Example sentences of "[pron] worked for [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , this orgy of food and sex would have suited the dear departed Peter Langan ( with whom I worked for four years ) very nicely . |
| 2 | Following this period in the homoeopathic hospital I worked for two years in a professorial immunological unit where I set up studies in allergy to assess the efficacy of homoeopathic remedies in house-dust-mite allergy and hay fever ( allergy to grass pollens ) . |
| 3 | Yeah I worked for fives years I 've plenty of practice |
| 4 | Before having my first child four years ago , I worked for several years as a secretary at the head office of Sainsbury 's in Canterbury , and a further year as a personal assistant for Kent County Council . |
| 5 | I used to run an English and Scottish dancing class at the old high school in Cleveland Avenue , before it became Hummersknot School in 1955 where I worked for 22 years part-time , teaching dance . |
| 6 | ‘ I worked for three years in the Collector of Taxes department , which was really just shuffling papers and asking for money . |
| 7 | I worked for three years as a school counsellor in South Brompton , and the majority of the children who came my way were children who had some degree of behavioural difficulty or emotional disturbance . |
| 8 | You said you worked for twenty years about , |
| 9 | Mr Wheeler , an engineer who worked for many years in the oil business , is a pleasant , slightly worried-looking man who can not bear the fact that no one seems to realise just what lengths he goes to in order to keep the plant squeaky clean and emission-free . |
| 10 | On the other side of the entrance to Garden Cottages was a small house in the occupation of Mr. Truckle who was a coalman and his wife who worked for many years at The Salisbury Steam Laundry . |
| 11 | The clock now stands beside the one given to her husband , who worked for many years at Glazier Metals Ltd . |
| 12 | Previously Bill who worked for many years as sales manager with G.U.S . |
| 13 | Previously , she worked for five years as an executive secretary with Balfour Kilpatrick , the Electrical Engineering Company in Renfrew . |
| 14 | At CBS , where she worked for eight years , she remembers up to a hundred tapes pouring into the office each week . |
| 15 | Renowned for her ‘ tomboyish tastes ’ ( she would , even in evening dress , always carry a knife and some string about her person ) , Emma went on to the School for Ornamental Art and began to support early Victorian feminist causes , making an initial living as a restorer of stained-glass windows notably in the chapel of Merton College , Oxford , where she worked for two years in the early 1860s . |
| 16 | She worked for 25 years at the Burtons Biscuit factory , now based at Sighthill , and for many years was a union branch secretary . |
| 17 | " And we worked for many years before we collected a single cup of rubber , do you hear ? |
| 18 | They worked for 38 years at the Nuffield Press in Oxford . |
| 19 | He worked for five years on preparing the case before committing suicide out of bitter frustration . |
| 20 | Previously he worked for nineteen years in Kirkcaldy as a Shift Manager . |
| 21 | Now a qualified CA , he worked for six years in the Middle East , mainly in Palestine/Israel and the Lebanon . |
| 22 | He worked for many years with Darlington firm Paton and Baldwin , rising to the position of chairman of sales before his retirement . |
| 23 | He worked for three years with Sir Samuel Canning [ q.v. ] , |
| 24 | A director of Courtaulds Textiles , he was equally well known in Courtaulds , where he worked for 25 years before the textiles demerger in 1990 . |
| 25 | In the 1960s he worked for several years in industry , including a period as Chief Architect at Camus , before being appointed Head of the Architectural Division at the National Building Agency . |
| 26 | He worked for several years at the British Rail Works in Swindon , where he was regularly exposed to asbestos . |
| 27 | When he came out he worked for some years at a stud-farm at Henley ( Suffolk ) ; then he went back to smithing and worked for many years at Needham Market , a large village near Ipswich : |
| 28 | Born in Devon in 1954 , Andrew Mudge left school at the age of fifteen and did nine years ' service in the Navy before becoming Gardener for the Trust at Castle Drogo where he worked for seven years . |