Example sentences of "[pron] work for " in BNC.
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| 31 | I use to dread going in to work — in the two years I worked for the Inland Revenue I do not think I worked a full month — and in the end I left . |
| 32 | ‘ I worked for Creed , 'Jed went on . |
| 33 | I played on four albums for Barry Gibb ; I worked for Dionne Warwick on the ‘ Heartbreaker ’ and some film music for ‘ Staying Alive ’ . |
| 34 | 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 ) . |
| 35 | When I worked for the Daily Telegraph , the editor , Bill Deedes , would say that he never missed the letters column of the Guardian . |
| 36 | ‘ I worked for three years in the Collector of Taxes department , which was really just shuffling papers and asking for money . |
| 37 | ‘ For two years after college graduation , I worked for one of the small local accounting firms . |
| 38 | Later I tell C that if I worked for the Daily Star , I 'd have my story already . |
| 39 | Before having my first child four years ago , I worked for several years as a secretary at the head office of Sainsbury 's in Canterbury , and a further year as a personal assistant for Kent County Council . |
| 40 | ‘ I worked for a bit when I was about eighteen . |
| 41 | After I left university , I worked for a Black community project and joined a Black socialist group . |
| 42 | I worked for one of the youngest couples on our street , who were so chic they even had an Afghan hound . |
| 43 | ‘ 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 . |
| 44 | Then I worked for Jimmy Young for quite a long time … he saved my bacon . |
| 45 | I worked for what INCUBUS called the Profiles — Psychological Research Division . |
| 46 | I worked for a photographic company |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | All the time I worked for him , he seemed to be calling me Hancock , Harris or Hopkins — Hockin , or more often Bruce , on the days he was less vague and preoccupied . |
| 50 | Well I worked for the past two year really |
| 51 | ‘ The things I 've seen in them vats when I worked for the brewery . ’ |
| 52 | Then I worked for the BBC — my favourite charity , really . |
| 53 | It 's not as if I worked for a large network news show . |
| 54 | ‘ To begin with , I worked for the family , pushing the churns round the streets on the milk-cart , but then I got too old for that , and I applied for work with the Dock workers Guild at Jubilee Wharf . ’ |
| 55 | ‘ Before I escaped from Rotterdam , I worked for British Intelligence . |
| 56 | ‘ Yeah , I worked for him . ’ |
| 57 | That was what , that was nineteen twenty eight , when I started work and I worked for and M. |
| 58 | ‘ I worked for Charles Laughton , the actor , and his wife Elsa Lanchester , the actress . |
| 59 | I got this job in the machine sh in one of the lock shops and er for a fellow , I worked for him and er after I 'd been working for him they wanted me to work for somebody else but this fellow would n't let me go . |
| 60 | Then I was able to er go for my own self , you know and er I went on doing locks , one thing and another , best I could and all that sort of thing and I worked for a , a bloke what was in there er be a little bloke but he was the best locksmith in the shop and I went to help him and er he used to give me all the to do and this and that and the other . |