Example sentences of "had [verb] work [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the Sowan affair the Foreign Office expelled the five-man team of Mossad agents that Britain had permitted to work unofficially in London . |
| 2 | Red Rum was an eight-year-old , and had had to work hard for his corn , being trained in several yards and shrugging off the effects of damaging foot disease , before finding his true vocation in the care of trainer Ginger McCain , who bought Red Rum for 6000 guineas on behalf of owner Noel Le Mare , and gradually made the horse into one of the best chasers in the north ; he owed his position in the Grand National betting to highly encouraging runs in three handicaps early in 1973 following five successive victories the previous autumn . |
| 3 | By Aug. 27 the US Defence Department and the ICRC announced that they had agreed to work together on the airlift . |
| 4 | On Nov. 6 it was announced that four Oromo organizations , the OPDO , the Islamic Front for the Liberation of Oromia ( IFLO ) , the United Oromo People 's Liberation Front ( UOPLF ) and the Oromo Abo Liberation Front ( OALF ) , had agreed to work together towards the creation of a " broad-based national entity " . |
| 5 | Citrine insisted that the departmental chief officers met with his full-time colleagues on the Authority weekly , encouraging the officers to comment on general policy matters rather than confining their comments to their own specialisms : a method he had found worked well at the TUC . |
| 6 | By Jan. 21 the US Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger , while clearly recognizing " Israel 's right as a sovereign state to retaliate , to defend itself " , was able to confirm that Israel had pledged to work closely with the USA and " will consult us first " before taking any such action . |
| 7 | According to Mustafa Dzhemilev , leader of the Crimean Tatars ' Majlis , 600 members of the local militia on Oct. 1 forced their way into the Krasnyy Ray settlement near Alushta ( where returning Tatars had started work independently on the construction of a camp after waiting in vain for local authorities to allocate land for the purpose ) , injuring several residents and arresting 26 . |
| 8 | Mr Kemp said that since the closure announcement staff at the homes in Newton Aycliffe , Durham City , Darlington , Bishop Auckland , Station Town , Chester-le-Street and Stanley , had continued to work hard with residents . |
| 9 | He believed , and she had once heard him say , that eventually she would , naturally , come round to his way of thinking , and she had vowed to work harder at the study of English literature in order to learn enough words to refute him once and for all . |
| 10 | Mary Mendum had begun working full-time in Tropical Biology and as Botanical Artist . |