Example sentences of "[verb] been work [prep] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It becomes clear after one has been working at something for several weeks , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that one is not going to achieve what one had hoped for . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ She 'd been working on them for quite a while . |
| 4 | He must have been working on it in January 1948 at the latest , since the book was sent to the printers in the second week of February . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | He had been working on it for more than ten years . |
| 7 | This bloke , you know , had been working on it for fifty years nonstop and |
| 8 | Mr Davidson 's father , Robert Snr , said Mrs Holmes had been working for him for the last eight years . |
| 9 | And we and then we had been working for him for about ten or eleven years on this contract that he had for us . |
| 10 | Roy had been working for him since three weeks after his wedding , and he hated it . |
| 11 | I 've been working with him since ‘ Expecting To Fly ’ in 1968 . ’ |
| 12 | I 've been working with you for weeks . |
| 13 | I 've been working towards it from the start . |
| 14 | Like the grave-diggers in Hamlet , they speculated on life : ‘ We 've been working on it for 25 years and we still have n't got round . |
| 15 | I 've got three people working on it right now and they 've been working on it for three years . |
| 16 | I 've been working on it for most of the week , so do n't make me mess it up . |
| 17 | Wew 've been working on it for a long time , polticals issues are nothing to do with us , we 're a commercial company |
| 18 | And they quote epistles of St. Paul so difficult that the theologians , who have been working on them for two thousand years , have not got to the bottom of them . |
| 19 | Well obviously the sad reality of the thing does n't come home to , to our countrymen and a man comes up last week and tells me that he 's been paid off by the Daily Record he 's been working for them for thirty five years and he asked what how much pension will he have and says that he 's getting four years pension . |
| 20 | He 's been working for it for years . |