Example sentences of "we [verb] [been] work [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's what we 've been working for all season , ’ said the delighted Whitham , who now has his sights set on the international scene for 1994 , either in Superbikes or the 500cc Grand Prix series . |
| 2 | No Sally 's new at the job , we 've been working at this for for on on the technical front for some time , now let's just sit down and and work out what we 're gon na do . |
| 3 | Ian 's temperament is something he is working on and we 've been working on all the time , but he just seems to be getting maximum publicity at the moment . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ This is n't a sudden change of course — we 've been working on this for a long time and over the last five years have moved our portfolio towards lower cost exploration areas . |
| 5 | I mean , we 've been working towards all this for years , you know ? |
| 6 | ‘ We have been working toward this end . ’ |
| 7 | Because of our experience at Scone Park and in many other projects in the twelve years we have been working with young offenders , we , along with the other children 's charities , oppose the government 's proposals on persistent young offenders . |
| 8 | We have been working at improving race relations in Britain for over 30 years , under successive Governments . |
| 9 | Over the past few years we have been working on such an account , and in this paper we focus on the implications of this account for a central tenet of the mental models approach : that the mental model of the text so far provides ( part of the context for the interpretation of the current sentence or clause . |
| 10 | Recently we have been working on other corpora , including a 26-million word corpus , much larger than the LOB Corpus , but more restricted , in that it consists of newspaper reports . |
| 11 | ‘ We have been working on this project for 14 months , and it 's been difficult to persuade people that we have no political objectives . |