Example sentences of "he had [be] work " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Not that he had been to work on a Sunday for several years , but that was how he remembered it . |
| 2 | He sighed tiredly , as though he had been working for a full day with stone and timber , and tried to listen to James Menzies , who was well away , drinking whisky with Allan and simmering with the news from the west , where the lists had been torn down from the church doors at Fortingall and Kenmore , and from Blair Atholl : the Duke 's factor had had to meet a crowd of more than a thousand and the Duke had signed a paper swearing not to impose the Act . |
| 3 | But in 1877 , the last text overseen by the novelist , ‘ as if spoken to himself ’ becomes ‘ as if meant for himself ’ , shifting and refining nuance while involving the change of a single word in Russian , and enabling the artist to get at last the effect he had been working towards . |
| 4 | He had been working on it ever since the end of the war , and showing it in whole or in part to his friends . |
| 5 | Being quite intuitive , I did notice there was a funny tension between Ken Pitt and David and I thought that probably what had happened was that David had not been satisfied performing ‘ When I Live My Dream ’ with the old backing tracks , as he had been working with Tony Visconti and had all these new tunes and productions and ways of doing things in his head . |
| 6 | But he had been working on that first novel for at least ten years , ever since I 've known him . |
| 7 | Eventually the pair connected , and Knuckles presented Owens with a track he had been working on with Japanese musician Satoshi Tomii . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | At this time , Miller told Blair that he had been working with Nathanael St André , ‘ the famous anatomist ’ , examining structures of plants and he believed that together they would make some curious discoveries . |
| 10 | Of course he had been working for Hut 6 from the day of his arrival at Bletchley and his duties soon became important . |
| 11 | William Tidbury stated that on 11 December he had been working until late at a local farm ( this had already been borne out by the farmer ) . |
| 12 | ACSS was set up by himself and interested friends five years before and he had been working on it since . |
| 13 | All this time he had been working like a madman , limping about overseeing the repairs and helping in spite of his own wounds wherever his strength was needed . |
| 14 | The strain of trying to do everything himself was taking a toll ; after one almost incoherent letter he explained that he had been working from 8 a.m. until midnight , had not eaten and so ‘ was thoroughly depressed and vague ’ . |
| 15 | He had been working on it for more than ten years . |
| 16 | Tony had been unemployed for 9 months , after the roofing firm he had been working with for a year had gone into liquidation . |
| 17 | He had been working since the 1820s on his theory that ‘ grand geometrical lines ’ had been laid out in ancient times across the country and that these were indicated by old boundaries and markers . |
| 18 | He had been working at tar Processing and the fumes had given him an unpleasant skin complaint . |
| 19 | A zoologist by training , he had been working on specimens collected by the Challenger Expedition . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The case of Kenneth Littlejohn had been prominent in the news during the year and they had the impression that he had been working for the Home Office . |
| 22 | ‘ Hank Stych ! ’ he hailed a startled Boyd , who had half risen from an easy chair , scattering the papers on which he had been working . |
| 23 | He had been working nightshifts at an Islington distillery , but NME was his second attempt at writing for a living . |
| 24 | There were gulls flying and calling , but I had not disturbed the main colony , and I thought that I would have heard if he had been working below the cliffs at the north-west point . |
| 25 | If he had been working for three days and three nights then it was in the suit he was wearing now , and his shoes had mud on them , and Erlich did n't think Ruane would be impressed . |
| 26 | If he had been working out of the Embassy in Washington , if he was being shunted round the F.B.I . |
| 27 | He had been working at the Council depot as an attendant when Joe offered him the job , and he had been very pleased to make the change . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | He had been working the river between Luxor and Aswan since he was 12 . |
| 30 | ‘ Thank you , General , ’ said the Doctor , returning from the quiet corner of the camp where he had been working . |