Example sentences of "[pers pn] have be work [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd been working solidly for eighteen months , ’ she pointed out . |
| 2 | ‘ Yeah , it 's a collection of tunes that I 've been working on for a while . |
| 3 | I 've been working here for fourteen years but I ca n't buy postage stamps without his say-so . |
| 4 | I 've been working here for seven years now and I really enjoy my job . |
| 5 | I 've been working abroad for the last twenty years , I 've just come back to the U K and my family 's all died , and I do n't know anybody , and I 'm going to start off working here . |
| 6 | Then , the following week , the essay on Jane Eyre she had been working on for her English class disappeared from her desk . |
| 7 | Maeve sat crouched over a table using a pool of light from a huge candelabra to stab furiously with her needle at a piece of embroidery she had been working on for years . |
| 8 | Erm the housing need figure we 've been working on for Greater York has been nine thousand seven hundred and that 's been based on the parishes within the Greater York study area . |
| 9 | In the U K the improvement plans we 've been working on for the last two years have been very successfully implemented but they 've been overtaken by the U K recession . |
| 10 | ‘ I feel that we have been working together for much longer , ’ says Sandra , ‘ because even when we had our own businesses we would ring each other up for advice . |
| 11 | We have been working together for the past three days . |
| 12 | The sales force is a problem they 've been working on for awhile and could be in a position to snap off in a few months . |
| 13 | Now there is nothing to prevent plural continuation here ( e.g. They had been working hard for hours ) , but the incidence of such continuations was less than 5% , and continuations mostly were confined to singular references with individuals being in relatively stereotypical roles with respect to each other . |
| 14 | They have been working successfully for years and apparently preclude the necessity of fertilisers . |
| 15 | Human Touch is the album he has been working on for several years and Lucky Town a set of songs he quickly wrote and recorded at home recently , and though the tone of the two records does n't differ that much , the second set of songs are far better . |
| 16 | And yes , he 'd been working there for several days . |
| 17 | Terry had written out a very detailed plan for a farm-school project for juvenile offenders that he had been working on for almost two years . |
| 18 | After all , he 's been working here for centuries , and I bet no one 's ever heard him say ‘ Cut , that 's a wrap ’ , before . ’ |