Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] have been work [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in 1877 , the last text overseen by the novelist , ‘ as if spoken to himself ’ becomes ‘ as if meant for himself ’ , shifting and refining nuance while involving the change of a single word in Russian , and enabling the artist to get at last the effect he had been working towards . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The person you 've been working with over the last couple of days . |
| 5 | It so happened that the firm I had been working for ( manufacturers of rubber-coats , ground-sheets , etc. ) had closed down the Glasgow Office and factory , and I was without work . |
| 6 | Devaluing activity , assimilating it in analogous models ( art , science , technology ) , design makes of itself models of its practice which deny design ( in the sense we have been working towards here ) both in process and in end . |
| 7 | ‘ That 's some depth they 've been working at , ’ he said . |
| 8 | Tony had been unemployed for 9 months , after the roofing firm he had been working with for a year had gone into liquidation . |
| 9 | When Robert Burrows first became a Christian he had been working on a banana plantation , but some time after his conversion a Salvationist family gave him work on their dairy farm . |
| 10 | Of course he had been working for Hut 6 from the day of his arrival at Bletchley and his duties soon became important . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Since she left school she 's been working for the Fish Co-operative in Stockholm Backs , not far from Riddle 's yard . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | During the time I have been working for the playgroup I have come into contact with about 200 children . |
| 15 | All this time he had been working like a madman , limping about overseeing the repairs and helping in spite of his own wounds wherever his strength was needed . |