Example sentences of "he [verb] work [prep] [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 | He had worked for so many nineteenth-century showmen that he was able to outdo them all . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | " 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 " . |
| 5 | For eleven years , loyally assisted by his wife , he had worked under almost intolerable conditions . |
| 6 | In 1923 he obtained two consultant posts as children 's physician , one at the Queen 's Hospital for Children , where for ten years he was in charge of the London county council rheumatic and heart clinic , and the other at Paddington Green Children 's Hospital , where he continued to work for nearly forty years . |