Example sentences of "[pron] had been work for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It so happened that the firm I had been working for ( manufacturers of rubber-coats , ground-sheets , etc. ) had closed down the Glasgow Office and factory , and I was without work . |
| 2 | I had been working for the Countess as a personal assistant since she married the Earl in 1976 . |
| 3 | In late August I was finishing my day at the heart clinic , where I had been working for several months , when I decided that it was time to go . |
| 4 | I had been working for more than an hour and my wrists ached from the continuous chopping , but I was filled with an immense exhilaration . |
| 5 | She had been working for , and fighting with , Patrick Kelly for years . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was good to know that all her veterinary training had come to her aid in spite of the fact that she had been working for two years with small animals only . |
| 8 | And we and then we had been working for him for about ten or eleven years on this contract that he had for us . |
| 9 | Other European countries said that the new British Government would be positive and co-operative and would put forward proposals for bringing about the completion of the European Community , for which they had been working for the past 40 years . |
| 10 | He sighed tiredly , as though he had been working for a full day with stone and timber , and tried to listen to James Menzies , who was well away , drinking whisky with Allan and simmering with the news from the west , where the lists had been torn down from the church doors at Fortingall and Kenmore , and from Blair Atholl : the Duke 's factor had had to meet a crowd of more than a thousand and the Duke had signed a paper swearing not to impose the Act . |
| 11 | Of course he had been working for Hut 6 from the day of his arrival at Bletchley and his duties soon became important . |
| 12 | The case of Kenneth Littlejohn had been prominent in the news during the year and they had the impression that he had been working for the Home Office . |
| 13 | If he had been working for three days and three nights then it was in the suit he was wearing now , and his shoes had mud on them , and Erlich did n't think Ruane would be impressed . |
| 14 | ‘ Nutrition , ’ John said , after he had been working for a short time . |
| 15 | He had been working for the Cyrenians at an annex to the Simon House Hostel for the Homeless in Rectory Road Oxford . |