Example sentences of "she [vb past] been working " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once she could not have imagined a greater disaster — all the garments she 'd been working on , with such dedication , day and night , for weeks on end now , had totally vanished , disappeared . |
| 2 | It was a planned pregnancy , and she 'd been working hard at getting her blood sugar under control , but that often ca n't be done overnight . ’ |
| 3 | Course she 'd been working hard well er not working hard you know just in the cleaning like that . |
| 4 | As she flicked over memories of the day — embracing in the cold silken water , under that mysterious layer of white mist which cut off the sky above yet gave clear vision to the other side , a quarter of a mile away — the sense of wicked escape , as they laughed together in the empty lunch-time pub … she decided that she would tell her mother she 'd been working both Sundays . |
| 5 | ‘ She 'd been working on them for quite a while . |
| 6 | She 'd set off at 2pm from TV-am , where she 'd been working since 8am on The Wide Awake Club . |
| 7 | It was an appreciative whistle and one that Rachel recognised , for since she 'd been working with five thousand men she had become well used to whistles of that nature . |
| 8 | ‘ Did n't she say where she 'd been working ? |
| 9 | My er my sister worked in the grenade shop and erm after she ca she 'd been working at , on the manor , do you know the manor at Willenhall and then er she decided to go on with the war work and she was courting the man named , John and his father was the timekeeper , later H & T Hornes , but erm it fizzled out and anyway the romance did but erm |
| 10 | He knew he had to turn his back on Crevecoeur , dreading the day he would see physical signs that SHe had been working . |
| 11 | She could remember Hamlet and the dates of important battles in the Revolutionary War and the names of Disney 's Seven Dwarfs and the telephone numbers of old boyfriends and the faces of people she had known in college but not seen in years and the deadlines for the three pieces she had been working on … |
| 12 | She had been working to gain the Pony Rider badge , but there was no riding school in the village , and even if there had been her daddy could n't have afforded fees for riding lessons , because the move from the old house to Wyching had cost a lot of money . |
| 13 | She had been working full time in a local factory for the past 8 years and usually enjoyed good relationships with her friends . |
| 14 | Edith Thomas was married at seventeen : she had been working as a barmaid at the Miner 's Arms and she was married from there . |
| 15 | She had been working since seven in the morning . |
| 16 | She had been working every day for over a month , and had not received a penny for her labour . |
| 17 | She had been working for , and fighting with , Patrick Kelly for years . |
| 18 | Then , the following week , the essay on Jane Eyre she had been working on for her English class disappeared from her desk . |
| 19 | She had been working in Poole as a trading standards officer and has moved to London to earn more money to pay for the venture . |
| 20 | But she had been working er er as a |
| 21 | She looked at the layout she had been working on . |
| 22 | She had been so immersed in her anger and indignation that she had been working on automatic pilot herself . |
| 23 | ‘ He said he 'd see you today , ’ Dana said , perching on the edge of Claudia 's desk , scattering the designs she had been working on , much to her annoyance . |
| 24 | Two minutes later she was tapping on his office door , clutching to her bosom the file of notes and sketches that she had been working on with such enthusiasm all week . |
| 25 | She resisted adding that she had been working overtime on his designs . |
| 26 | Maeve sat crouched over a table using a pool of light from a huge candelabra to stab furiously with her needle at a piece of embroidery she had been working on for years . |
| 27 | In her haste to get away , she must have bundled up the documents and ledgers that she had been working on and brought them back with her . |
| 28 | She had been working with IMP for just under a year now and had managed to contribute significantly to their joint effort , so she did n't feel quite as inadequate as she had when she first joined them . |
| 29 | ‘ Do n't you know what time — ’ she began , but already , somehow , he had moved past her into the dimly lit office and was standing confidently at her drawing-board , casually eyeing the plan that she had been working on . |
| 30 | Alice was supposed to help but she always woke up too late because she had been working for her exam ; Emmie had to shake her for nearly five minutes before she came up , moaning , out of a deep well of sleep . |