Example sentences of "[pers pn] had been working on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think what was different in my approach , and it partly goes back to my background , is that firstly I had been working on educational planning , and that secondly I come from a background of market research . |
| 2 | I think , because I had been working on Armchair Theatre , I was used to a certain style of drama , so when I saw the first Doctor Who script my first reaction was , after the first half hour , all we were left with was a lot of hairy-chested cavemen jumping around , grunting and going ‘ Ug ’ . |
| 3 | Now although I am a born sceptic , suddenly being brought face to face with a seemingly identical facsimile of what I had been working on did make me pause for a few moments ! |
| 4 | She had been so immersed in her anger and indignation that she had been working on automatic pilot herself . |
| 5 | She had been working on them ever since she had got home , reading and re-reading the articles , but there was still no clue to unravel the mystery . |
| 6 | We had been working on ideas of time and speed . |
| 7 | If they had been working on fruit trees they 'd come in much higher . |
| 8 | Mr Siddle , of Hesleden Avenue , Acklam , Middlesbrough , said they had been working on the operation the previous day and the pipe kept jamming when attempts were made to slot it into place . |
| 9 | A site has yet to be secured — although the Mountain View , California-based company said it had been working on the plans for some 18 months — and a choice will be announced within 60 days , according to Sun 's chief financial officer , Kevin Melia . |
| 10 | He had been working on it ever since the end of the war , and showing it in whole or in part to his friends . |
| 11 | But he had been working on that first novel for at least ten years , ever since I 've known him . |
| 12 | ACSS was set up by himself and interested friends five years before and he had been working on it since . |
| 13 | He had been working on it for more than ten years . |
| 14 | A zoologist by training , he had been working on specimens collected by the Challenger Expedition . |
| 15 | After all , he had been working on the theory for twenty years , and did not want to see himself scooped by an outsider . |
| 16 | When Robert Burrows first became a Christian he had been working on a banana plantation , but some time after his conversion a Salvationist family gave him work on their dairy farm . |
| 17 | His ankle bone had been badly grazed a week before by a metal panel that he had been working on which had slipped from his grasp . |
| 18 | He had been working on a new series for BBC Radio 2 which is due to be broadcast next spring . |
| 19 | Local people said he had been working on the site for two years and was very popular with them . |
| 20 | He was surprised all the same ; he had been working on a case which , while not exactly undercover , was one demanding some secrecy . |