Example sentences of "had been working on " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been working on it ever since the end of the war , and showing it in whole or in part to his friends . |
| 2 | during the break , after we had done this segment of the film and had gone into the canteen for lunch , all the people who had been working on the film were whistling the song . |
| 3 | Though it did not appear until relatively late in his life , Locke had been working on the Essay since about 1660 . |
| 4 | But he had been working on that first novel for at least ten years , ever since I 've known him . |
| 5 | ACSS was set up by himself and interested friends five years before and he had been working on it since . |
| 6 | I think what was different in my approach , and it partly goes back to my background , is that firstly I had been working on educational planning , and that secondly I come from a background of market research . |
| 7 | He had been working on it for more than ten years . |
| 8 | Both accounts demonstrate that , until Stanislav Ulam 's observation that X-rays could be used to propagate an instant fusion reaction , Teller had been working on a fundamentally impractical design . |
| 9 | A zoologist by training , he had been working on specimens collected by the Challenger Expedition . |
| 10 | The ex-London United cars which had been working on the Croydon — Mitcham route were now transferred to the Sutton route , to work alongside the J type cars ( 1s-16s ) , four of which were withdrawn and sent to Brixton Hill . |
| 11 | Graham had been working on his yacht , the Sea Eagle , during a break on a long sailing trip , when he suffered an electric shock . |
| 12 | Top stylist at the salon , Jeff Goodwin , had been working on a new idea called Le Flic and together with make-up artist Julie and a new wardrobe of clothes , successfully transformed Alice with these three beautiful styles . |
| 13 | Thinking fatigue had got the better of his tired mind , Jack Hayden did not worry unduly until the following Monday morning when a porter who had been working on the station Platform came to the mess room and saw a strange figure looking at Mr Hayden . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A site has yet to be secured — although the Mountain View , California-based company said it had been working on the plans for some 18 months — and a choice will be announced within 60 days , according to Sun 's chief financial officer , Kevin Melia . |
| 16 | A couple of scientists had been working on Edgeøya for most of the summer , and this young bear had appeared near the old trapper 's hut they were staying in ( which was near the beach where we had landed ) . |
| 17 | His colleague Gwyn Meirion-Jones , had been working on various building types beginning with peasant houses . |
| 18 | I think , because I had been working on Armchair Theatre , I was used to a certain style of drama , so when I saw the first Doctor Who script my first reaction was , after the first half hour , all we were left with was a lot of hairy-chested cavemen jumping around , grunting and going ‘ Ug ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The best place for Jed during all of this , she 'd decided , would be with his minder ; she 'd worked out a special weekend rate with Mrs Neary some time ago and had been working on her conscience ever since . |
| 21 | If they had been working on fruit trees they 'd come in much higher . |
| 22 | After all , he had been working on the theory for twenty years , and did not want to see himself scooped by an outsider . |
| 23 | She was convinced now that her husband had been working on a book about The Hell Fire Club and … |
| 24 | Now although I am a born sceptic , suddenly being brought face to face with a seemingly identical facsimile of what I had been working on did make me pause for a few moments ! |
| 25 | Dai 's family had been working on the farmlands around Rhydoldog for generations . |
| 26 | Jeopardy and Amber had been working on a piece which they intended to perform when Mandru returned home . |
| 27 | Before he answered it she slipped in a question about the length of time Shildon had been working on the assignment . |
| 28 | Erm and we 're talking about half a thousandth of an inch , and for that you know , the man , but when I investigated the case , the man had been working on these things for about three or four weeks . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | She had been so immersed in her anger and indignation that she had been working on automatic pilot herself . |