Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] been working [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd been working solidly for eighteen months , ’ she pointed out . |
| 2 | Then , the following week , the essay on Jane Eyre she had been working on for her English class disappeared from her desk . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Now there is nothing to prevent plural continuation here ( e.g. They had been working hard for hours ) , but the incidence of such continuations was less than 5% , and continuations mostly were confined to singular references with individuals being in relatively stereotypical roles with respect to each other . |
| 5 | And yes , he 'd been working there for several days . |
| 6 | Terry had written out a very detailed plan for a farm-school project for juvenile offenders that he had been working on for almost two years . |