Example sentences of "they have [been] work " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's some depth they 've been working at , ’ he said . |
| 2 | I 've got three people working on it right now and they 've been working on it for three years . |
| 3 | The sales force is a problem they 've been working on for awhile and could be in a position to snap off in a few months . |
| 4 | That 's why the windows of the houses are so small — so that they do n't have to see where they 've been working all day long . |
| 5 | They 've been working on farms , it seems . ’ |
| 6 | They can be sacked If it 's less than two years they 've been working , they can be sacked at a weeks notice or whatever it is . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The students are coming to the end of their additional assessments now : they 've been working on their projects since December . |
| 9 | They 've been working very hard , in some cases long hours I think it 's right because this is a similar discussion we had by Public Protection Committee about a report and the main thing about the report is to find ways in which this could be avoided and that we could take such action as necessary and obviously some matters to avoid such a happening again but having said that other parts of West Sussex have always tended to be erm when you get excess rain erm you tend to get flooded in on the train many times some houses have got boats down the bottom of their garden and it 's not just now it 's been flooded , but it has been flooded in more recent times and that 's probably something we should be looking at . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | Mike says that they 've been working hard to organise the trip — and is not bothered about the risk of visiting the country . |
| 12 | For the past 4 days , they 've been working around the clock and through the night . |
| 13 | They 've been working on Sarah 's today . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Throughout the trial the brothers had maintained that they had been working as agents for the British Government in Dublin . |
| 16 | Now there is nothing to prevent plural continuation here ( e.g. They had been working hard for hours ) , but the incidence of such continuations was less than 5% , and continuations mostly were confined to singular references with individuals being in relatively stereotypical roles with respect to each other . |
| 17 | In a recent South African trial resulting from a rail accident , the drivers concerned denied responsibility on the grounds that they had been working compulsory 18-hour shifts . |
| 18 | They had been working together , and she had asked about the following day . |
| 19 | 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 ? ’ |
| 20 | They had been working all the evening , sewing Rosie 's wedding-dress , and it would be terribly unlucky if the bridegroom set eyes on it before the great day . |
| 21 | If they had been working on fruit trees they 'd come in much higher . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | They had been working night and day since his arrival in Bordeaux . |
| 25 | If they had been working logically , they would have built the new on to the old stopping here . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | They have been working successfully for years and apparently preclude the necessity of fertilisers . |
| 30 | They have been working on their passing and set-piece play after two poor displays in the Premier League and the Coca Cola Cup . |