Example sentences of "had [vb pp] work [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My only pen had stopped working at the start of the walk ; in the rain my watch face went blank . |
| 2 | Thanking everyone , Mr. Offer said he had enjoyed working for the parish council , the clubs and with two chairmen of the recreation committee , Wing Commander Archie Derry and Mr. Coyte . |
| 3 | The Madame lived to the age of 90. when she died , some time in the 1970s , the hotel was left to Abdulrahim , a Nubian from Aswan who had come to work for the Madame as a young boy before the Second World War . |
| 4 | Mrs Labno , mother of two sons , who lived in Moreton , Wirral , had hoped to work at the hospice . |
| 5 | Mrs Labno , mother of two sons , who lived in Moreton , Wirral , had hoped to work at the hospice . |
| 6 | Older women were least likely to be eligible because they had started working at the factory when the married women 's option ( i.e. to pay reduced NI contributions ) was in full operation and the majority had not considered it financially worthwhile to pay full contributions . |
| 7 | The bronze versions are very recent and faithful to Ernst 's instructions : when he returned to France after the war , he had planned to work on the project but did not manage to reach agreement with the current owners . |
| 8 | However , the Japanese Energy Agency later admitted that an emergency pressure release valve had failed to work during the shutdown process , forcing technicians to use a back-up water sprinkler system . |