Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been work in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been working in a factory , but I had to give that up because I could n't afford a nursery . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been working in a hotel since I left school — up until the flood that was . |
| 3 | I 've been working in watercolours for the last seven years , but this particular picture is quite experimental for me . |
| 4 | I 've been working in Sydney . |
| 5 | I 'm a geologist — that bit was true — and until recently I 've been working in Sydney . |
| 6 | I 've been working in our infirmary for quite a while now , that is , when I 'm not having my ordinary lessons . |
| 7 | There was a brief silence then Gerald spoke up : ‘ I 've seen the safe open several times since I 've been working in the business . |
| 8 | But mostly I 've been working in television . ’ |
| 9 | I 've been working in a male environment now for several years , and I 've got quite used to hearing my colleagues speculate about me and my private life ! |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been working in my surgery , perhaps we could talk there . ’ |
| 11 | I 've been working in Cleveland , US for 4 months now , and am amazed that I get more up to date information on the week 's activities than when I lived outside London ! |
| 12 | I 've been working in the sextry for four years and he 's been there all that time . |
| 13 | I 'm erm I 've been working in low cost housing , housing charities , for a very long time , with Shelter and various other charities like that , and I never cease to be amazed that the Conservative Group , here or nationally , are hostile to subsidies for council housing , because the subsidy which goes to owner-occupiers , through mortgage tax relief , is very much greater than the subsidy that goes to council housing and there 's nothing we as a Council can do about this , but I do hope that in due course we will get a fair system of subsidising houses for everybody , so that wealthy people on high incomes who are getting a big subsidy on their housing through their tax relief , erm are not getting more than people on low incomes living in council houses . |
| 14 | I 've been to work in a bicycle shop . ’ |
| 15 | As a graduate in art history I have been working in the commercial fine art market for several years and frankly I am tired of hearing how galleries make soul destroying demands on artists to become more commercial . |
| 16 | Now , now you 've been working in the area of AIDS for some time now , do you think that the message is getting through ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They wheeled him rapidly into Resus. , Kathleen snapping out instructions right , left and centre , but as they peeled back the blanket to examine him , even Kathleen after all the years she had been working in A and E was shocked at the extent of his injuries . |
| 19 | Er , we 've been working in Harlow for a couple of years now and as you may know , we as Paul said , finished the first phase of Three Hills which is the Ayletts Field scheme which provided sixty six properties for a low cost home ownership and two special needs properties and we 'll also be starting in the next couple of months er , on providing low cost home ownership in Church Langley erm it 's funded by yo , yourselves . |
| 20 | Is there anything you can tell me about the two young women who died after they had been working in this house , Theresa Nolan and Diana Travers ? ’ |
| 21 | They have been working in small groups to show the lives of a small rural town as yet unconnected to the railway . |
| 22 | Sometimes , when he has been working in the garden , he will come in and sit down , then out again and does a bit more . |
| 23 | He has been working in this vein since the late Sixties , when only hippies , greens and cranks thought it was important . |
| 24 | He 'd been working in the welded body section at the time . |
| 25 | Gavin Turk , who attracted notice for erecting , as his only contribution to his degree show at the Royal College of Art a year ago , a blue English Heritage plaque announcing that he had been working in his studio for two years , is having a first exhibition at an apartment in Docklands , opposite Canary Wharf ( 1–31 July ; by appointment only , call 071–274 0041 ) . |
| 26 | He had been working in San Francisco at the time , still learning his trade , revelling in the whole carefree Californian ethos , the sense of shackles dropping , of new horizons glimmering . |
| 27 | He had been working in a shop known as the coal bunker when the two assassins burst in , one carrying a shotgun . |
| 28 | Apparently he 's been working in Australia , on oil rigs , I believe . ’ |