Example sentences of "he [vb past] be work [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | this chap was here last week he bought this pine table up , got his key , and he 'd been working for three years in Norway |
| 2 | When this incident occurred he 'd been working on a project in Harlow in Essex setting up another system . |
| 3 | And anyway I walked past him and he went back and he was sh moaning at her so erm two of the old boys he 'd been working with said whatever 's all that about ? |
| 4 | He 'd been working in the welded body section at the time . |
| 5 | In 1969 Josef Frolik of the Czechoslovakian intelligence service defected to the CIA with his wife and proceeded to give some startling information about numerous British Labour Party politicians and trade union officials who he claimed were working for the KGB . |
| 6 | Not that he had been to work on a Sunday for several years , but that was how he remembered it . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He had been working on it ever since the end of the war , and showing it in whole or in part to his friends . |
| 10 | But he had been working on that first novel for at least ten years , ever since I 've known him . |
| 11 | ACSS was set up by himself and interested friends five years before and he had been working on it since . |
| 12 | He had been working on it for more than ten years . |
| 13 | A zoologist by training , he had been working on specimens collected by the Challenger Expedition . |
| 14 | After all , he had been working on the theory for twenty years , and did not want to see himself scooped by an outsider . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 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 | He had been working on a new series for BBC Radio 2 which is due to be broadcast next spring . |
| 18 | Local people said he had been working on the site for two years and was very popular with them . |
| 19 | He was surprised all the same ; he had been working on a case which , while not exactly undercover , was one demanding some secrecy . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Tony had been unemployed for 9 months , after the roofing firm he had been working with for a year had gone into liquidation . |
| 23 | He had been working with the police all along ! |
| 24 | He had been working at tar Processing and the fumes had given him an unpleasant skin complaint . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Ken , meanwhile , believed he had found a play that suited his temperament and talents better than most of the things on which he had been working to date . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Of course he had been working for Hut 6 from the day of his arrival at Bletchley and his duties soon became important . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |