Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] be working " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I 've heard so many stories about him and all the good he did , and my dad was delighted when he found I was working with Sarah because she was his granddaughter . ’
2 erm to make the most of the holiday , and then found she was working in the sh in the middle .
3 I mean I imagined he was working in Earl 's Court , you know , pulling pints of Fosters and er
4 ‘ He flew back today and heard I was working for you , so he — ’
5 I felt I was working my way up the ladder , and my next player was Jerry Heard , who was a real good player in the 1970s .
6 Once I had permission , the people knew I was working there and often took the responsibility of a guardian .
7 ( I have to say I was n't in the room with him thought I was working at the Daily Mail at the time . )
8 ‘ Capron said he knew you were working on the Mills case and that we must have discussed it together . ’
9 They knew you were working yesterday !
10 " I thought you were working , " I said .
11 Neither of us were attacked because of the Durances but because the local drug dealers knew I was making enquiries about trafficking and they thought you were working with me .
12 ‘ I thought you were working flat-out already ?
13 Yeah , cos I thought you were working afternoon borrowed his bike
14 A useful exchange of views always takes place and engenders an excellent team spirit , which proved its worth with the campaign for increased subscriptions when we all felt we were working towards the same goal and had a common purpose .
15 From the first day , I knew we were working with class .
16 They felt they were working hard enough to make their hearts stronger and at the same time they were stretching their bodies sufficiently to reach their deeper muscles .
17 Providers felt they were working against each other to capture trainees to ensure their own survival .
18 But they knew they were working for him , and each of them was hoping that if the jewel were found it would be he who would have found it .
19 I thought they were working on train ?
20 He was gazing at the woman with the strange , unblinking stare which meant he was working something out .
21 Coleman felt he was working himself up quite convincingly .
22 the only battleship I know about is the girl friend go away for about three months at a time and you 'd say of where 's Norman , oh he 's er working and then we all knew he 's working for a he 'd put them in the computer systems right the way throughout the ships
23 " To the rocks ? " murmured Toby , and I thought it 's working .
24 I thought he was working there , but when I opened the door I saw Neil sitting in the driver 's seat .
25 Now I think what te , what happened there was we er , we drifted away from setting down sc , er , er , scripts to finding good useful key words and phrases out of the paper that we could then fit into the script , and as it had gone that way , I realised it was working , and did n't see any point in trying to get it back to the way it was originally going , because it was going fine .
26 ‘ When I said I was working with Michael Crawford , they said he would be a monster , eat me for breakfast , have me on toast and upstage me totally .
27 Er , there 's just one thing I wanted to ask , you ken how you said you were working in Johnny Walkers ,
28 She said she 's working till six , and then going to aerobics
29 When we brought this to Lowe 's attention they said they were working on the problem .
30 On the other hand , for women not wanting a permanent job was the single most important reason given , and a considerably smaller share said they were working on a temporary basis because permanent work was not available .
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