| 9 | I have no interest to declare in the construction industry , but during my first 10 years in that industry I worked for John Laing , then I worked for Wimpey for about eight years , and I was the head of the largest direct labour organisation in the country — the Greater London council — for nearly three years . |
| 10 | ‘ I worked for Creed , 'Jed went on . |
| 11 | ‘ I worked for Charles Laughton , the actor , and his wife Elsa Lanchester , the actress . |
| 12 | I worked for Group Four before moving to Edinburgh , erm tt I was the accounts manager for the retail division in Group Four . |
| 13 | I have no interest to declare in the construction industry , but during my first 10 years in that industry I worked for John Laing , then I worked for Wimpey for about eight years , and I was the head of the largest direct labour organisation in the country — the Greater London council — for nearly three years . |
| 14 | Then I worked for Edward Kennedy . |
| 15 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 16 | During the eight years I worked for Fred Workman he never lectured me on the practice or ethics of journalism , and in assigning me to a story he never told me what to do . |
| 17 | She said I worked for weeks and months on that exam . |
| 18 | I played on four albums for Barry Gibb ; I worked for Dionne Warwick on the ‘ Heartbreaker ’ and some film music for ‘ Staying Alive ’ . |
| 19 | The most important social division ran between a dominant class based on the legal ownership of industrial and commercial capital ( and sometimes having little to do with either management or labour ) and a population most of which worked for wages . |
| 20 | ‘ You worked for Kemp , ’ Culley said . |
| 21 | ‘ In the real world you worked for Ray Plummer , ’ Robinson told him . |
| 22 | The toadie , the crawler , the compromiser , the one who worked for favours . |
| 23 | The youth and inexperience of Gaston II caused concern to those who worked for peace in south-west France ; above all , to the Pope . |
| 24 | ‘ One of my constituents who worked for BCCI , after 14 months in detention without charge , without access to proper lawyers , without access to proper medical care died in detention in Abu Dhabi on Monday . ’ |
| 25 | But Alec Taylor , who worked for Michelin Tyres for 27 years , gained a £600 backdated payment after he decided to fight the insurance company for compensation . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , one of Asmar 's operatives had delivered the Speak ‘ n ’ Spell material to a relative who worked for Al Shiraa , Beirut 's pro-Syrian Arabic-language news magazine . |
| 27 | Dennis Garvey , who worked for Eagle Star in Cheltenham has not been seen since Monday night . |
| 28 | As to what the hon. Gentleman said about those who worked for Karl Construction , the building firm that was decimated on Friday , let me pay here , on the Floor of the House , the most profound tribute to those in civilian employment in the Province who go to work to make it possible for the security forces to do their job . |
| 29 | Then I met Alan , who worked for Olo Surfboards . |
| 30 | Then a woman in the street — the Via Monserato , between the Tiber and the Farnese Square , they talked about it so much , Mena and my grandmother , when I was little , I think they talked about it every day : Il Quartiere Papale , it does have a magnificent sound , has n't it ? and so much of it a slum ; the rich live above on the piani nobili , the ground floors and cellars are rented out to artisans ; my mother , who was brought up in those streets , says to know them you must have breathed the air in the evenings when the wine-shops are full and they are lighting charcoal braziers on the pavements ; she says I will go one day , but I think I know already — well , a woman in Mena 's street who sold salad greens knew the cook who worked for Anna and the prince round the corner and Mena was given things to do in the kitchen . |