Example sentences of "they [verb] be work [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's some depth they 've been working at , ’ he said . |
| 2 | N nowadays I hear erm or the lads who have been they go out They 've been working with contractor and they say how different it is when your mother was alive , everybody who came here they they used to join us for their dinner . |
| 3 | I 've got three people working on it right now and they 've been working on it for three years . |
| 4 | They 've been working on farms , it seems . ’ |
| 5 | The students are coming to the end of their additional assessments now : they 've been working on their projects since December . |
| 6 | So they 've been working on modifications and this year , oh we will we 'll put the modifications right and then come back with another sales pitch |
| 7 | They 've been working on Sarah 's today . |
| 8 | For the past 4 days , they 've been working around the clock and through the night . |
| 9 | They had been working about a mile along a blind underground roadway , ending at what is due to be a new coal face , when the roof fell in 500 yards behind them . |
| 10 | Throughout the trial the brothers had maintained that they had been working as agents for the British Government in Dublin . |
| 11 | Other European countries said that the new British Government would be positive and co-operative and would put forward proposals for bringing about the completion of the European Community , for which they had been working for the past 40 years . |
| 12 | If they had been working on fruit trees they 'd come in much higher . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Is there anything you can tell me about the two young women who died after they had been working in this house , Theresa Nolan and Diana Travers ? ’ |
| 15 | Writing the software was somewhat tedious , but having to work at this level did help the designers to get away from preconceptions about interaction which they might have had if they had been working within the input/output facilities provided by a conventional mini or mainframe operating system ( for example , that it needs a RETURN to terminate user input or that the operating system can properly handle the echoing of characters to the terminal ) . |
| 16 | Whether they had been worked at some preceding date is a matter of no little conjecture but is unlikely and it seems that the miners from Keswick started there in 1599 . |
| 17 | There they have been working with individual patients who , for one reason or another , spend most of their lives sitting down — some of them in wheelchairs , unable to walk at all . |
| 18 | Many people find that they return to the same company over and over again , or take up a permanent job offer at a place they have been working for a while . |
| 19 | They have been working on their passing and set-piece play after two poor displays in the Premier League and the Coca Cola Cup . |
| 20 | ‘ They have been working on the driving maul yet it 's not something they have been renowned for in the past . ’ |
| 21 | They have been working in small groups to show the lives of a small rural town as yet unconnected to the railway . |