Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] been work [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the employee has been working for you for up to eight weeks and does not have a linking letter or a Leaver 's statement , phone your Social Security office and ask if the start of the PIW you are dealing with links back to a claim to a Social Security benefit . |
| 2 | Dustin had been working at his antique desk all morning on contact sheets of his wedding pictures , taken almost a year before , trying to pick out the ones to develop . |
| 3 | When a [ makonde ] sculptor departs from the stereotype [ … $ this is nearly always because an element of doubt or defiance has been worked into it ; a madonna is given a demon to hold instead of the Christ Child ; a priest is represented with the feet of a wild animal , a pietà becomes a study not of sorrow but of revenge , with the mother raising a spear over the body of her dead son . |
| 4 | Erm yes erm well at the ti at first I could only move my head , but when I went on that holiday , St Giles had been working on me with nerve machines and muscle machines |
| 5 | Eva had been working as his second for a number of years . |
| 6 | Throughout his life several elements had been working within him : a deep knowledge and appreciation of the countryside , a sharp mind and a willingness to learn . |
| 7 | Your boy 's been working on it . |
| 8 | For the past three months , camera crews have been working near her Cotswold home on a television adaptation of her book The Rector 's Wife . |
| 9 | For the past decade , the teachers at Gillingham have been working towards something which looks very much like the national curriculum , to ensure a smooth transfer to the new system . |
| 10 | Sarat has been working in his father 's fields but in August was due to move to a clerical post in Cuttack . |
| 11 | Graham had been working on his yacht , the Sea Eagle , during a break on a long sailing trip , when he suffered an electric shock . |
| 12 | Roy had been working for him since three weeks after his wedding , and he hated it . |
| 13 | Lucy Lane had been working in his team for three years but he felt that he knew her only a little better than he had done after her first month . |
| 14 | Wew 've been working on it for a long time , polticals issues are nothing to do with us , we 're a commercial company |
| 15 | ‘ You mean all this time Kerry 's been working against you ? ’ |
| 16 | This means that the biceps have been worked through their complete range of movement , aiding complete development . |
| 17 | Eastern Creek was n't scorching hot and yet Kenny Roberts revealed the Dunlops had been working at their best in the blazing heat of qualifying . |
| 18 | Maybe Vinnie has been working on his own . |
| 19 | A little company in Golden , Colorado has been working on its own version of Unix for the last year and half , this one called Usix . |
| 20 | ‘ Arazi has been working like his old self and I hope he can go back to America for the Breeders Cup and win like he did last year . ’ |
| 21 | Here he dismounted and prayed that whatever spirit had been working within him would continue to work , that this furious feeling of benevolence to all mind — if only a beggar would pass by and he could give him a shilling ! — would not abate , that he ‘ could truly and today start a new life , O Lord , for Thy sake and in Thy name ’ . |
| 22 | Mr Davidson 's father , Robert Snr , said Mrs Holmes had been working for him for the last eight years . |