Example sentences of "had worked [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her eyes felt heavy , she had worked much of the previous night and most of the day to have the shoes for the theatre people ready in time . |
| 2 | Elaine a retired civil servant who had worked all her life , felt she made a mistake in retiring at the same time as her friend Louise who had always opted out of the cooking and cleaning in favour of gardening and doing the decorating . |
| 3 | The girl 's father , Jack Malone , had worked all his life for the convent as handyman and gardener . |
| 4 | Hari was tired , she had worked all day and then walked over to the other side of town and back and now there was supper to get . |
| 5 | He had installed her in a cottage on East Street and in the last few days before the wedding she had worked all hours to spicken the place up and turn it into a home for him . |
| 6 | He was an elderly Scotsman , a man of the north , who had worked all his life in South London and was now near to retirement ; he had known Phyllis Henley for almost all of his career . |
| 7 | The fall of the Berlin Wall also destroyed the regime within which most scientists in East Germany had worked all their lives . |
| 8 | It did n't take a psychic to see that Annie had worked that out for herself . |
| 9 | The vaults were then changed at night or when the bus had finished service and then were counted by a different means , they were counted by machine coin counters and er so , instead of say erm what , sixty or seventy conductors paying in their money , this was all erm on the bus , so there may have been five or six drivers had worked that bus that day and all the takings he 'd taken during the time was all in this night safe in this vault . |
| 10 | Laing had worked some fiddle and had n't minded being caught ; he said he 'd proved that the state only acknowledged the work of mothers when they did n't do it … |
| 11 | As a programmer struggles over the fifth tedious revision of a 25-word frame , it is difficult to escape the conclusion that if he had worked this hard on every sentence of the textbooks he had written , these textbooks would probably teach as well as programmes … |
| 12 | Mr. Flitch , not a bad man , had worked most of his life in India in the tea business . |