Example sentences of "i [verb] been work [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find myself alone with the steward who tells me has been working on this line for the past twenty-five years . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd been working on that right during training it was more of a natural reaction . ’ |
| 3 | In late August I was finishing my day at the heart clinic , where I had been working for several months , when I decided that it was time to go . |
| 4 | I had been working for more than an hour and my wrists ached from the continuous chopping , but I was filled with an immense exhilaration . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I 've been working on that part of my game and it came off tonight . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been working on this project for two years — two full years with God knows how many people involved . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been working on this for a couple of weeks now . |
| 9 | Because the way that I erm , I 've been working on this procedure and in fact I sense this too , and I have most of what was currently there for research project , project related sub-contracting , in other words sub-contracting with B P or if necessary , which I felt that more or less covered and what it was n't covering was when a Marie type situation on software , where I was going to put a different section , which is where the report , when it 's on research project related company facts , then I pay for the software . |
| 10 | I mean , dammit all , Charles has been working for 40 years and I 've been working for 22 ’ ) . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been working through all the Peter Carsons in the London directory . |
| 12 | ‘ The way you just came barging over just now — you could have blown everything I 've been working towards sky-high . ’ |
| 13 | I 'm erm I 've been working in low cost housing , housing charities , for a very long time , with Shelter and various other charities like that , and I never cease to be amazed that the Conservative Group , here or nationally , are hostile to subsidies for council housing , because the subsidy which goes to owner-occupiers , through mortgage tax relief , is very much greater than the subsidy that goes to council housing and there 's nothing we as a Council can do about this , but I do hope that in due course we will get a fair system of subsidising houses for everybody , so that wealthy people on high incomes who are getting a big subsidy on their housing through their tax relief , erm are not getting more than people on low incomes living in council houses . |
| 14 | Since giving up work to start my family , I have been working on two books — a novel and a cookery book related to my former job ( I was a home economist ) . |
| 15 | But I have been working on some things especially for Pierantozzi , and hopefully I will get a chance to try them out . ’ |
| 16 | I have been working on this book about the Prince of Palatine for over 25 years ; I 'll never finish it , but who cares , it 's interesting , especially since I can read seventeenth-century German which very few people can . ’ |
| 17 | In France , where I have been working for two years , the government understands the need for cultural things . |
| 18 | ‘ I have been working for 19 months and was on the dole for five years before that , ’ he said . |