Example sentences of "[pron] have been working " in BNC.

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1 For more weeks than I care to remember I have been working on a Panorama programme designed to look at the future of the Tory Party , even beyond Thatcherism .
2 Although I have n't been making records for the last six years , I have been working behind the scenes at Artists Against Apartheid , and me the Mandela concert last month , seeing that speech go out live on the BBC to all those people , was a culmination of all that work .
3 But I have been working on some things especially for Pierantozzi , and hopefully I will get a chance to try them out . ’
4 She wrote ‘ During the past two years I have been working ( with Mr Wilmott 's co-operation ) towards the publication of a Flora of the ‘ Outer Islands ’ , concerning which there is a considerable scattered literature , but no comprehensive publication .
5 Since giving up work to start my family , I have been working on two books — a novel and a cookery book related to my former job ( I was a home economist ) .
6 Over the past four years , since True Confessions , I have been working more on straight drama .
7 I think that I am probably a bit sharper in the burst than over the long distance but during the two ‘ B ’ games I felt really sharp and I have been working on my speed and strength with the SRU fitness specialist , David McLean ’ .
8 ‘ I have discovered that the black people I have been working with in the inner cities proposed me for the award .
9 Ian Luder , head of Arthur Andersen 's executive and personal taxation services group , says that ‘ the more that I have been working on employee schemes , the more convinced I am that there is an impact ’ .
10 I have been working for a moment like this for nine years and finally it has arrived .
11 ‘ Now I have been working hard on my fitness and my ankle has improved . ’
12 Fortunately for me , some of my friends and relations like something a bit more unusual , so I have been working out some new ideas for this year for those ‘ champagne ’ garments on a ‘ lemonade ’ income .
13 Over the last few months I have been working my way through the variation switches .
14 As a graduate in art history I have been working in the commercial fine art market for several years and frankly I am tired of hearing how galleries make soul destroying demands on artists to become more commercial .
15 In France , where I have been working for two years , the government understands the need for cultural things .
16 I have been working on this book about the Prince of Palatine for over 25 years ; I 'll never finish it , but who cares , it 's interesting , especially since I can read seventeenth-century German which very few people can . ’
17 Since 1974 , I have been working on combining general relativity and quantum mechanics into a consistent theory .
18 Since 1988 I have been working with Oxford and Jericho Against the Poll Tax and am now participating in a scheme , devised by Oxford Quakers and the Green Party , to pay the tax as a group , according to one 's means : ie. a local income tax .
19 In the three years or so that I have been working at Joan Allen Electronics I have become acutely aware of battery problems , in particular from the many cases where detectors have been sent back for repair needlessly .
20 ‘ Roman and I have been working so hard on this business fair , he 's promised to take me away with him when it 's over ! ’
21 But you must understand — I have been working under the most severe restraints . ’
22 ‘ I have n't spoken more than half a dozen words to your wife in the whole time you and I have been working together , ’ protested Matt .
23 I have made many friends since I have been working .
24 So far I have been working " backwards ' from the specific deictic terms and elements of the poem to contextual possibilities and other pragmatic considerations .
25 I have been working at the playgroup in Middleton St George for about seven years now , and I 've been the leader for about two .
26 During the time I have been working for the playgroup I have come into contact with about 200 children .
27 I have been working for 19 months and was on the dole for five years before that , ’ he said .
28 ‘ But I have been working away ever since and they have not done anything more to me .
29 I have been working for a moment like this for nine years and finally it has arrived .
30 The CEN Technical Committees 116 and 117 which have been working on the creation of European Standards for bituminous sheeting and single-ply membranes have recently been disbanded to be replaced by a new Technical Committee , CEN TC 254 , which will prepare European Standards on waterproofing sheeting used in building and civil engineering works .
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