Example sentences of "worked for " in BNC.
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| 1 | As an individual who worked for over 10 years in relatively senior positions for two of the ‘ major brewers ’ , I thought it ironic that here was one set of red tape specialists accusing another . |
| 2 | He worked for the NCC for 18 years , until his retirement ( as Chief Warden for North Wales ) in 1978 . |
| 3 | Mr Wheeler , an engineer who worked for many years in the oil business , is a pleasant , slightly worried-looking man who can not bear the fact that no one seems to realise just what lengths he goes to in order to keep the plant squeaky clean and emission-free . |
| 4 | Eduard Shevardnadze , the Soviet Foreign Minister , worked for a solution in telephone calls with East German , Czechoslovak and Polish leaders , they said . |
| 5 | So do major prints by Sam Francis ( who lived and worked for a while in Japan ) . |
| 6 | After 10 years he worked for The Farmers Journal . |
| 7 | Mr Turner was a chartered surveyor who worked for Hamptons estate agents , but had realised that he ‘ patently was n't suited to selling houses ’ . |
| 8 | He could be mean to those who worked for him and generous to those to whom he owed nothing . |
| 9 | Dr Stehelin said he worked for Dr Bishop and Dr Varmus in their San Francisco laboratory between 1972 and 1975 , and was the principal signer of the first article in the scientific magazine Nature , in 1976 , that said a cancer virus was causing cancer by means of a gene it had captured from normal cells . |
| 10 | Still , this orgy of food and sex would have suited the dear departed Peter Langan ( with whom I worked for four years ) very nicely . |
| 11 | Mrs Thatcher has a new party chairman , Mr Baker , who worked for Mr Heath , and in former days was a notorious wet . |
| 12 | ‘ It worked for me , ’ Feherty said , confessing that he had not seen the back nine of the course before because his practice had been restricted by bad light . |
| 13 | Twice he worked for the Wellington City Mission , among the lost and lonely people of the inner city . |
| 14 | Yet another suspect category were the many spetsy ( bourgeois specialists ) who worked for the Commissariat . |
| 15 | Michael went with her to meetings and joined her when she worked for the Liberal cause because it was the next best thing to Labour . |
| 16 | The reason it worked for me and the straits was threefold . |
| 17 | Don Letts — who then worked for Acme Attractions and was until recently part of Big Audio Dynamite — was always in . |
| 18 | It was also during this period that we had the strangest set of photographs taken of us , by Peter Christopherson who worked for a design company , Hipgnosis — whose offices were at the back of our Denmark Street HQ — and who later joined Throbbing Gristle , a band best known for tabloid spreads on their occult practices . |
| 19 | He worked for compromises between the ‘ Wets ’ and Mrs Thatcher , but at the end always backed Mrs Thatcher . |
| 20 | I did n't own the companies I worked for . |
| 21 | Before going into the cosmetic business she was a teacher , and worked for the United Nations in Geneva . |
| 22 | Later , after four years in detention during the Mau Mau Emergency , he worked for an Indian workshop in Nairobi establishing himself as the pioneer manufacturer of bicycle carriers and foreguards . |
| 23 | He took us inside and introduced us to Kjell-Arne , a lanky , shy youth who worked for him and was told to make coffee , and Tove , the kennel girl . |
| 24 | After coming here I worked for four months in a sweet factory in Stratford . |
| 25 | It worked for me , and I hope it works for you . |
| 26 | Mrs Seaton 's husband died so she did n't have no money — that 's why she worked for us . |
| 27 | Inspired by the coral coasts of Papua New Guinea ( where Liz lived and worked for nine years ) , this aquarium on silk is made by using a rubber-based glue called gutta in the same way that wax is used in the batik process . |
| 28 | The principal members were a private secretary , Oliver Everett , who worked for the diplomatic service and was recalled from Madrid to set up her office ; and Anne Beckwith-Smith , a specialist in eighteenth-century English painting , who worked at Sotheby 's and was brought in as full-time lady-in-waiting . |
| 29 | Most important of all , he inspired the people who worked for him with a vision of what they were doing . |
| 30 | Director for the past five years of the National Campaign for the Arts , he previously worked for the former Labour minister , Mr Albert Booth , and the Low Pay Unit . |