Example sentences of "[pers pn] was work for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The first time I met her , while I was working for him , I think she knew that I had fallen in love with him and yet she was kinder to me than anyone I 've ever known . |
| 2 | At least it felt like it was my own money and I was working for it . |
| 3 | ‘ He flew back today and heard I was working for you , so he — ’ |
| 4 | A year later , when she was working for her O-levels , she became pregnant . |
| 5 | She was working for his charity for a third of what she could earn in the City , he enthused . |
| 6 | Alyssia opened her mouth to give him a piece of her mind at this further show of arrogance — in fact , to give him the sack , because his mere presence here implied that he was working for her father , and so , in an indirect manner , for herself — but he did n't allow her the chance . |
| 7 | At the age of 12 , Kitto was taken on by his father to assist him in his trade , and it was shortly afterwards when he was working for his father slating a new roof that he lost his footing in the act of stepping off a ladder and fell thirty-five feet to the ground . |
| 8 | He was working for his cousin in Sheffield market as an apprentice butcher , but had bought a trumpet and intended , one day , to become Louis Armstrong . |