Example sentences of "been working [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kalchu had been working them , tilling the land on the south-facing slope of Jimale , where wheat and bitter buckwheat are sown alternately . |
| 2 | When Dennis emerged I reclaimed my room , flopped out on the sheets impregnated with his distinctive odour and slept fitfully until just after ten , when a hot slice of sunlight which had been working its way across the bed reached my face . |
| 3 | When his wife arrives to sit quietly on the end of the bed I tell her I 've been working her husband very hard . |
| 4 | ‘ People like me , who 've worked their guts out to expand the business while the militant bastards have been working their guts out to destroy it . ’ |
| 5 | Over the last few months I have been working my way through the variation switches . |
| 6 | Iain Reamhar had been working his spoons to splinters , but Lady Campbell still found fault . |
| 7 | He 's been working his time man . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been working it out , Charlie . |
| 9 | Oh , I think I 'm wholly French , she said : I 've been working it out . |
| 10 | The significant change I think is in the balance of debt between fixed and variable rate , where we took a conscious decision and been working it through to take more advantage of the prospective and er decline , it was prospective earlier in the year er in selling interest rates and the continued low er short-term rates in the United States . |
| 11 | Me and Aunt Emily 's been working our fingers to the bone , waiting for him . ’ |
| 12 | Oh , yes , Taggy told me how you have been working your fingers to the bone . ’ |