Example sentences of "worked [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hot gases from pyrites burners , mixed with steam , were passed over small blocks of moulded salt , a process which worked successfully for many years ; the works was absorbed by the United Alkali Co. in 1890 and the last Hargreaves–Robinson saltcake plant closed in 1918 . |
| 2 | As the Potato Marketing Board has for many years worked successfully for the benefit of processors , consumers and producers , does he agree that any proposals to scrap the PMB should be strongly resisted ? |
| 3 | But this joint venture between the two parents ' genes worked only for the main genes within the nucleus of a living cell . |
| 4 | It was considered that the larger Devon found in Somerset formed a link to the big , powerful ploughing oxen of Sussex which , even in the mid-nineteenth century , were regarded also as valuable beef makers , worked only for three or four years before being turned over to the fatteners . |
| 5 | Now it turned out that Jacobi 's method worked only for even numbers of squares , and that the case of an odd number was much harder . |
| 6 | In a bare , narrow room , which also served as Zbo 's ‘ gallery ’ , Modigliani worked daily for fifteen francs . |
| 7 | They worked together for six months in project planning and Brown took a teaching job at the Strathclyde Business School which also allowed him to keep looking for hotel sites . |
| 8 | We marched together to and from Aldermaston , we worked together for co-operative socialism , we campaigned together for health , welfare , employment , education and housing in our ‘ inner city ’ constituencies . |
| 9 | They worked together for over three years before they fell in love . |
| 10 | American and Japanese scientists worked together for three seasons , sharing equally in the specimens discovered . |
| 11 | They worked together for many years ; they would drink together on an evening . |
| 12 | Our knowledge of this comes very largely from David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel , who worked together for twenty years at Harvard Medical School , recording from single neurons of the visual cortex — the part of the neocortex that receives its input mainly from the eyes . |
| 13 | They worked together for more than twenty years . |
| 14 | Bateson and Punnett worked together for nearly seven years ; they were the founders of experimental genetics in Britain , and the main exponents of Mendel 's models of inheritance . |
| 15 | Clearly all things worked together for good in this family where friction was as rare as in a well-oiled machine . |
| 16 | , centre , with workmate , right , and ( retired ) who worked together for most of 's 20 years at . |
| 17 | Never afraid of disturbing cosy arrangements that had outlived their usefulness , McEwan Younger worked single-mindedly for a merger with William Youngers , another family company . |
| 18 | So in 1972 a new secretary was appointed for the task , Anthony Gray , who worked away for some years and helped set it on its feet again . |
| 19 | Feeling depressed they worked away for the rest of the night . |
| 20 | He worked successively for the BBC World Service and for the news agencies Associated Press and Reuters . |
| 21 | I tentatively infer from the paper cited above that the strategy which worked best for Hearsay-II — the W algorithm — explored the search space in a manner very similar to HARPY 's beam search , particularly as the same finite-state grammar was used in both cases . |
| 22 | His mouth worked soundlessly for several seconds before he found his voice . |
| 23 | Whilst James worked selflessly for the party , sending forth a barrage of witty and caustic editorials , particularly on the issue of Chaguaramas . |
| 24 | He worked doggedly for beauty , sonority , exactness ; perfection — but never the monogrammed perfection of a writer like Wilde . |
| 25 | He worked contentedly for some time and was deep in the intricacies of a genealogy when the telephone rang . |
| 26 | Although a private man and somewhat of a loner , he worked tirelessly for the department both in a teaching and administrative capacity . |
| 27 | Kevin Keen worked tirelessly for the Londoners and Alvin Martin was prominent in defence despite the heavy scoreline . |
| 28 | With the chairman , David Lindsay , Earl of Crawford and Balcarres [ q.v. ] , he worked tirelessly for the library at a critical period in its history . |
| 29 | Dorothy and her husband worked tirelessly for the various mission projects . |
| 30 | He worked tirelessly for WWF throughout his life and was Trustee Emeritus of WWF-UK when he died . |