Example sentences of "[noun sg] i work [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Clare Lawrence ( Mrs Hatcher ) writes , ‘ Since qualifying as a solicitor specialising in corporate and commercial work in private practice I worked in industry 1986- 8 as a Legal Director of Bricom plc . |
| 3 | ‘ Guess it 's some kind of indigenous British bird , huh ? ’ , suggested an American copy editor I worked with recently when he was checking the meaning of the term ‘ reggie-spotter ’ . |
| 4 | Need a the , these Fiestas , but they never get them right at the , the bloke I works with got one exactly the same as this does exactly ten miles and it cuts out on him . |
| 5 | During the war I worked for the women 's voluntary service and shortly afterwards I went abroad for a few years , returning in the late 1940s , divorced with three children . |
| 6 | For all the family commitment , the team I work for is the team I want to win . ’ |
| 7 | During this period I worked as a computer programmer in Accra for a year . |
| 8 | Well it , it , at least it 's gold , I mean , I , I , I was in the jewellery trade when I first left school , between school and national service I worked at a manufacturing jewellers in Birmingham and I 've never really gone along with the idea that nine carat is actually gold . |
| 9 | For example one person I worked with was a single parent who had five dependent children living with her , and no other adult appeared to be involved . |
| 10 | During the decade I worked in the National Health Service , I saw countless martyrs — and a good proportion of them were the staff . |
| 11 | ‘ In the week I work for man , but on Sunday I work for God . |
| 12 | A high degree of constructive conflict is almost essential in this process and I should perhaps quote the comments of a wise manager I worked for at one time , who pointed out that in industry the optimum level of conflict is not zero ; just as no friction or one hundred per cent friction immobilizes movement in a mechanical sense , so total absence of conflict or one hundred per cent conflict will immobilize movement in a company . |
| 13 | P.S. If it 's any consolation the Polish woman I work with said ‘ Is no problem . |
| 14 | Finally a woman I worked with told me in no uncertain terms that she had no such desire , which threw me utterly . |
| 15 | ‘ I was always the top broker at any firm I worked for on Wall Street and before that I sold memberships at the Museum of Modern Art . |
| 16 | I was my own boss for a start — the man I worked for left after about seven months , and the man who took over did n't know anything about it : I knew more about the job than he did , so I had to tell him what to do for the first six months … in fact he tried to get the job upgraded anyway . |
| 17 | Er in other words , er when I was fifteen I got sixpence a week extra and a little more from the man I worked with . |
| 18 | There was a man I worked with — I done seven seasons along with him : and there was n't so much as an angry word or dammit passed between us . |
| 19 | ‘ The man I work for , ’ Trent said . |
| 20 | After graduation I worked in London for a couple of years , but in 1985 a decision had to be made : my husband had just finished a sixmonth intensive training course at the Thatching Advisory Service in Berkshire . |
| 21 | And the organization I work for is a little like that too . |
| 22 | Following this period in the homoeopathic hospital I worked for two years in a professorial immunological unit where I set up studies in allergy to assess the efficacy of homoeopathic remedies in house-dust-mite allergy and hay fever ( allergy to grass pollens ) . |
| 23 | But I like the crowd I work with — some of them , anyhow . |
| 24 | I remember when I started my training I work with this girl and I said where 'd you come from and she said I come from the most boring town in Britain , I says where Grantham ? , she says yeah , I says is it boring , she says yeah huh , it is |
| 25 | ‘ On the nights I 'm on duty I work from seven-thirty to nine-thirty . |
| 26 | P.S. I work for the Inland Revenue — am I still allowed to be a punk ? |
| 27 | That said , the working environment in OS/2 is different enough that I found myself trying to unlearn the way I work at present and trying to use the system the way IBM meant it to be used . |
| 28 | The company I worked for folded just a couple of weeks ago . ’ |
| 29 | It 's probably a similar situation at er , the last company I worked for , used to have me , me lunch hour , I used to go down the swimming baths and do two and half hours there . |
| 30 | When the company I work for went through a rough patch , there were no pay rises for two years . |