Example sentences of "had worked in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Goscinny had worked in America with Harvey Kurtzman of MAD fame : he had become dissatisfied as a draughtsman and chose to redirect his talents to story-telling . |
| 2 | Word-list style is a careful style in his terms ( but as we have shown in a number of publications , Labov 's predictions about the stylistic continuum did not work in this divergent-dialect community in the way that they had worked in New York City ) . |
| 3 | Dalmatinac , like many of the Dalmatian artists of the time , had worked in Italy . |
| 4 | He had worked in South America and was now exploring the Malay archipelago ( modern Indonesia ) . |
| 5 | There was a lot of use of film , but with the exception of people like Alan Bromly , who had worked in movies , few knew how to make best use of it . |
| 6 | A. N. Richards ( 1876–1966 ) had worked in England with Florey and was now a scientific power in America and a source of valuable information . |
| 7 | Like so many biochemists of the time , Raistrick had worked in Hopkins 's laboratory , using chemical methods to study the living cells of micro-organisms . |
| 8 | Amy nodded , her eyes like saucers , and Kathleen remembered the first time she had worked in A and E. |
| 9 | What his masters did n't know was that when Coy had worked in Washington for six years as a junior military attache in the British Embassy , the DDI was one of the young Americans he had befriended . |
| 10 | ‘ I had worked in recruitment so I knew what I was in for : it can be a nightmare . ’ |
| 11 | Dolle described herself as a dancer ( she had worked in Las Vegas ) and a traveller . |
| 12 | Between 1980 and 1981 she had worked in Dunstable as an office manager . |
| 13 | As they spoke , Tiny and Joe Jacklin , two brothers who had worked in Yanto 's gang on the ‘ Marit ’ , cycled past on their way home . |
| 14 | It would have been too much of a coincidence to have expected Tony Cable to be the engineering investigator at the top of the go-team list since he had worked in Seattle for the Boeing Company before he joined AIB ( the ‘ Branch ’ , as it is known by its members ) and his personal knowledge of that company 's products is obviously substantial . |
| 15 | Frances joined us from PMD where she worked in marketing Bullion Products for two years , prior to that she had worked in marketing at the Financial Times . |
| 16 | One of their interventions , the family smoking education project , had worked in Norway , but at the same time as the price , availability , and promotion of cigarettes were being controlled . |
| 17 | When we arrived home Ben asked Montagu Slater to write the libretto ; he was a playwright and had worked in films , and Ben had written incidental music for a number of his Left Theatre productions , including a very well-XXXX received play called Stay Down Miner , during the thirties . |
| 18 | He had worked in Belfast in the late 1940s , and compared the Labour scene in Derry unfavourably with that of the larger city : ‘ We may pride ourselves on being a city but politically we are still a small Ulster town . ’ |
| 19 | A number of them had worked in Nouadhibou , Mauritania 's second largest town . |
| 20 | He insisted that the female lead had worked in Woolworths in Plymouth and he retained an unrequired passion for her . |