Example sentences of "[been] working for [art] " in BNC.

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1 He sighed tiredly , as though he had been working for a full day with stone and timber , and tried to listen to James Menzies , who was well away , drinking whisky with Allan and simmering with the news from the west , where the lists had been torn down from the church doors at Fortingall and Kenmore , and from Blair Atholl : the Duke 's factor had had to meet a crowd of more than a thousand and the Duke had signed a paper swearing not to impose the Act .
2 Owen had been working for a consulting company in Washington before deciding to devote himself to the contras , sitting at North 's feet ; despite his deep immersion in murky affairs , he still took a wide-eyed view of the world in which he operated .
3 ‘ I have been working for a moment like this for nine years and finally it has arrived .
4 In the biggest-ever inquiry of its kind , 30 police officers have been working for a year , taking 1,500 statements from youngsters .
5 San Francisco self-funded start-up Metron Technology has been working for a year and a half to develop some innovative , object-oriented , automated testing and performance debugging software for developing multi-processor and distributed Unix applications .
6 ‘ He 's a projects co-ordinator ; been working for a big building company for years .
7 Many people find that they return to the same company over and over again , or take up a permanent job offer at a place they have been working for a while .
8 ‘ Nutrition , ’ John said , after he had been working for a short time .
9 I 've been working for a company that constructs oil rigs and my job involved a lot of moving around . ’
10 I have been working for a moment like this for nine years and finally it has arrived .
11 Has he been working for a long time ?
12 With sufficient manipulation of the rota , it would be possible to arrange for the work-force to have been working for the same number of hours at different times of the day — condition ( 2 ) .
13 Mr Wilbraham , who is only 34 , had been working for the family shipping and engineering business until it was sold in 1987 .
14 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 .
15 I had been working for the Countess as a personal assistant since she married the Earl in 1976 .
16 With the exception of ‘ Incident on 42nd Street ’ ( 1988 ) , the diptych owned by Metropolitan Museum and omitted for budgetary reasons , the exhibition features all of the themes which the artist has explored and culminates with a selection of canvases of Coney Island , where Jacklin has been working for the last eighteen months .
17 The Tree has some pretty weird ideas about religion ; he might just swallow the idea he 's been working for the devil all this time .
18 Since she left school she 's been working for the Fish Co-operative in Stockholm Backs , not far from Riddle 's yard . ’
19 you work for erm Law Centre , erm , how long have you been working for the Law Centre ?
20 Been working for the Law Centre for three and a half years .
21 Mari Marcel Thekaekare has been working for the last seven years on a project she and her husband started , working with tribal people in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu .
22 Other European countries said that the new British Government would be positive and co-operative and would put forward proposals for bringing about the completion of the European Community , for which they had been working for the past 40 years .
23 Well everybody that was working for him had always worked in the quarries all their life , and they er they just been working for the slater company before the quarry shut down .
24 He had been working for the Cyrenians at an annex to the Simon House Hostel for the Homeless in Rectory Road Oxford .
25 During the time I have been working for the playgroup I have come into contact with about 200 children .
26 No but I mean , I do n't mean wh I do n't mean where he 's been working for the corporation , I mean before when he 's had these various jobs and they 've finished and he 's had , you know , the job 's finished and they 've had to go somewhere .
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