Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] been work " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following his death reports emerged that Falcone had been working closely with Judge Antonio di Pietro on the investigations into corruption in Milan 's local government [ see below ] . |
| 2 | The murder had been ordered by Hendrique , for whom Kyle had been working during the last five years . |
| 3 | Dustin had been working at his antique desk all morning on contact sheets of his wedding pictures , taken almost a year before , trying to pick out the ones to develop . |
| 4 | But she said Lilian had been working at the old people 's home just down the road . |
| 5 | In 1911 Wren had been working in India for less than eight years . |
| 6 | Apparently Mr. Dolman had been working at The Albion Hotel , fell from a very tall ladder and was killed . |
| 7 | Erm yes erm well at the ti at first I could only move my head , but when I went on that holiday , St Giles had been working on me with nerve machines and muscle machines |
| 8 | Eva had been working as his second for a number of years . |
| 9 | The usher explained that Eva had been working in Africa and was now principal of an international college . |
| 10 | Meanwhile sister-in-law Kim had been working hard too and in 12 months she lost 5st ( 32kg ) , plus 12½ins ( 32cm ) from her bust , 11 ins ( 28 cm ) from her waist , 14ins ( 36cm ) from her hips and 10½ins ( 26cm ) from each thigh ! |
| 11 | Hal and Joy had been working at Applecross Cafe for over 10 years . |
| 12 | Graham had been working on his yacht , the Sea Eagle , during a break on a long sailing trip , when he suffered an electric shock . |
| 13 | Roy had been working for him since three weeks after his wedding , and he hated it . |
| 14 | They ended up laughing about that , but it was the uneasy laughter of desperation and displacement , and all they could do after that was finish the whisky and have the joint Rory had been working on , and it was almost a relief when Fergus was sick as a dog out of the window , hanging out barfing onto the slates and into the guttering while Rory tried to clean the plaster off the top bunk and stowed the guns out of harm 's way . |
| 15 | Lucy Lane had been working in his team for three years but he felt that he knew her only a little better than he had done after her first month . |
| 16 | William Day had been working late at a nearby farm . |
| 17 | It was a week after the hurricane , and Stephen had been working non-stop , salvaging coral-stone and tiles from the debris . |
| 18 | Mr Eaton and colleague Ron Siddle had been working on sea fasteners , fixed to the barge to stop the module moving . |
| 19 | Owen had been working for a consulting company in Washington before deciding to devote himself to the contras , sitting at North 's feet ; despite his deep immersion in murky affairs , he still took a wide-eyed view of the world in which he operated . |
| 20 | Long before Sartre developed his own form of Marxist-Hegelian history , Bachelard had been working in a critical relation to Hegelian historicism . |
| 21 | Kalchu had been working them , tilling the land on the south-facing slope of Jimale , where wheat and bitter buckwheat are sown alternately . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , Liddell had been working as a field missionary in war-torn Siaochang . |
| 23 | Eastern Creek was n't scorching hot and yet Kenny Roberts revealed the Dunlops had been working at their best in the blazing heat of qualifying . |
| 24 | Dr Kelleher had been working in close cooperation with Dr Laurent and there had been long consultations in the Pathology Lab . |
| 25 | She was a close friend of the Duchess of Portland and , when staying with her at Bulstrode in Buckinghamshire , December 1753 , reported that Philip Miller had been working in the library and , On another occasion when they met , she commented on his reticence . |
| 26 | Henderson had been working for British secret services for 20 years , it was revealed last night . |
| 27 | Mr Brumhill had been working late at the shop on Wellingborough Road , something he often did . |
| 28 | Mr Brumhill had been working late at the shop on Wellingborough Road , something he often did . |
| 29 | Though it did not appear until relatively late in his life , Locke had been working on the Essay since about 1660 . |
| 30 | Topaz had dreaded the moment since she first realized what Timothy had been working up to . |