Example sentences of "had worked for [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Thus wrote Fuller in a paper published after his death , on which he had worked for over 20 years .
2 The tribunal had heard evidence that names on nursing rostas included people who had never worked there , and two who had worked for only one day .
3 He had worked for so many nineteenth-century showmen that he was able to outdo them all .
4 For instance , on the day we moved , while the men were still lurching around with their crates and cardboard boxes , Tod slipped out into the garden-the garden on which he had worked for so many years .
5 " It was one of the major tragedies of Nicholas I that his reign ended in a war over the Turkish problem which he had worked for so long to solve by peaceful and negotiated agreement " .
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