Example sentences of "had been working [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was clad in the same white coveralls as the half-dozen policemen who had been working over the room , like a coven of wraiths . |
| 2 | Mr Mowatt and Mr Pirrie had been working through the user directories , archiving files for retention , and deleting others as advised by users . |
| 3 | By chance Rose had spoken to the right person as Taylor had been working with a hydrogen diffusion cloud chamber which is potentially well suited for such a task . |
| 4 | ‘ Before the student demonstrations I had been working with a group of Latin American intellectuals in Paris , helping bring out a magazine . |
| 5 | Suzannah Reddan had been working at a pub in north-west London for six months when she disappeared in March 1988 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Tonight she 'd try to find out which , if any , of the other employees had been working at the club when Christine had been there . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He was surprised all the same ; he had been working on a case which , while not exactly undercover , was one demanding some secrecy . |
| 10 | Jeopardy and Amber had been working on a piece which they intended to perform when Mandru returned home . |
| 11 | She was convinced now that her husband had been working on a book about The Hell Fire Club and … |
| 12 | Before he answered it she slipped in a question about the length of time Shildon had been working on the assignment . |
| 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 | Victim one : Liverpool-born theatre director and choreographer Peter Walker , who had been working on the hit musical , City of Angels , was found strangled , his naked body trussed up on his bed at his home in Battersea , on March 8 . |
| 15 | Thinking fatigue had got the better of his tired mind , Jack Hayden did not worry unduly until the following Monday morning when a porter who had been working on the station Platform came to the mess room and saw a strange figure looking at Mr Hayden . |
| 16 | during the break , after we had done this segment of the film and had gone into the canteen for lunch , all the people who had been working on the film were whistling the song . |
| 17 | After all , he had been working on the theory for twenty years , and did not want to see himself scooped by an outsider . |
| 18 | He had been reading the notes of Wittgenstein , he said , who before his death had been working on the relation between the private , sensuous experience of colour and the universal language of colour words with which we appear to be able to communicate it . |
| 19 | Though it did not appear until relatively late in his life , Locke had been working on the Essay since about 1660 . |
| 20 | His father had been working on the farm and he had been sitting at the door of the hut . |
| 21 | Local people said he had been working on the site for two years and was very popular with them . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I had been working for the Countess as a personal assistant since she married the Earl in 1976 . |
| 24 | Mr Wilbraham , who is only 34 , had been working for the family shipping and engineering business until it was sold in 1987 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Val had four children aged between seventeen and six , and had been working as a childminder at home to supplement the family income . |
| 27 | Mr Telford , who took redundancy from the pit in 1988 and had been working as a mining contractor at Rossington , near Doncaster , allegedly threatened a man with the gun to gain entry . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , Liddell had been working as a field missionary in war-torn Siaochang . |
| 29 | The eldest daughter , Elizabeth McGuire , had been working as a farm servant ( See Chapter 6 ) . |
| 30 | Edith Thomas was married at seventeen : she had been working as a barmaid at the Miner 's Arms and she was married from there . |