Example sentences of "had worked for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He had worked for a year in the Ukraine and said he liked the people there more than those he had met in the West - they were more open and friendly .
2 But your difficulty , surely , is that even if sanctions had worked for a year or even two years , you would still be left with that formidable monster of a regime …
3 Members of the Doyle family had worked for a company operating a fleet of ice-cream vans in the city .
4 Members of the Doyle family had worked for a company operating a fleet of ice-cream vans in the city .
5 Members of the Doyle family had worked for a company operating a fleet of ice-cream vans in the city .
6 It was true that there were now ‘ whole chanceries ’ of paperwork in the offices of village-Soviet secretaries , but most of the secretaries had worked for the volost' in the Tsarist regime and were somewhat suspect .
7 Lawrie had worked for the organisation for four years but had not been offered an interview , he claimed .
8 Cracks were revealed in some French-manufactured pressure vessels and other parts for PWRs in 1979 and their dangers were publicized by an engineer , Shoja Etemad , who had worked for the company Framatome .
9 Whilst remembering the old days I was surprised to hear that ran in the family as his wife 's father had worked for the Company at the turn of the century .
10 He confirmed that Mark Newall had worked for the bank in France , London , Jersey and New York .
11 The likeliest explanation seemed to be that , in the autumn of 1986 , Control had indicated to the DEA that Coleman had worked for the DIA in the past but , as he was no longer active , the agency had no objection to his taking up a consultant 's job with Hurley on Cyprus .
12 He was flown to America and during his debriefing exposed two Russian spies , Edward Howard , who worked for the CIA , and Ronald Pelton , who had worked for the NSA .
13 She had worked for the Underground movement , involved in forging passports and papers for people trying to escape across the Channel ; had been discovered but saved from death by a German , who had raped her and kept her as his own prisoner .
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