Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] have been working [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In late August I was finishing my day at the heart clinic , where I had been working for several months , when I decided that it was time to go . |
| 2 | No but I mean , I do n't mean wh I do n't mean where he 's been working for the corporation , I mean before when he 's had these various jobs and they 've finished and he 's had , you know , the job 's finished and they 've had to go somewhere . |
| 3 | She said : ‘ All that has held us together for years is that I 've been working for you . |
| 4 | It was a freezing cold day and I 'd been sitting there in nothing but these dungarees that I 'd been working on the roof in . |
| 5 | Mind you in between that I 'd been working on the fa farm farm . |
| 6 | Ian Luder , head of Arthur Andersen 's executive and personal taxation services group , says that ‘ the more that I have been working on employee schemes , the more convinced I am that there is an impact ’ . |
| 7 | In the three years or so that I have been working at Joan Allen Electronics I have become acutely aware of battery problems , in particular from the many cases where detectors have been sent back for repair needlessly . |
| 8 | The bird has become very unfit , and the damaged wing is shorter than the other , so I 've been working on moving it in the way the bird would move it in flight , to stretch it . |
| 9 | It looks as if we 'll be able to buy the Stiebel-Stein mail-order business , so I 've been working on ways to raise the money . |
| 10 | It was good to know that all her veterinary training had come to her aid in spite of the fact that she had been working for two years with small animals only . |
| 11 | She had been so immersed in her anger and indignation that she had been working on automatic pilot herself . |
| 12 | Yes , I think that as David said one of the things that we 've been working at very hard in recent years in teacher training is to try to improve the quality and the content of reading courses generally , and then I think it is also necessary to draw attention to teachers of this problem of dyslexia . |
| 13 | Throughout the trial the brothers had maintained that they had been working as agents for the British Government in Dublin . |
| 14 | Rainow , Cheshire-based Eden says that it has been working with unnamed telecommunications operators and user groups on the design of the phone , and envisages both business customers and consumers being interested in the device . |
| 15 | King Jigme Singye Wangchuck speaking in New Delhi on his arrival in India on Sept. 9 for a four-day official visit , said that he did not consider a monarchy to be the best system of government and that he had been working towards the greater democratization of his country . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | Our latest information is that he 's been working as a waiter at a bar called Flamingo . ’ |
| 22 | Senior Midland area and I 've been working on a job in Coventry which is basically work er what I hope to get mainly out of this course is an increased level of personal confidence so I can overcome basic nervousness when speaking . |
| 23 | I mean , dammit all , Charles has been working for 40 years and I 've been working for 22 ’ ) . |
| 24 | What I want to cover now is a type of network that we study a lot in the computer architecture group and I 've been working with for years and years and years erm called the N tuple network . |
| 25 | It was a standing pose and I had been working at my canvas for a week , my problems were not nearly solved , and the painting still excited me . |
| 26 | I think that I am probably a bit sharper in the burst than over the long distance but during the two ‘ B ’ games I felt really sharp and I have been working on my speed and strength with the SRU fitness specialist , David McLean ’ . |
| 27 | If I 'd been working at home today I should have put on my old skirt and my old pullover , so as to have something comfortably rough and worn around me . |
| 28 | And over the years if you 've been working with the same partner |
| 29 | But surely to if you 've been working with your partner for a long time he 's gon na it anyway |
| 30 | ‘ For instance , if you 've been working towards getting a client somewhere to live and they get it and they come back to you and say ‘ Thanks ’ , that is simply amazing , ’ says Frances . |