Example sentences of "he [verb] [be] work [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Human Touch is the album he has been working on for several years and Lucky Town a set of songs he quickly wrote and recorded at home recently , and though the tone of the two records does n't differ that much , the second set of songs are far better . |
| 2 | He has been working well recently and looks sure to take all the beating in an uncompetitive contest . |
| 3 | He looks wonderful ; prison has fattened him and his cheeks are pink and shiny , as though he has been working out of doors . |
| 4 | He has been working very long hours setting up in business here in er in this area er he gets home late at night and I 'm afraid to say that over the last few months he 's been nagged continuously by his girlfriend who wants him to try and sort out financial arrangements because the relationship between the two of them 's not been very good . |
| 5 | He used to be a crane driver dear for , yeah he used and I 've got to , one of me sons now is a foreman for , well they 're not now it 's , it 's sort of amal amalgamated with another firm now I think , but he does , he does erm , he 's a foreman like now , he used to be a truck , crane driver and my , the very night that my hubby died on the following Monday he would of been working in Harlow , he got a new crane to take over in Harlow and he 'd been working away from home for weeks and months of the year always away , coming home weekends and I used to have to cook and do his washing and pack him up for going off again Monday morning early , but he never was near home working then , and as I say the night before he went he was , he was gon na work on the Monday to in Old , to Harlow down where the new er place was for and it unfortunately cos he went . |
| 6 | He looked up from the papers he 'd been working on and said blandly , ‘ Ah , Luce … |
| 7 | And yes , he 'd been working there for several days . |
| 8 | He 'd been working too hard to spend time with women , and the courting of his wife had been very proper and unexciting . |
| 9 | He 'd been working too hard in college , and even harder since he 'd been running the farm . |
| 10 | He 'd been working hard lately . |
| 11 | ‘ He had been working well with Pat 's Jester at home and both have been going extremely well . ’ |
| 12 | Eventually the pair connected , and Knuckles presented Owens with a track he had been working on with Japanese musician Satoshi Tomii . |
| 13 | However , when the production shifted back to Los Angeles , the day before shooting started , he lost the kind of gravelly voice he had been working on . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Then she convinced him he was to say no more about leaving and get back to the story he had been working on when the row blew up . |
| 16 | On his desk was a map of the Fairfax property which he had been working on when he had the telephone call from the owner telling him that he was cancelling all the arrangements . |
| 17 | Mr Michael Fallon , who is also schools minister , said it was an historic change which he had been working on with Catholic bishops since November . |
| 18 | If he had been working out of the Embassy in Washington , if he was being shunted round the F.B.I . |
| 19 | Previously he had been working as Senior Designer with Firth Carpets with whom he had gained eleven years experience . |
| 20 | He realized that he was tired and that he had been working too long , word upon word , hour after hour , mostly in a poor light , always in bitter cold . |
| 21 | After all , he 's been working here for centuries , and I bet no one 's ever heard him say ‘ Cut , that 's a wrap ’ , before . ’ |
| 22 | Well but I mean , Brian was saying himself you know he ca n't remember at least he 's says he 's been working down London when he has n't been earning a hundred pound a day you know , it 's something , we just accepted it , he said over the years I 've been earning a hundred pound a day he says , and that was it you know yo yo just do . |
| 23 | ‘ As I 've said , he 's been working off and on on the house as a favour . |