Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [adv] been work [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had recently been working on Orwell 's radio scripts in the BBC 's Written Archive Centre at Caversham , one of the most important archives for modern British history outside the Public Record Office , and here in this room in Sackville Street were books written by all the authors and broadcasters I had grown familiar with , who were working at the time George Orwell was broadcasting and before . |
| 2 | Although I have to confess I 've already been working on it . |
| 3 | ‘ The machine has a great potential for use at the centre and its restoration has been a project that we have all been working towards for some while . ’ |
| 4 | They 'd both been working for nearly two years , and all that time they had n't been paid a penny . |
| 5 | They had all been working at stone-gathering , keeping their pageant money out of sight for fear the constables mark them as robbers or miracle-workers . |
| 6 | George and Marie are very disappointed , especially as they have both been working around the clock since the expansion , managing the Brasserie and L'Auberge respectively , interviewing and training new staff ( labour turnover has been high at the Brasserie from the start and is now significantly higher at L'Auberge too ) and filling in whenever necessary at either establishment . |
| 7 | In fact , he has only been working as a professional for three years or so , and has had to learn his trade by trial and error . |
| 8 | He had a half-beard and he looked dirty , as if he had just been working with hammers and bricks and wood and chisels . |
| 9 | He brought with him his own group of masons , and a letter of introduction from Humphrey Lovell , the queen 's master mason , according to which he had previously been working for Sir Francis Knollys [ q.v. ] , probably at Caversham House , near Reading . |
| 10 | ‘ He 's only been working for Harry for a few weeks . |