Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [verb] be [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos me and my brother had been working on wagon again . |
| 2 | She was convinced now that her husband had been working on a book about The Hell Fire Club and … |
| 3 | His eyes had been feeding on darkness and projections for too long , and now , presented with solid reality , they were befuddled . |
| 4 | His mind had been working on ideas for an operation against Pearl Harbor and when the United States Pacific fleet sailed to Hawaii on April 2 , 1940 for manoeuvres Yamamoto followed their progress closely . |
| 5 | His father had been working on the farm and he had been sitting at the door of the hut . |
| 6 | He had been reading the notes of Wittgenstein , he said , who before his death had been working on the relation between the private , sensuous experience of colour and the universal language of colour words with which we appear to be able to communicate it . |
| 7 | Your boy 's been working on it . |