Example sentences of "[pers pn] had work for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twelve days before her death Mrs Gilfoyle had started maternity leave from the Champion Spark Plug factory , where she had worked for 17 years . |
| 2 | Miss Grimes , with whom she had worked for several years , was hardly the most congenial of companions but at least she was familiar . |
| 3 | ‘ They would not have to wait until they had worked for two years before being eligible for unemployment and sickness benefit or parental leave . ’ |
| 4 | The investigators knew that within an hour or so of their arrival at the accident site , but they had to work for another year and a half to find out why : |
| 5 | It had worked for that other Sabine , she thought . |
| 6 | He had worked hard all his life and had served his country for four years and was looking forward to retirement in the home he had worked for all his days . |
| 7 | He had worked for twelve years on matters covered by the Official Secrets Act , of which , obviously , he was a signatory . |
| 8 | He had worked for various firms doing all sorts of jobs , for he was nothing if not adaptable , and recently , just as he was approaching retirement , the firm he worked for in Deptford had become bankrupt . |
| 9 | According to the paper , he had worked for 21 years as a judge and preacher and was an outstanding reciter of the Koran and the author of books on Islamic law . |
| 10 | His explanation that he had worked for several years for one master , until his employer had died , mollified Jonadab a little . |
| 11 | Instead he had worked for several years for Lintas , the advertising agency owned by Unilever , only abandoning this job a few months before war broke out in order to concentrate for a period entirely on his painting . |
| 12 | Robinson , made redundant by the takeover of Camerons Brewery , where he had worked for 19 years , will continue to play for West for the rest of the season . |
| 13 | Despite the fact that he had worked for most of the period of his contract in England , lived in England , was paid in English currency and paid National Insurance contributions in the UK , he was at all times liable to be recalled to Dhaka . |
| 14 | Another man , a colleague in the newspaper industry in London , left the office where he had worked for most of his adult life to travel home for the weekend . |