Example sentences of "worked for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although working people are now more likely to be contributing to an occupational or personal pension , even in future years not all people will have been able to accumulate sufficient provision to support themselves in retirement — for example those people who have not worked for many years because they were unemployed or disabled or caring for relatives . |
| 2 | Much of the mill 's corn milling equipment , as well as the iron water wheel , still survive , although not worked for many years . |
| 3 | Francis tells of a Canadian discus thrower , Rob Gray , who had worked for many years to reach the 58 metre mark . |
| 4 | One of my former patients , a respected scientist who had worked for many years in the field of cancer research , still kept the inferior Inner Face inflicted on him by demanding parents and a series of thoughtless teachers . |
| 5 | Mr. Maton had worked for many years as a solicitor 's clerk , he had not turned up for work that day , the young man sent to check the reason had found Mr. Maton dead in the kitchen , the small loaf collected on his way home from work the previous evening still in its wrapping on the table . |
| 6 | Kate had worked for many years with her firm , finishing as head of the sales department . |
| 7 | Leonard Brandwood has worked for many decades on the chronology of Plato 's dialogues . |
| 8 | This speaker , a deaf teacher of the deaf who had worked for many years in the Department of Education of the Deaf at Manchester University , had been a committed " oralist " . |
| 9 | ‘ I have worked for many centuries to lift it , Nuadu , but it is a long hard task , for the punishment was to be eternal . ’ |
| 10 | She teaches in a middle school where she has worked for many years . |
| 11 | To mark the occassion a farewell dinner was given to Trevor and his wife Barbara at the Post House Hotel in Norwich , attended by Joint M.D. Rod Turnbull , Sales Directors Steve Higgins and Jack Millar , together with many colleagues and customers with whom Trevor had worked for many years . |
| 12 | She equipped herself with secretarial skills when her family was growing up , and has worked for many interesting people and for the Diocese of Bath and Wells with Bishop John Bickersteth . |
| 13 | It had worked for that other Sabine , she thought . |
| 14 | An attempt was made to reconcile the calculation of the average hours worked for all enterprises with the labour requirements of these enterprises . |
| 15 | ‘ One thing I still find hard to take in is how hard my mother worked for all of us . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | His explanation that he had worked for several years for one master , until his employer had died , mollified Jonadab a little . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Miss Grimes , with whom she had worked for several years , was hardly the most congenial of companions but at least she was familiar . |
| 20 | Born in Hawick , he was a late starter in photography , having worked for several years with a water board , but his eye for a picture has brought him distinction on numerous occasions . |
| 21 | The I O C's choice of Atlanta , Georgia to host the centennial Olympic Games has not only shocked and disappointed the Athens delegation here in Tokyo , it has brought disappointment to the team from Manchester who 'd worked for several years to fulfil the dream of bringing the Games to the U K for the first time since 1948 . |
| 22 | A newly retired further education teacher who had worked for both the Home Office as a prison instructor and for a local authority as a teacher of technical subjects , applied for two part-time jobs . |
| 23 | MEDICS and police last night worked for more than an hour to rescue a teenage girl who fell 30ft down a railway embankment . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | A survey in 1982 found that a third of the left-wing Labour councillors either worked for another local authority ( including teachers ) or were full-time councillors living off their allowances . |
| 27 | Yeah I said well I earn half of it as well then and I 've worked for half of it , but I ai n't paying the bills either |
| 28 | As so often in this story of my own anorexia nervosa , I find myself arriving at the same conclusion , the same central statement : it could have worked for some people , but it did n't work for me . |
| 29 | John has a wealth of experience in the hotel business , having worked for some of the largest chains in the country including a stint at the Savoy in London . |
| 30 | Because I have worked for some time now on the forming of music and sounds , and through this specific endeavour have become aware of the " molecular structure " parallel , I can see great form in " Beautiful Landscape Traversed By Electricity Pylons " , " Tiny Aeroplane In One Expansive Sky " , " One Cup of Tea With Spoon And Attached Shadows " , " One Bogey Slightly Protruding From Person 's Nose " and , apart from when I 'm blackly depressed , Life is seen from inside me to be better every day because of my positive use of the rich energy that is emitted from every thing , live or dead . |