Example sentences of "had work in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had to work in the knowledge that he could be reported to the Inquisition at any time , when his writings would become the subject of serious scrutiny . |
| 2 | Before they gave me a bike I had to earn it , I had to work in the garden . |
| 3 | Even more remarkable was the change which the war had wrought in the relations between the union and the Shipping Federation and that which had developed between Havelock Wilson and the labour movement . |
| 4 | He had worked in the school for several years but so far neither gardai nor health board officials have contacted the school authorities about the case . |
| 5 | More than two-fifths of them had worked in the company for at least thirty years . |
| 6 | Her father , Ray Shepherd had worked in the shipyard until it closed and her elder brother , Steve , had been out of work since leaving school . |
| 7 | Three old men who had worked in the mines were found " … being all there alive in this County " , and based upon their evidence — " An account of the names of the severall Copper Workes or Mynes in Coniston fells that wer wrought in , when the smelt houses were up at Keswick . |
| 8 | The man was relaxed and rested and Holly felt the tiredness brush through his mind and for nine and a half hours he had worked in the Factory at the lathe that fashioned chairs ' legs . |
| 9 | The censor , Jernej Kopitar , a Slovene who had worked in the household of Baron Žiga Zois , the patron of the Slovene literary revival ( see above , pp. 53–4 ) , became a close friend of Vuk . |
| 10 | The evidence was that he had worked in the UK for 40 weeks and in Italy for 50 weeks . |
| 11 | By the early seventies , Teheran was littered with forgotten men who had worked in the government or the court and had once-once was too often-dared to question a decision or a policy and had thenceforth been frozen out of all official life . |
| 12 | Bull had worked in the past on a joint US/Canadian High Altitude Research Project ( HARP ) , which had examined the possibility of firing missiles and rockets into space using a giant gun . |
| 13 | ( Skokov had worked in the defence industry ; Filatov was seen as reflecting the views of the Supreme Soviet Chair , Ruslan Khasbulatov , who was increasingly antagonistic to the government 's reforms ; and Rutskoi , also critical of the government , had influence among the army and led the newly formed and already influential Civic Union — see p. 38974 . ) |
| 14 | In 1867 Nettlefold married a Catholic , Mary Maria Seaborne ( 1835– c .1886/7 ) , who had worked in the Broad Street warehouse , the daughter of Joseph Chamberlain , shoe manufacturer at 36 Milk Street , London . |
| 15 | All along the Great Edge , from the Castle Rock northwards , they had worked in the sun , with bent backs and aching arms . |
| 16 | He had worked in the country for 27 years . |
| 17 | David Singleton , prosecuting for FACT , said Sturdy had worked in the video business long enough to learn about counterfeits . |
| 18 | It was Sid , the Commando with the Cockney accent who had worked in the Kent coalfields . |
| 19 | Before he joined NCPR Lorton had worked in the personnel department of a firm which marketed burglar alarms . |
| 20 | Had worked in the United States for a while and returned to England minus his American wife . |
| 21 | I am told that other people have had similar experiences but are not prepared to enlarge on their stories ; perhaps they had seen a ghost of a long-gone railwayman who had worked in the area years ago and had come back to his earthly place of employment ! |
| 22 | As a final ironic footnote , in August 1982 , after the showing of a documentary on Yorkshire television on the hazards of asbestos , Liam Beecher of the ITGWU , one of the officials involved in the Raybestos controversy , expressed concern over the effect on the health of the Raybestos workers of their exposure to asbestos in the factory and called for regular monitoring of the health of the 130 people who had worked in the Raybestos Manhattan factory . |
| 23 | Professor Hare , as he later became , was an eminent bacteriologist and had worked in the laboratories where the discovery was made , so his account is preferable to some of those written by imaginative authors with no scientific training . |
| 24 | She had worked in the supermarket off Mulfords Hill for five and a half months . |
| 25 | Although Mr Salmon had already told me that we had declared war against the Germans almost a year ago — none of us having heard of Archduke Franz Ferdinand — we only found out how serious it was when a lot of young lads who had worked in the market began to disappear off to ‘ the front ’ to be replaced by their younger brothers — and sometimes even sisters . |
| 26 | They claimed the people 's votes because they had worked in the people 's interest and not their own … |
| 27 | We had worked in the kitchens , in the Officers ' mess and the clothing stores , and had spent afternoons and evenings discussing our futures together . |
| 28 | A trained nurse , now forced into exile in Mexico City , had worked in the Maternity Hospital of San Salvador until 1981 and described conditions there : |
| 29 | Mr Cadell had worked in the Department of Manuscripts since 1968 , with two years , 1978–80 , as Assistant Secretary in Administration . |
| 30 | Kougjolou Dogo , who had worked in the President 's Office , became Rural Development Minister . |